04-07-2018, 08:53 AM
Drone Wars I - Update 7 April 2018.
From the Oz yesterday ...
National drone policy ‘vital’
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12:00amANNABEL HEPWORTH
With drones capable of transforming the delivery industry and even shuttling passengers, flight regulations are needed.
The fledgling drone industry is calling for a national policy dialogue to open up services ranging from robotic deliveries of packages to shuttling passengers.
Reviving discussion of retail giant Amazon’s idea of a “drone highway”, governments in Australia are looking at the role that drones could play in “final mile” deliveries of cargo, where ordinarily delivery vehicles have to battle choked-up roads.
Queensland’s Palaszczuk government, which will have Australia’s first drone strategy, has said it would investigate “drone zones” and its agencies are using the technology for applications spanning gathering intelligence during emergencies to taking film for marketing.
As well as freight delivery, the NSW government is looking at how drones could be used for rapidly dispatching emergency service personnel and equipment as part of its new Future Transport Strategy 2056.
NSW has told a Senate committee it is working with the federal government and other states and territories to review and establish policies on airspace management to enable a possible future of drone aerial mobility.
Meanwhile, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority — which regulates the safety laws for drones — is evaluating responses to an expressions of interest process for work on a “regulatory road map” for the integration of drones into the Australian airspace system.
The road map will look at areas including an “unmanned traffic management” system and “detect and avoid” technologies that would be crucial to allowing drones to avoid collisions while moving through the skies.
The focus is also on safety — an issue that was highlighted this week in Russia after a drone was making its first parcel delivery, but crashed into a wall.
Amazon has been an enthusiastic proponent of the potential associated with drone deliveries.
Google parent Alphabet’s Project Wing has trialled drone deliveries from Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez and from Chemist Warehouse.
Association of Certified UAV Operators president Joe Urli said that to be truly competitive Australia’s drone industry needed to be supported by a “well structured” national policy .
Mr Ulri said the sector faced competing state and territory and federal economic agendas, which did not provide the “foundation” for Australian entrepreneurs.
He said the association wanted governments to start talks on a national policy for remotely piloted aircraft systems through the Council of Australian Governments.
Nova Systems applied research lead, Terrence Martin, said there were a multitude of “technical and operational” considerations that would need to be addressed if drones were to be used for services such as parcel deliveries.
Dr Martin is also an adjunct professor with Queensland University of Technology and has undertaken research on integrating unmanned aircraft systems into national airspace, alongside unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management, in Australia, Singapore and the US.
“The big challenge is to safely balance the mix of platform reli ability and equipment necessary for safe separation, alongside the latency of the command and communications channels,” Dr Martin said.
CASA: (sic)..."for work on a “regulatory road map”
Hmm...the drone industry will want to hope the FF RRM for RPAs doesn't match the RRP for industry as the fledgling industry will be 'dead, buried & cremated' before it even gets a look at a road map - just saying...
Next a bit more on the 1st drone kill at the Gold Coast COM games:
Gun shoots down drone threat
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12:00amBERNARD LAGAN
With the security threat of drones a real concern for events such as the Games, a new combative device is welcome.
Australian police have been given a device that resembles a gun to “shoot down” drones using radio technology rather than bullets.
The kit will protect tens of thousands of spectators and athletes attending the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
The device, which looks like a large automatic gun, can disable any hostile airborne gadgets by cutting the signal from the operator.
It can target drones within a 2km radius and scramble any video feed being broadcast.
The interceptors were first used by Chinese police at a football match in March last year. As spectators streamed into the main Wuhan stadium in Hubei province, police brought down six drones with the devices. Chinese producers make most of the world’s commercial drones and Beijing moved early to create technology to counter the international fears over drone safety and the security threats they posed.
Peter James, the chairman of Drone Shield, the US and Australian-based maker of the equipment, said his device could override the GPS navigation information.
“What the gun does is either cut it so the drone doesn’t know where it is or it will take control of the GPS and send the drone back where it came from,” he said.
His company has been working over the past year to teach Queensland police officers how to operate the guns. Similar devices were used to protect the Boston marathon last April.
