The Ministry of Transport of Russia and GLONASS have begun testing the Federal Navigation and Information System (FNIS). FNIS, based on the ERA-GLONASS state information system, forms a state digital platform for monitoring various types of transport: from scooters to buses and ambulances.
According to the Ministry of Transport, the project will become a new standard cloud solution on the unified digital platform "Gostech" and will be free for all regions of Russia.
Currently, as Alexey Raikevich, General Director of JSC GLONASS, said in an interview with RIA Novosti, five regions are planning to connect to FNIS, and at least 25 next year.
The system is being tested on 200,000 units of public transport in all regions of Russia, in particular, transport from Veliky Novgorod and the Novgorod region, as well as agricultural drones and drones with cargo in a number of regions.
As part of the testing, the connection to FNIS of public transport, ambulances and unmanned aerial vehicles is being worked out. Before the summer, the interfaces and functional blocks of FNIS will be finalized for the subsequent transfer of the platform to Gostech.
FNIS will give regions the following opportunities:
- connect online services for forecasting the arrival of public transport at stops in any locality in Russia;
- track online where and how ambulances are traveling;
- open the sky for civilian drones in regions where bans are in place;
- introduce speed limits for scooter riders with the establishment of slow zones;
- launch your own mobile applications or retransmit information to the Yandex.Maps and 2GIS services used.
The appearance of FNIS was announced in October 2023, and has already been tested in Moscow on scooters, successfully covering more than two hundred slow zones. FNIS became acquainted with drones and small aircraft in the southern regions of Russia in the closed sky mode during agricultural work. Flights of aviation equipment, including drones, are prohibited there, but those who were allowed to fly could confirm their route in the system.
