About joint development with National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

Developing technology to strengthen drone communication safety~Providing encryption keys to drones from the quantum key distribution network and realizing safe flight control communications~

Prodrone Co., Ltd. (Representative Director: Masakazu Kono), in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Chairman: Masao Sakauchi) and Sun-E Trading Co., Ltd. (Representative Director: Yoshiyuki Sakano), has developed technology to strengthen the safety of drone flight control communications. By safely sharing true random numbers as a common encryption key between the drone and the ground station and encrypting control communications packet by packet, control takeover and information leaks are completely prevented. Furthermore, by loading multiple encryption keys onto a drone and delivering paired encryption keys to multiple ground stations via a quantum key distribution network, we have developed a secure control communication technology that guides the drone over a wide area while safely handing over flight control between multiple ground stations, and we have successfully conducted a demonstration experiment of this technology.

Regarding the commercialization of the above technology, we plan to introduce a flight guidance system in two years that will install a random number generator at the ground station, supply the encryption key to the drone after user/device authentication, and hand-deliver the key between the ground stations.

These results will be presented at the 4th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Communications (UQCC 2015), which will be held at Hitotsubashi Auditorium on Monday, September 28th.

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