Global drones-as-a-service provider RocketDNA Ltd (ASX: RKT), has obtained approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to operate remote autonomous drone solutions in Australia.
CASA is the national regulator in Australia who maintains oversight and provides approval within the civl aviation industry, including commercial drone operations. RocketDNA has undergone a thorough approval process with CASA which includes assessment of processes including RocketDNA’s remote operating centre in Perth WA, and deployment and operational risk assessment (SORA) methodology and policies, as well as demonstration to CASA of autonomous drone operation.
Approval was received from CASA for two autonomous drone systems (DJI Dock System and Hetronics Global Drone Station) to be used by RocketDNA, which includes Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights. RocketDNA is the 1st company in Australia to receive approval for the DJI Dock System.
The approvals allow for RocketDNA to provide its customers with automated operational workflows using drones and AI. RocketDNA has already developed three X-Bot (Drone-in-a- box) branded product offerings:
- InspectBot | RocketDNA
- PatrolBot | RocketDNA
- SurveyBot | RocketDNA
We have been busy over many months preparing our autonomous drone products for releases which we now have CASA approval for and which coincides with DJI releasing in the market its DJI Dock System,” RocketDNA CEO. Christopher Clark, said.
“Key elements of approval include for our remote operating centre, BVLOS flights at authorised sites in Australia and, methodologies and policies. Future approvals will be faster, more efficient and form part of business as usual as we look to deploy our ‘drone-in-a-box’ solution on customer sites.
“The idea is that we can create safer and more sustainable work environments by using our autonomous drone-based, remote geo-data solutions; keeping teams out of dangerous environments as well as a multitude of use cases we see our mining customers showing interest in.
“Led by the arrival of the highly anticipated DJI Dock, as a company, we now have various applications for data collection possible to be conducted remotely. We have already deployed our first DJI Dock to a customer site (gold mine) in Western Australia, where the team will begin implementing autonomous flights into existing operations.”
