Cable car (drone)

2023: Deliveries to India

India buys electrical drones from Russia to protect rare birds. This was announced in early August 2023 at the Laboratory of the Future company, whose interest in the products was shown by Indian customers.

We are talking about drones called "Cable car" for work on power lines. They will help in installing signal discs to protect birds, Pavel Kamnev, commercial director of the Laboratory of the Future, told reporters.

Drone "Tightrope"

This model is now being certified in India. Several Indian companies are already ready to purchase them for work in the country, - said Kamnev.

According to Kanmev, in India, unlike Russia, at the legislative level, a decree was adopted that 30% of all work on the diagnosis of power lines should be carried out using drones. After demonstrating the capabilities of the Cable Car to four major Indian power grid companies in May this year, they were "delighted with this technology," he said.

We manufacture these platforms for them and one of the areas of activity will be the installation of alarms for birds. There is a big problem in India. There is a very rare population of storks living only in the country, which is about 100 pieces. Birds die from electric shocks of power lines, to which they fly. To prevent this, Indian power grid companies install bird alarms every 15 meters - discs with reflective elements. To date, they are installing these disks manually. This leads to injuries and mortality among personnel, and 17 thousand kilometers of power lines is a huge amount of work, - said Kamnev.

He explained that the Laboratory of the Future has developed a special module that takes 10 such devices to the drone, automatically measures 15 meters and installs them on wires. This is enough to speed up the process and secure the personnel of power grid companies, he said.^[1]

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