Rostec begins production of the protected mobile devices for business

Mobile Inform Group (MIG)  and JSC Aeronavigatsionnye i informatsionnye sistemy (the AIS, "subsidiary" of Rostec) at the beginning announced February, 2020 the beginning of production of the protected mobile devices for a corporate segment at the Kaluga plant of the cable equipment.

In the AIS joint project will invest 1 billion rubles (including own and borrowed funds), and MIG — more than 50 million rubles, Kommersant writes.

The subsidiary of Rostec will invest 1 billion rubles in development of smartphones and tablets for security officers

The industrial MIG S6 smartphone and the corporate MIG T8X tablet will become a basis for new gadgets.  Devices support operating Android systems 9 and 10 and also Russian Astra Linux OS and "Aurora". They "are expected long-term continuous operation" in difficult climatic conditions, will sustain falling and vibration. Devices are going to be provided with cryptographic and antivirus protection.

The first batch of gadgets will contain 2 thousand copies. Retail price of smartphones will be 60-90 thousand rubles, but at bigger order amount can be reduced, declared in  MIG. In plans of both companies — production more than 10 thousand gadgets for corporate clients. 

According to developers, the new equipment  transport and housing and public utilities will attract interest of security agencies, companies from spheres of health care, power and the oil and gas industry.

Demand for the protected devices is in the public and private sector, the chief executive of Artezio Pavel Adylin considers.

But the question is in as far as they will be convenient in terms of the user characteristics. If development significantly concedes to modern phones, people will refuse it — he notes.

According to the director of technology practice in risk consulting of KPMG in Russia and the CIS Sergey Vikharev, in terms of export of products of MIG and Rostec the speech can go about the friendly countries in geopolitical sense with the underdeveloped hi-tech sector.^[1]

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