HTP (high tech purdy) 1 v Drones 0 - MTF..P2
From the Oz yesterday ...
National drone policy ‘vital’
12:00amANNABEL HEPWORTHWith drones capable of transforming the delivery industry and even shuttling passengers, flight regulations are needed.
The fledgling drone industry is calling for a national policy dialogue to open up services ranging from robotic deliveries of packages to shuttling passengers.
Reviving discussion of retail giant Amazon’s idea of a “drone highway”, governments in Australia are looking at the role that drones could play in “final mile” deliveries of cargo, where ordinarily delivery vehicles have to battle choked-up roads.
Queensland’s Palaszczuk government, which will have Australia’s first drone strategy, has said it would investigate “drone zones” and its agencies are using the technology for applications spanning gathering intelligence during emergencies to taking film for marketing.
As well as freight delivery, the NSW government is looking at how drones could be used for rapidly dispatching emergency service personnel and equipment as part of its new Future Transport Strategy 2056.
NSW has told a Senate committee it is working with the federal government and other states and territories to review and establish policies on airspace management to enable a possible future of drone aerial mobility.
Meanwhile, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority — which regulates the safety laws for drones — is evaluating responses to an expressions of interest process for work on a “regulatory road map” for the integration of drones into the Australian airspace system.
The road map will look at areas including an “unmanned traffic management” system and “detect and avoid” technologies that would be crucial to allowing drones to avoid collisions while moving through the skies.
The focus is also on safety — an issue that was highlighted this week in Russia after a drone was making its first parcel delivery, but crashed into a wall.
Amazon has been an enthusiastic proponent of the potential associated with drone deliveries.
Google parent Alphabet’s Project Wing has trialled drone deliveries from Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez and from Chemist Warehouse.
Association of Certified UAV Operators president Joe Urli said that to be truly competitive Australia’s drone industry needed to be supported by a “well structured” national policy .
Mr Ulri said the sector faced competing state and territory and federal economic agendas, which did not provide the “foundation” for Australian entrepreneurs.
He said the association wanted governments to start talks on a national policy for remotely piloted aircraft systems through the Council of Australian Governments.
Nova Systems applied research lead, Terrence Martin, said there were a multitude of “technical and operational” considerations that would need to be addressed if drones were to be used for services such as parcel deliveries.
Dr Martin is also an adjunct professor with Queensland University of Technology and has undertaken research on integrating unmanned aircraft systems into national airspace, alongside unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management, in Australia, Singapore and the US.
“The big challenge is to safely balance the mix of platform reli ability and equipment necessary for safe separation, alongside the latency of the command and communications channels,” Dr Martin said.
CASA: (sic)..."for work on a “regulatory road map”
Hmm...the drone industry will want to hope the FF RRM for RPAs doesn't match the RRP for industry as the fledgling industry will be 'dead, buried & cremated' before it even gets a look at a road map - just saying...
Next a bit more on the 1st drone kill at the Gold Coast COM games:
Gun shoots down drone threat
12:00amBERNARD LAGANWith the security threat of drones a real concern for events such as the Games, a new combative device is welcome.
Australian police have been given a device that resembles a gun to “shoot down” drones using radio technology rather than bullets.
The kit will protect tens of thousands of spectators and athletes attending the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
The device, which looks like a large automatic gun, can disable any hostile airborne gadgets by cutting the signal from the operator.
It can target drones within a 2km radius and scramble any video feed being broadcast.
The interceptors were first used by Chinese police at a football match in March last year. As spectators streamed into the main Wuhan stadium in Hubei province, police brought down six drones with the devices. Chinese producers make most of the world’s commercial drones and Beijing moved early to create technology to counter the international fears over drone safety and the security threats they posed.
Peter James, the chairman of Drone Shield, the US and Australian-based maker of the equipment, said his device could override the GPS navigation information.
“What the gun does is either cut it so the drone doesn’t know where it is or it will take control of the GPS and send the drone back where it came from,” he said.
His company has been working over the past year to teach Queensland police officers how to operate the guns. Similar devices were used to protect the Boston marathon last April.
HTP (high tech purdy) 1 v Drones 0 - MTF..P2