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Bengaluru

Karnataka

Omnipresent Robot Tech

The government has made a grant provision of Rs 2.50 crore for implementation of these projects KJ George, Minister, IT

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Haveri district

Bantwal

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Pilot project launch forto watch over crowd behaviour, vehicular traffic in city; agriculture and urban development in districts under the ambit toois all set to have drones for police civic operations. On Thursday, a pilot project of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with demonstrative applications in three specific areas of governance was launched. The drones will be used for police civic operations, agriculture and urban development inwill implement the pilot project in a week in Bengaluru. The drones, as per DGCA norms, can fly up,to 200 feet above ground level and that they would be equipped with cameras ranging from 20 to 20.4 megapixelIn Bengaluru, these drones will be used for real time crowd monitoring and surveillance, as well as vehicular traffic surveillance and management. The pilot project will be carried out in the city over a three months.The implementation of the project will be coordinated by the police “For police civic operations in Bengaluru, we will initially deploy two drones and plan to scale up based on the demand. The drones can be used for monitoring crowd behaviour during an event and for traffic management or to detect vehicle speed, traffic violations and number plate recognitions,” said Aakash Sinha, CEO, Omnipresent Robot Tech.In, the drone project will have applications in agriculture. In Kasaba Hobli, drones will be used to cover an area of 200 sq km to assess the crop acreage, crop types, crop health and yield estimation.Similarly, a drone project for urban development will be taken up intown covering an area of 60 sq km to prepare a detailed base map to provide input for a master plan for systematic and scientific town planning.“The government has made a grant provision of Rs 2.50 crore for implementation of these projects,” said KJ George, Minister, IT and BT, Science and Technology at the launch.