Giancarlo Zema Design Group to develop surveillance infrastructure for drone operations under new partnership

For­men­ton Secu­ri­ty Group (FSG) and XtraMedi­um Com­mu­ni­ca­tions have part­nered through their MySkaut ven­ture com­pa­ny with the Gian­car­lo Zema Design Group (GZDG) to design inno­v­a­tive urban fur­ni­ture for the Smart Cities of the future, capa­ble of man­ag­ing pub­lic and pri­vate secu­ri­ty by means of video sur­veil­lance drones.

UAM Inte­gra­tor and oper­a­tor MySkaut is nor­mal­is­ing com­mer­cial low alti­tude air­space ser­vices by mak­ing UAS capa­bil­i­ties rou­tine­ly acces­si­ble and afford­able to busi­ness­es and con­sumers.

The goal is to com­bine secu­ri­ty guard inter­ven­tion and inno­v­a­tive aer­i­al robot­ic safe­ty sys­tems with logis­tics struc­tures such as Ver­tiKo Smart Land­ing Pole for drones, designed by GZDG in Rome and built by SmartKo. 

The com­bined sys­tem max­imis­es secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions and cap­tures details often missed dur­ing after-event inves­ti­ga­tions. Tres­passers and poten­tial per­pe­tra­tors are mon­i­tored and tracked in real-time with­out caus­ing risk to a client’s oper­a­tion and staff.

GZDG, known for its eco-sus­tain­able projects, smart city design solu­tions and a pio­neer in the design of ver­ti­ports, solar-pow­ered roofs and smart­street fur­ni­ture, pro­vides a holis­tic approach, with the use of eco-friend­ly and human-friend­ly tech­nol­o­gy as the basis of its total design ser­vice.

In a short time, cities around the world will see more and more drones in their skies, both for freight trans­port and to ensure pub­lic and pri­vate safe­ty.

MySkaut will make all this pos­si­ble in terms of Cyber Secu­ri­ty and Man­age­ment Soft­ware also thanks to their back­ground with the inter­nal Urban Air Mobil­i­ty think-tank and con­sul­tan­cy — NASA AAM and FAA Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Advi­so­ry.

Now, with the coop­er­a­tion with the GZDG, the vertiport/vertistop and secu­ri­ty drone nest­ing struc­tures will also be devel­oped in an eco-sus­tain­able archi­tec­tur­al design to suit not only urban and sub­ur­ban areas but also pri­vate home secu­ri­ty.

In Jan­u­ary, GZDG unveiled its lat­est ver­ti­port design, fea­tur­ing solar pan­els devel­oped by Sola­pave UK which are capa­ble of gen­er­at­ing over 1.5 MW of wire­less elec­tric­i­ty to charge eVTOL air­craft.

The com­pa­ny entered the mar­ket last year with its Baobab ver­ti­port design with EHang, com­pris­ing an 80m diam­e­ter steel and glass struc­ture with an alu­mini­um pan­el cov­er that opens upwards, pro­tect­ing the land­ing plat­form from the wind. 

In March last year, EHang part­nered with GZDG to cre­ate the world’s first ful­ly eco-sus­tain­able ver­ti­port, which will be able to recharge its two-seater eVTOL air­craft.

The con­cept design is a 30m high tow­er which com­pris­es a steel and lam­i­nat­ed wood struc­ture, wait­ing room, cafe and a 200 sq m panoram­ic restau­rant and con­nect­ing lift.