Emitel S.A. strengthens its position on the Polish marketplace for the plan and construction of network infrastructure for unmanned aircraft. On the basis of the tender launched in 2024, the company built a network allowing monitoring of BVLOS drone flights (outside the pilot's sight range). The implementation of this task is simply a further step towards promoting the business sector of drone services in Poland.
Emitel believes that in the close future drones will become a regular part of the scenery over our heads and will be utilized to execute various commercial tasks. Therefore, for nearly a year, the company has been active in the preparation of a nationwide network infrastructure that allows for safe and consistent integration of "unmanned" (drone) flights with another aircraft (e.g. aircraft).
Emitel's Drone Labs task focuses on checking different scenarios for commercial usage of drones (e.g. cargo transport in the courier industry). The company besides does not close to working with partners; private entities (e.g. technological start-ups) and public entities (such as chambers and aviation agencies), specified as the latest implementation of the company.
Emitel engineers designed and built a network consisting of 2 hardware components: transponders mounted straight to drones, sending a wireless signal and terrestrial antenna receivers (so-called trackers) in flight, which receive and process the signal transmitted by transponders. Additionally, the network has peculiar software that synchronizes the work of transmitters and receivers. specified a network allows you to monitor the location of drones in the air in real time, as well as to collect and later analyse method data from the flight. The task covered as many as 8 locations (network) across Poland.
"Drones have tremendous commercial possible in sectors specified as logistics, agriculture, safety and health. In order to usage it, it is essential to make and integrate appropriate infrastructure. After more than a year of work on the Emitel Drone Labs task – thanks to tests and cooperation with many partners – we have developed a clear imagination of solutions that guarantee effective and safe execution of drone missions. We are pleased that we could usage this cognition in cooperation with national airports and thank you for your trust. The drone technology sector in Poland is developing intensively, which is why it is crucial to cooperate with businesses that drive the growth of the manufacture and public institutions that form its regulatory foundations." – said Jarosław Niebielski, manager of the Bureau of Regulatory and improvement of External Relations supervising the task of Emitel Drone Labs .
Emitel is constantly working on developing a business line focused on network infrastructure for drones. In September 2024 he completed the first 2 stages of drone mission investigating (flights with a circumstantial objective, e.g. cargo transport between 2 locations) outside the pilot's sight scope (BVLOS). Flights took place in a peculiar network built by Emitel specialists. During part of the flight, the drone with a burden of nearly 30 kilograms in just 5 minutes took the way that conventional ground transport (e.g. an off-road vehicle) would take under good weather conditions in over an hour. This example shows that drones will find a wide usage not only in business, but besides in medicine and rescue – due to the fact that if there was an AED defibrillator on board or an injection of insulin, life-saving aid would scope the victim as much as 12 times faster than the classical ambulance.
In 2025, the company will focus on investigating organisations, full autonomous flights, in which the drone performs the mission on a pre-set way without active pilot participation – it is flights in this model that are considered to be the future of, for example, the transport manufacture – their introduction will let to optimise the costs of courier companies and reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
Photo, source. Emitel
