With the sixth edition of HOMSEC 2017 ended, it is definitely consolidated as the main fair of the National Security sector in Spain. Between the 14th and 16th of March, this International Exhibition of Security & Defense Technologies took place on the fairground of IFEMA, Madrid. During this edition, the fair had a great attendance of around 15,000–16,000 people.
The popularity that it has been gathering from previous editions made it possible to make HOMSEC 2017 attendance so relevant: a prominent audience from the security sector and more than 180 corporations exposed, plus 40 delegations, of which 25 were from abroad: Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and so on.
It is not surprising the great impact of HOMSEC 2017 since the National Security sector greatly influences the Spanish economy: investments of 12% on R&D (Research and Development), 55,000 highly skilled jobs, and a great percentage of national export turnover are factors that confirm the strong relevance of this sector in the national economy.
This sixth edition of HOMSEC 2017 has been focused on new technologies and cybersecurity destined for National Security. They were exposed to innovations on border control and its access, defense cryptographic systems, UAVs, and UAS to support state security forces like the state-of-the-art TS150, simulators, and navigation devices such as Veronte Autopilot 1x.
Embention together with Everis at HOMSEC 2017
Embention participated in HOMSEC 2017 as an exhibitor, showing its new system TS150 with the collaboration of Everis. TS150 is a tethered station whose main feature is the anchoring of the UAV to the ground station through a cable. What stands out of this cable is its capacity to provide energy, data communication, and telemetry to the UAV, as well as video transference, permitting on this way to perform long-duration flights.
Specifically, it has been exposed together with the Alakran mortar carrier of NTGS (another member of Everis Group). This mortar system is able to be totally operational in around 67 seconds; it uses an automatic aiming system, GIS (Geographic Information System), and can operate in coordination with other Alakran units due to its BMS (Battle Management System). The Alakran and TS150 combination makes it possible to perform an increased impact control: NM&TS150 onboard cameras allow to monitor impact localization of artillery shoots and introduce shoot corrections on the system.
