Skye Air Launched India’s First Traffic Management System for Drones: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari unveiled Skye UTM, which is the most cutting-edge unmanned traffic management system in the world, it can handle 96,000 flights daily and 4,000 flights per hour. Skye UTM is a Cloud-based aerial traffic management system that integrates unmanned air traffic with manned aviation airspace.
February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz
Skye Air Launched India’s First Traffic Management System for Drones- Key Points
- Skye UTM was developed to offer situational awareness, autonomous navigation, risk assessment, and traffic management to all aerial mobility operators throughout the area. Emphasizing new technologies in the construction, infra, and highway sector, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari informed that it is the right time for Indian drone startups to lead the industry.
- These drones are going to be used across sectors including construction, agriculture, healthcare, defense, infrastructure, surveying, real estate, and transport.
- Drone companies will even monitor highways and road construction. There is a lot of research happening that will certainly help scale its usage.
- The Ministry will soon invite participation from drone startups to be deployed for real-time monitoring and speed up highway constructions, and also keep a check on fatal road accidents.
- According to Ankit Kumar, CEO of Skye Air, the requirement for situational awareness has become a necessity for drone pilots, regulators, and controllers who need real-time information about the drones in the sky.
- More than 300 successful BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) drone flights have been facilitated by Skye UTM so far.
- The Skye UTM captures more than 255 parameters of UAV movements and stores them in its ‘Blackbox’ which is a published systematic description of the entire flight.
- The platform offers the first 3D view of the drone airspace, along with operations and regulations mapping servers which offer the latest airspace status, and verified paths, and display real-time UAV movements.