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Demonstration of Over 25 Drones Working Concurrently Marks a Important Step in European U-House Implementation
On December 1, 2023, Benidorm, Spain hosted a drone flight occasion designed to maneuver drone integration and U-House implementation ahead. This occasion featured greater than 25 drones working concurrently in an city surroundings, marking a primary for each Spain and Europe. The demonstration was a part of the U-ELCOME challenge, led by EUROCONTROL, which aimed to implement the U-House idea throughout Europe. The challenge was funded by the European Fee and coordinated by the Universitat Politècnica de València within the Valencian Group.
The U-House idea concerned managing varied duties concurrently, together with the supply of products and parcels, emergency help, rescue, surveillance and inspection, medical materials supply, and first support operations. The demonstration happened in three international locations: Spain, Italy, and France, with 51 companions from private and non-private entities and corporations taking part.
The Benidorm Metropolis Council expressed robust assist for the challenge. The demonstration aimed to validate the primary U-space providers and gather consultant information to optimize and lay the foundations of this new idea of automated and digital administration of routine drone operations in particular areas, generally known as U-space airspace.
Greater than 25 drones related to 3 U-space service suppliers (USSPs): Airus (ITG – Instituto Tecnológico de Galicia), Aslogic, and Spain’s air navigation service supplier, ENAIRE, operated through the demonstration. These USSPs had been interconnected via the ENAIRE U-Hub platform, facilitating the change of operations data among the many three USSPs taking part within the demonstration.
The drone operators concerned represented a wide range of sectors, all aiming for full integration inside U-space. These included members of the State Safety Forces and Corps: Air Assets of the Nationwide Police Corps of Alicante, Valencia, Castellón, and Murcia, the PEGASO crew of the Civil Guard of Alicante, the Autonomous Police of the Generalitat Valenciana, and Native Police Corps of Benidorm, Valencia, La Nucia, Finestrat, Villajoyosa, Campello, Elche, Altea, Jávea, Denia, Gandía, Cullera, and Paterna.
Amit Ganjoo, Founder and CEO of main UTM and U-House expertise supplier ANRA Applied sciences, commented on the occasion, saying, “We’re glad to see U-ELCOME advancing U-space actions and stay up for when the challenge continues with different deployments in Italy and France within the coming months. U-ELCOME is a big consortium with 51 companions, so will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the varied entities are in a position to reveal pre-operational U-space ecosystems in varied operational environments. The challenge highlights the query: which entities are getting licensed by aviation authorities to turn into U-space Service Suppliers so U-space will be commercialized?”
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