Steppe AgroHolding specialists have started testing a drone port, an autonomous station for basing agricultural drones that serve farmland, the company's press service reports. The device allows you to control the flights of quadrocopters remotely, from anywhere in the world with Internet access, without pilots leaving for a specific field.
Quadcopters are widely used in technological processes: with their help, they treat fields with plant protection products, monitor the state of crops, control technological processes, and conduct aerial photography of fields. Now drones are controlled by pilots from the ground, but with the introduction of drone ports, the process will be automated and centralized.
A flight task arrives at the droneport platform from the mission control center, after which the quadrocopter takes off autonomously, completes the task and returns to the base station for automatic charging. At this time, all received photo and video materials are remotely transmitted through the droneport to the data processing server. The droneport can be used all year round: it is sealed and maintains the required temperature.
The development of a droneport is a project of the Russian company Aeromax for the Agroholding STEP. Aeromax is also working on the creation of a domestic agricultural drone.