Telefónica designs an autonomous drone fleet management solution for safety

The solution of Telefónica Security Engineering (Tis), designed together with your technology partner Unmanned Life, will be presented in a session at the Agora of Telephone during the celebration of the Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona.

Telefónica Security Engineering (Tis), company of the Telefónica Group, with Unmanned Life, have developed an innovative management solution autonomous drone fleets from a single, centralized platform to carry out security tasks, vigilance, event verification and maintenance of critical infrastructures.

This development will be presented in Mobile World Congress (Mwc) 2022, to be held in Barcelona del 28 from February to 3 March, and will star in the session that will take place in the Agora of the Telefónica stand, the next 1 March, Entitled The future is here, Telefónica's Headquarter Drone Protection, and in which you can see the operation of the solution live.

Specifically,, this solution allows to program an autonomous flight zone in which several aircraft are able to identify events through Analytical, With artificial intelligence (The), integrated into the platform, such as the detection of unauthorized persons at that site.

Additionally, it also sends the images in real time thanks to the 5G connectivity for analysis. All this complying with the aeronautical legal requirements of drone flight and privacy established.

In addition, offers the ability to integrate the event verification function so that drones come to inspect the place before any alarm and, In addition, to detect, identify and neutralize drones. As a result,, this solution can detect aircraft at a distance of up to 10 Km. and neutralize them when they are identified as a threat at a distance of approximately 1,5 Km.

Telefónica Ingeniería de Seguridad's solution is designed especially for companies that lack specialized personnel in these surveillance and security functions or for those that want to assign their human teams to the performance of other tasks of greater added value..

Its implementation generates important efficiencies of time and up to the 35% in operating costs, based on the data provided by the company, since drones do not need piloting.

The Unmanned Life platform, hardware agnostic, can work with any type of drone. Telefónica Ingeniería de Seguridad carries out technological consultancies for the customization of the drones that best suit the needs of customers, taking into account the sensorization, autonomy, operation, environment, payment charges and any parameters that may be involved in the operation.

To demonstrate its benefits and capabilities, a deployment of the solution has been carried out at the headquarters of Telephone District in Madrid, a highly complex environment from the point of view of the regulation due to its proximity to airports and heliports.

That's why, the drones that are used have a dimension of 1,20 meters and have advanced security systems so that, if any unforeseen event arises, such as loss of connectivity or inhibition of communications, can land in a controlled manner.

Also, drones have an autonomy of 45 minutes and, after this time, aircraft are automatically routed to a nearby charging station to be powered by 30 Minutes.

This security solution is a pioneer nationwide, Telefónica District being the first corporate headquarters to deploy it, after obtaining all relevant authorisations from the State Aviation Safety Agency (Aesa) to carry it out with all the guarantees.

As you point out Fabian White, president and CEO of Telefónica Ingeniería de Seguridad, "With this solution we not only cooperate with the most technologically pioneering companies., but we also offer our clients a consulting role for everything related to the management of drone flights and compliance with their regulatory requirements in areas as important as privacy".

for Jorge Muñoz, Vp. Unmanned Life Business & Marketing, "It is a great first step and a concrete result of our partnership with Telefónica. This innovative product is unique in its style, will mark a reference in the market and allow to demonstrate that it is a safe technology that presents concrete benefits to users. Together we are building an autonomous future that will improve safety and inspection work in an optimal way, safe and sustainable".

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