TOMSK, Nov 27 – RIA Tomsk. The market of unmanned air services in Russia, according to experts of the Siberian Center of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (ARF) is growing by 16.7% per year and by 2020 only within the Tomsk region will reach 542 million rubles, the press service of the regional administration reports on Tuesday.
Earlier it was reported that from July 2018 in the Tomsk region the federal project "Taiga" is being implemented, which involves the creation of an experimental area in the region for cargo delivery and the performance of other tasks using unmanned aircraft complexes. In August, the governor Sergei Zhvachkin, as well as representatives of the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia and the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects, signed a roadmap of the project until 2023.
"According to the Siberian Center of ARF, the market of unmanned air services in Russia is growing by 16.7% per year and will reach 542 million rubles by 2020 only within the Tomsk region. If overcome barriers, especially regulatory ones, this high-tech sector is waiting for explosive growth which will give a volume of more than 2 billion rubles to 2020", – is said in the statement.
It is noted that in the Tomsk region are being developed about 20 projects related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. The analysis shows that in the region there is a need to solve more than 130 tasks using unmanned aircraft: these are various types of monitoring and surveying (forest, fuel and energy complex infrastructure, roads, agriculture), as well as the delivery of light loads."Due to the existing technological and regulatory restrictions, no one yet performs the transportation of goods (by UAVs). Meanwhile, this functional service - is one of the most promising areas for the industry, as well as medicine and the banking sector, and the Tomsk region can first fully open the sky", – the press service quotes the head of the Siberian Center of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects Vladislav Sychkov.
The first stage of the project "Taiga" (market research, identification of needs, design) is calculated til 2019. In the future, it is planned to create on the territory of the Tomsk region ground infrastructure for UAVs: takeoff and landing platforms of aircraft-type vehicles, bases for storage and repair, dispatching, navigation and communications systems, is emphasized in the message.