It’s been a year since the SAFIR-Ready Project kicked off, and the progress is nothing short of impressive. Funded by the European Commission and part of SESAR 3, it aims to revolutionise emergency medical and critical infrastructure responses in Europe through the use of advanced drone and U-Space technologies. After one year, SafeSky has made significant contribution to the project by integrating manned aviation traffic information with drone operations, providing a unified situational awareness.
SafeSky’s role in SAFIR-Ready.
SafeSky’s contributions are twofold:
First, we’re working to seamlessly integrate manned general aviation at low altitudes into the medical drone ecosystem. At the same time, we’re ensuring that drone mission traffic is also accessible to general aviation pilots.
Second, we are sharing our experience in merging diverse additional traffic information from partner data, including ground station data and secondary radar with ADS-B. This integration provides a comprehensive view of both manned and unmanned traffic.
With our extensive experience in aggregating and harmonising multiple traffic sources, SafeSky acts as a key expert in the project.
Milestones and Challenges.
One major challenge is ensuring the safe coexistence of manned and unmanned aviation, where a standard is still missing. SafeSky has made great strides in making previously invisible low flying traffic—like paragliders, paramotors, ultra-lights and even drones—visible, and we’re excited to bring this expertise to the SAFIR-Ready project.
Over the past year, SafeSky has successfully delivered APIs that feed the project from our traffic system.
Next, we will incorporate drone traffic data into the SafeSky traffic to enhance general aviation situational awareness.
Stay tuned for more updates on how we’re advancing aviation safety and emergency response.
For more information on SAFIR-Ready, visit the SAFIR-Ready website. For information on SafeSky’s drone integration, visit the SafeSky website.
SAFIR-Ready project partners 🤝 :
Helicus (Coordinator), HUSI (Hellenic U-Space Institute) (Communication Lead), Airbus Defence and Space, Safran, Cranfield University, EHang (NASDAQ: EH), KPMG, Aerocom Belgium, Delft University of Technology, SkyeBase, AgentFly Technologies, Airial Robotics, ANRA Technologies, Avercon, Avy, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Droniq GmbH, Estonian Aviation Academy , FLYING-CAM, Flyvercity, Frequentis, Hepta Insights , HyFly, ifly, INVOLI , Royal Military Academy, Belgium, Egis, LuxMobility , MANTA Aircraft, NSX - Normalized Systems, RigiTech, SABCA-UAS, SafeSky, SKYCORP Technologies, and UZA.
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