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Hwaseong of Gyeonggi-do and Jeju Selected as Drone Testing City... Full-fledged Operations from July, 2019
- Smart drone-based air quality, environment and safety monitoring... Also pursue regulatory reforms
□ A testing and substantiation project for using drones in urban areas such as for parking violation vehicle management, nighttime patrol, and environmental monitoring, etc. will begin from July of this year as a pilot project in Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do and in Jeju-do.
□ MOLIT (Minister Kim Hyun-mee) announced that it selected Hwaseong-si of Gyeonggi-do and Jeju-do as the drone testing cities following the 2019 drone regulation sandbox project invitation and that it had selected the project implementers for the designated contest and free contest.
ㅇ A total of 10 local governments applied for the drone testing city that was designed to promote the use of drones in urban areas.
ㅇ Hwaseong-si of Gyeonggi-do, which proposed a model for resolving environmental issues of industrial complexes using drones, and Jeju-do that proposed preserving tourism resource maintenance and offering safety services were selected.
□ Gyeonggi-do is planning to test the use of drones for checking for illegally parked cars and nighttime patrol in the city at Hwaseong, which has a high concentration of industrial complexes, and for monitoring waste company environments, monitoring construction site environments, and monitoring the air quality in industrial complexes.
ㅇ Jeju-do is planning to test various fields such as safety services at Olle-gil and English education cities, marine environment monitoring, and wintering crops and pine wilt disease monitoring, etc.
ㅇ As the test drone flight operations will be conducted in urban areas, thorough safety management plans will be established and pilot flight tests are scheduled for June.
□ Meanwhile, in the business designated contest aiming at promoting drone commercialization and increased usage of private companies, a total of 55 companies applied to eight fields in drone development and utilization such as testing of hydrogen fuel cell drones for long-term flights, multiple simultaneous mission tests to safely operate 150 or more drones simultaneously, etc., and eight companies were selected.
ㅇ In the free contest focusing on challenging technological development such as smart auto control drone parachutes, etc., a total of three companies were selected* to conduct tests in various fields that can enhance utilization of drones.
□ MOLIT will provide 1 billion KRW each to the two local governments selected, and 100 million KRW to 460 million KRW to the designated and free sector contest businesses to check the substantiation of outstanding drone technologies, while also pursuing regulatory reforms for early commercialization.
□ MOLIT Director General for Aviation Policy Eo Myeong-so said, “This drone project implementer contest is significant in that it promotes commercialization of relevant technologies within the actual city and to configure business models using drones. We will look for regulations that can act as obstacles to continue to make improvements.”
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