What is U-space?
The European Commission expects that the global marketplace for unmanned aircraft or drones will create more than 10 billion Euros in economic impact each year by 2035. U-space is a set of new services and procedures designed to support safe, efficient and secure access to airspace for these large numbers of drones. U-space is capable of ensuring the smooth operation of all categories of drones, all types of missions and all drone users in all operating environments. It provide not only the framework for routine drone operations, but also an effective interface to manned aviation. ATM/ANS service provides and authorities. The services are based on a high level of digitilisation and automation of functions, either on board the drone itself or on the ground
alibration services are one of the costs to maintain NAVAIDs. We will be able to reduce maintenance costs by employing a drone for part of checking the ILS. As drone operator, by 2020 we will save 360’000 CHF per year. Reducing the flight frequency of conventional planes by using a drone instead leads to less noise emissions for the airport neighborhood as well as less CO2 emissions: up to 169 tons per year will be saved as of 2023.
SFO receives, amongst others, requests from drone operators, to fly varying and different types of professional missions such as photo missions, construction site monitoring, surveillance, transport missions, crop dusting or calibration flights. The flight for drones requests are increasing steeply which requires for skyguide to have new and more convenient solutions.
albris is a sensor-rich mapping and inspection drone with the widest camera breadth of any civilian platform. It was designed from the ground up to perform close inspections of bridges, buildings, and other structures with the goal of collecting high-resolution imagery and video. The fully stabilized TripleView camera head allows the operator to capture high-resolution still images on demand and also switch between HD and thermal video imagery live during flight. 
The AirMap platform includes a suite of security solutions for reliable identification, verification, and authentication of a drone in-flight via SSL/TLS certificates. Together with DigiCert, AirMap created Drone ID, the first-ever publicly-trusted digital certificate for drones.
AirMap allows for the instant authorization of drone operations by third parties based on contextual airspace rules designated by airspace authorities for a given jurisdiction. Flight plans identified as low-risk can be pre-approved for authorization with AirMap’s easy-to-use digital airspace management dashboard.
AirMap provides dynamic flight-planning capabilities based on airspace advisories, obstacles, weather, and nearby aircraft for real-time deconfliction and rules-based geofencing. Live telemetry is available for every flight, including positioning, flight path, takeoff and landing, distance, and altitude.
