Mobile carrier and government jointly developing a system to track and monitor drone using mobile phone base station

It is a topic drones because there is no legal regulation on flight in addition to being able to fly easily anybody, but in the United States where the argument does not deepen because of various troubles such as vertical division administration,NASAIs developing a large-scale air traffic control system that tracks private drones using cellular base stations to ensure safety.

Nasa and Verizon plan to monitor US drone network from phone towers | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/03/verizon-nasa-drones-cellphone-towers

NASA is developing a large drone monitoring system that tracks commercial and private drone, and NASA 's largest mobile communication company, Verizon, participates in NASA' s air traffic control system development plan for drone, and uses the cellular base station He agreed to doThe GuardianIt reports.

NASA has been working with NASA since 2014Ames Research CenterIn the Moffet · Field Airfield managed by,Development of air traffic control system to manage droneI did it. In addition, Moffett Field Field is near the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, and Google is said to be developing drones in this airfield.

In addition, you can understand at what point the level of the drone which NASA is developing independently by looking at the following article in one shot.

GL-10 airplane capable of vertical take-off and landing / horizontal flight equipped with 10 propellers succeeded in test flight - GIGAZINE


NASA has been developing an air traffic control system for drone over 500,000 dollars (about 60 million yen) so far, but due to Verizon participation this time Verizon has over 10,000 mobile phone bases owned by Verizon We plan to jointly develop a private drone tracking and monitoring technology that can utilize stations. The drone air traffic control system utilizing mobile phone base stations communicates with up to tens of thousands of drones in real time, so as to avoid conflicts in the air between drones, instruct the individual drones of the flight route I can send it. According to Verizon, it is said that ultimately the system will be completed by 2019.

In the United States, the drone control law by FAA is still uncertain, so NASA is actively pursuing partnerships with private companies rather than the US government, and in addition to VerizonAmazon developing aerial delivery using droneAndGoogle trying to build a mobile communication network with droneWe also have a partnership with NASA.


It is because the drones are considered to be a very promising market in the future in the United States because they are promoting dragon environments of the public and private sectors, such as NASA, Google, Amazon, and Verizon. In anticipation of "the future to fully utilize the drone" which will be visited, America is steadily proactively stepping forward to lead the drones market of a huge world.

On the other hand, in Japan, discussions on drone are actively being triggered by the incident of the drone crashing down to the Prime Minister's official residence in April 2015, but the discussion is headed toward "one-sided regulation". The current aeronautical law has no restrictions on the way Drone operates and there are no clear rules on drone flight, so the government is planning to submit a revised draft amendment to the current Diet Law, but the content is " We prohibit the flight such as banning the principle of flight at "," ban on night flight "and" introduction of drone flight licensing system ".


However, there are administrative agencies that do not comply with government drone restrictions. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is concerned that Japan may be left behind in the development competition of drone which can become a huge market if the drone operation restrictions are done, and it seems that it is a policy opposite to strengthening unilateral regulation to drone It is done.

"Drone regulation is nonsense" impatient Ministry of Economy and Trade In this way Fuel Cell Vehicle Nobimai ...: Isa!
http://www.iza.ne.jp/kiji/economy/news/150603/ecn15060311300001-n1.html

As a result of the fact that Japan has overtaken and overtaken by the world's countries unexpectedly due to the laws and regulations in the field where Japan is technologically leading the world in the past, Japan has lost a huge market and as a result has lost its national interests Recalling the bitter experience of saying, the regulation of the drone can have the same result.

Of course there is no doubt that we can not keep public safety and privacy in the state of unconditional without clear rules on Drone's flight. However, there is no doubt that excessive regulation will pick up promising industrial sprouts and it will be disadvantageous for the people in the future. I would like to expect positive deepening discussion on how dolone flight should be done in Japan and the private sector jointly.