Unifly, a gaggle firm of Terra Drone Company and a number one supplier of Unmanned Plane System Visitors Administration (UTM) options, proudly proclaims its pivotal position within the €12 million EUREKA challenge, initiated by the SESAR Joint Enterprise 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 challenge is about 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 individuals embody Airport Suppliers, Air Navigation Service Suppliers (ANSPs), U-House Service Suppliers (USSPs), UAM producers and different stakeholders.
The challenge focuses on creating 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: Making certain preparedness for unexpected circumstances.
- Vertiport Community Movement, Capability & Operational Administration: Enabling environment friendly coordination throughout the vertiport community.
Unifly performs a pivotal position within the EUREKA challenge, holding a novel place throughout the Vertiport Collaborative Visitors Administration (VCTM) initiative, and leveraging its experience to combine vertiports into Unifly’s UTM answer.
The challenge will use licensed unmanned Vertical Take-off and Touchdown (VTOLs) plane for cargo operations to validate VCTM at strategic, pre-tactical, and tactical ranges, masking all VTOL flight segments.
Validation and demonstration actions are deliberate between March 2024 and December 2025. The reside trial shall be within the managed airspace between Mallorca and Menorca Islands (Spain), inside lively LEPA and LEMH airports.
Andres Van Swalm, CEO of Unifly commented, “The EUREKA challenge represents a major 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 muse for the widespread adoption of UAM and revolutionizing the way in which folks and items transfer inside cities.”
About Unifly NV
Unifly, a know-how firm deeply rooted in aviation, is dedicated to enabling and advancing the security and effectivity of autonomous aviation via cutting-edge know-how. The Unifly platform serves as an important hyperlink between authorities, drone pilots, and varied stakeholders, facilitating the protected 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 a long time. 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 business.
For extra info, please go to the web site at Unifly.aero or contact us at press@unifly.aero.
About Terra Drone Company
Terra Drone is a pioneering drone and City Air Mobility (UAM) know-how 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 muse 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 compounds, 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 Programs Visitors Administration (UTM) methods, having a confirmed observe file of implementing its system on a nationwide stage in over eight international locations. Terra Drone’s ambition is to develop complete options for drones and UAM, with the overarching goal of creating a digital infrastructure within the skies to maximise the potential of air mobility.
For extra info, please go to our web site: terra-drone.web
