Unifly, a bunch firm of Terra Drone Company and a number one supplier of Unmanned Plane System Visitors Administration (UTM) options, proudly declares its pivotal position within the €12 million EUREKA undertaking, initiated by the SESAR Joint Endeavor in June 2023.
Led by EUROCONTROL, this groundbreaking initiative goals to seamlessly combine air mobility into city landscapes by 2026, addressing the rising want for environment friendly, sustainable, and interconnected transportation options.
The EUREKA undertaking is ready to revolutionize city transportation by making a community of vertiports—specialised hubs for Electrical Vertical Take-off and Touchdown (eVTOL) plane inside European airspace, connecting city areas, and facilitating swift and eco-friendly transportation. 35 members embody Airport Suppliers, Air Navigation Service Suppliers (ANSPs), U-House Service Suppliers (USSPs), UAM producers and different stakeholders.
The undertaking focuses on growing 4 important SESAR options:
- Arrival/Departure Procedures to/From Vertiports: Encompassing route and trajectory planning.
- Vertiport Collaborative Visitors Administration: Optimizing useful resource utilization and capability allocation.
- Vertiport Disruption and Emergency Administration: Guaranteeing preparedness for unexpected circumstances.
- Vertiport Community Circulate, Capability & Operational Administration: Enabling environment friendly coordination throughout the vertiport community.
Unifly performs a pivotal position within the EUREKA undertaking, holding a singular place inside the Vertiport Collaborative Visitors Administration (VCTM) initiative, and leveraging its experience to combine vertiports into Unifly’s UTM resolution.
The undertaking will use licensed unmanned Vertical Take-off and Touchdown (VTOLs) plane for cargo operations to validate VCTM at strategic, pre-tactical, and tactical ranges, protecting all VTOL flight segments.
Validation and demonstration actions are deliberate between March 2024 and December 2025. The stay trial can be within the managed airspace between Mallorca and Menorca Islands (Spain), inside energetic LEPA and LEMH airports.
Andres Van Swalm, CEO of Unifly commented, “The EUREKA undertaking represents a big milestone within the evolution of UAM, and Unifly is proud to be on the forefront of this transformative initiative.
Our UTM options will contribute to making a harmonious and environment friendly airspace, laying the inspiration for the widespread adoption of UAM and revolutionizing the best way folks and items transfer inside cities.”
About Unifly NV
Unifly, a expertise firm deeply rooted in aviation, is dedicated to enabling and advancing the security and effectivity of autonomous aviation by way of cutting-edge expertise. The Unifly platform serves as an important hyperlink between authorities, drone pilots, and numerous stakeholders, facilitating the secure integration of next-generation plane into the airspace. By digitizing and automating Visitors Administration, and by integrating with drones and City Air Mobility (UAM), the platform is addressing the exponential progress in air site visitors generated within the upcoming many years. The corporate has a confirmed observe file of implementing UTM nationwide in additional than eight international locations, establishing it as a world chief on this trade.
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About Terra Drone Company
Terra Drone is a pioneering drone and City Air Mobility (UAM) expertise firm headquartered in Japan, with the mission to [Unlock “X” Dimensions], making a affluent future by “crossing” bridges by integrating numerous fields to foster innovation and discover options. Its proprietary, patented applied sciences in drones, sensors, and software program are the inspiration of the specialised options—starting from surveying and inspections to pesticide spraying—which might be revolutionizing key industries together with oil and fuel, building and engineering, chemical substances, electrical energy, and agriculture on a world scale.
In July 2023, Terra Drone acquired a majority stake in Unifly, a world-leading supplier of Unmanned Plane Methods Visitors Administration (UTM) methods, having a confirmed observe file of implementing its system on a nationwide degree in over eight international locations. Terra Drone’s ambition is to develop complete options for drones and UAM, with the overarching purpose of creating a digital infrastructure within the skies to maximise the potential of air mobility.
For extra data, please go to our web site: terra-drone.web