Members,
Prime Minister’s Science , Technology and
Innovation Advisory Council
K Vijay Raghavan , Principal
Scientific Advisor
Dr V K Saraswat, Member NITI Aayog
Dr A S Kiran , Former Chairman , ISRO [ chairman@isro.gov.in ]
Maj Gen Madhuri Kanitkar , Dean Armed Force Medical
College , PUNE
Manjul Bhargava , Professor , Princeton University
Subhash Kak , Professor , Oklahoma State University
Baba Kalyani , MD , Bharat Forge
Prof Balram Bhrgava , Secretary , Health Research
/ balram.bhargava@gov.in
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Secretary , Atomic Energy
Secretary , Higher Education / SH. R. SUBRAHMANYAM
/ subra@gmail.com / secy.dhe@nic.in
Ajay Kumar Sood, Professor , Indian Institute of
Science
Sanghmitra Bandopadhyay , Director, Indian Statistical
Institute
Secretary , Science and Technology /
Prof Ashutosh Sharma / dstsec@nic.in
Secretary , Renewable Energy / Shri
Anand Kumar / secy-mnre@nic.in
Secretary , Environment / Shri Ravi
Shankar Prasad / ravis.prasad@nic.in
Dear Members of
PM – STIAC :
A technology revolution which will have huge impact on
our economy ( especially our “ Service Sector “ / E Commerce ) is wide-spread
use of DRONES
In this context , DGCA announcing our Drone Policy is a
welcome step
But technology has a habit of always overtaking Policy
!
Following is today’s example of Flying Taxies ,
For the rest , you may want to look up my
blog below
With regards,
Hemen Parekh /
Mumbai / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
/ www.hemenparekh.in /
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Drone – a – Charya
Economic
Times write about the INDIA DRONE POLICY ,
at :
Highlights :
Drones must only be flown during daylight and
maintain full visual line of sight at all times
Drones must not drop / discharge material without explicit clearance .
Drones must not be operated from mobile platforms like moving vehicles
Digital Sky is built around the principle of ‘No Permission-No Takeoff.’ Only if a drone is compliant with this
principle, can it even be registered.
Digital Sky will be in charge of handling flight permissions
A preflight permission request will contain
the geo-fence and timespan outside of which a drone cannot fly. The drone will not turn on if it does not have a
valid permission from Digital Sky
[ Source : https://can-i-fly.skylarkdrones.com/#/ ]
In probably a global first, India’s drone policy has introduced a
‘ No Permission- No Takeoff ’ (NPNT) clause.
It means drone hardware
have to be configured in such a way that unless regulatory permission is given,
the drone cannot take off.
Digital Sky has demarcated the Indian airspace into three distinct
categories: Red (no-fly zones), Yellow (restricted permissions), and Green (all
access).
MY TAKE :
I urge ,
· Shri B S
Bhullarji - DGCA [ dgoffice@dgca.nic.in ]
· proposed
Drone Regulator
· Drone
Federation of India [ info@dronefederation.in / http://dronefederation.in/ ]
to invite
comments from all the stakeholders on my following suggestions by publishing on
their respective web sites :
# Just
like today car manufacturers stamp , CAR ENGINE NUMBER and CAR CHASIS
NUMBER
, each drone ( coming out from the manufacturer’s factory ) , will have a
UNIQUE
, “ Drone Number “ ( which , manufacturer would obtain online from the
web
site of the Drone Regulator by
registering each “ Model “being shipped out )
# Each
drone would be embedded with GPS and Internet Connection ( Internet of
Things
) and will confirm to the ( planned ) protocol of the ( proposed ) National
Trusts
Centre for “ Machine-to-Machine “
communication / certification , in respect
of “ Security by Design “
[
Source : Telecom Commission to set up apex body for M2M
devices/applications ]
This
will ensure that no drone can take to sky unless the owner logs into the web
site
of the Drone Regulator ( using
a Mobile App ), and files its FLIGHT PLAN /
LOCATION
/ DURATION / HEIGHT / DRONE CATEGORY / PURPOSE etc and the
Regulator
Web site grants clearance for take off
# Web
site of the Drone Regulator will
continuously track / monitor the flight of
each
and every drone ( all over India ) on a monitor screen ( similar to tracking
of
Airplanes in an Air Traffic Control ( ATC ) room . Constant contact is the key
!
Call
this : Drone – A –
Charya [ Drone
Traffic Controller - DTC ]
Controllers
( sitting in DTC ) will have facility to immediately “ Ground /
Immobilize
“ any drone at any time , if security is about to be compromised or if
any
drone is flying outside of its “ Geo Fence “
Context :
# One
real serious concern is with regard to thousands of drones flying all over the
sky
of a metropolis and colliding with one another
I
urge the ( proposed ) National Trust Centre , to develop a software and make it
mandatory
for all drone manufacturers to pre-install
this software into the drones
,
before shipping out . This is described at :
This
condition will require all drone manufacturers ( local and foreign ) , to give
an
appropriate
“ Undertaking “ to the Drone Regulator .
Failure to
give such an
undertaking
will ensure that such drones are grounded / confiscated !
Permission
will not be granted to manufacturers of drones meant for war-like
activities
( dropping of bombs etc )
# Frequent
violation of the Flight Rules ,
should lead to “ Black-listing “
of any
particular
drone and it should be “ immobilized “ ( for varying periods , depending
upon
the frequency / severity of violation )
Context
:
After
all , many elements of “ Traffic Control “ on the roads , are also relevant to
traffic
control in the Sky ( especially when , say , 10 milion drones are flying )
# Drone
Regulator should announce clear rules in respect of :
· Insurance
[ crashing / hurting / damaging ]
· Scraping
/ re-selling / transfer / gifting of drones
· Registration
by new buyer
# Registration
Form ( filled online through mobile app ) should require following
data
:
· Buyer
category ( Individual / Commercial Company / Organizations etc )
· Aadhar No
/ PAN No / Mobile No
# Since
most drones would be deployed by E Commerce companies for delivering of
goods,
govt may consider “ pre-installing “ ( in the mobile app ), an ADDRESS
MAP , based on the technology developed by www.What3Words.com ,
which will
enable
better traffic control based on TRAFFIC DENSITY on different locations ,
apart
from ensuring precise delivery to 3 meter x 3 meter squares of India’s land
# There
will be many applications in which drone-mounted SENSORS ( including
cameras
/ mikes etc ) will be collecting / compiling , “ Personal / Private “ data of
persons
or things ( eg : Photos / Videos / Images etc )
Strict
law must be enacted that the owners of the drones cannot sell / share /
transfer
such data to any third party other than a party which has “ contracted “ for
such
data collection / compilation
A
very important “ Security Feature “ must ensure that the device ( drone ) by
itself
on
its own , does not transmit any data to the drone manufacturer nor to any
owner
/ licensee of an Operating System ( eg : Google’s Android / Apple’s iOS etc )
All
Mobile Apps which interact with a drone hardware or its embedded software (
including
Drone Operating System ), will need to be approved by Drone regulator
All
such “ Data Collection Contracts “
would require prior registration with the Drone
Regulator
, providing full details of the contract ( especially the nature of the data )
# Drone
Policy must take into account that within the next 5 years , there will be in
our
skies , “ Person Carrying Vehicles “ which may fall short of being classified
as “
Aircraft
“ . Such vehicles must be classified as “ Drones “ and be subject to Drone
Policy (
eg : Uber Lite aerial taxies )
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03 Sept 2018
www.hemenparekh.in /
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