Unmanned aircrafts have become central to the functions of various businesses and governmental organisations. Increasing work efficiency and productivity, decreasing workload and production costs, improving accuracy, refining customer relations, and resolving security issues on a vast scale are a few of the top uses drones offer industries globally.
We're seeing development after development in this arena, with some exciting news stories cropping up. Here's some of them from this week:
SKYCORP files patent for ‘drone controlling device’ for internet of drones. Autonomous ecosystem builder SKYCORP has filed a patent submission with the European Patent Office, for its Internet of Drones enabling Drone Controlling Device. It looks to provide enhanced communications, locational intelligence, command and control and means that drones can now be traced when not operational - increasing safety.
According to U-Flyte, the pop-up UTM enables safe and responsible drone pathfinding to be computed in milliseconds and provides both strategic and tactical deconfliction as well as emergency event handling capabilities.
Great to hear groundbreaking and progressive improvement stories like these!
More freedom of movement in German aispace - DFS - From Thursday, 25 February, DFS Free Route Airspace will be available around the clock in the entire area of responsibility of the DFS Karlsruhe Upper Area Control Centre (UAC). DFS is offering direct routings to all its customers flying above 7,500 m. Aircraft taking these shortcuts save fuel and produce fewer emissions.
Oro Navigacjia started using new air traffic control system - On 26 February Oro Navigacija started providing air traffic control services within the airspace of Lithuania using a new air traffic control system. This system is an integral part of technological partnership under iTEC project.
DFS tests segmented approach in daytime at Frankfurt Airport - From 1 March 2021, DFS will test the use of the so-called segmented approach procedure for incoming flights from the south during daytime at Frankfurt Airport. The GPS-based procedure avoids large cities, which has the potential to reduce noise in the Frankfurt region.
Impact of COVID-19 hits FAB CE States hardest of all European regions - FAB CE - Airline traffic levels in the seven FAB CE States were on average close to 70% lower between September 2020 and the start of February 2021 compared to 2019, according to the latest figures from Eurocontrol, making this area of Europe the hardest hit, in terms of aviation activity, of any region in the continent.
Research and innovation
SESAR partners validate solution to delegate air traffic services - SESAR JU - Partners in the SESAR 2020 Project PJ.10-W2 PROSA have successfully validated a solution to delegate ATM services within a virtual centre environment. The validation made use of a pan-European infrastructure comprised of components of different vendors, demonstrating the feasibility of enabling Europe to move to an interoperable, cost-effective and flexible service provision infrastructure.
Novel pop-up UTM for Manna drone delivery programme in Ireland - Unmanned airspace - Irish research organisation U-Flyte, in collaboration with drone operator Manna Technical Team, has released a fully functional pop-up unmanned traffic management comprising airspace architecture and automated drone traffic management for Manna’s current Oranmore drone delivery test-site.
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