GMV develops Dronelocus® for U-Space management and security

In 2018 GMV was chosen by Spain’s air-navigation services provider, ENAIRE, to provide tracking, emergency-management and GNSS-performance-forecasting services for navigation and surveillance within the DOMUS project.

DOMUS is one of the six European projects selected by the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program for demonstration of U-Space services for Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM).

Growing from GMV’s participation in this project, as well as it increasing involvement in drone-use and -management programs, GMV has developed the U-Space product family, Dronelocus^®, aiming to come up with a response to the problem posed by the growing number of civil unmanned aircraft likely to be sharing the airspace in the near future.

U-Space focuses on the management of low-level flights at an altitude of less than 150 m in both built-up and open-country environments. Under this overall remit the Dronelocus^® tracking service taps into various sensors fitted on the drones for positioning-data processing and then records this data. It thus becomes a powerful support tool for looking into any type of accident or incident, by analyzing the flightpaths previously recorded in the system.

The Dronelocus^® Emergency-Management Service, for its part, in combination with the tracking service, then takes on responsibility for drone operation alerts, automatically sending notifications to the authorities that be. This service also allows for setting up ad-hoc airspace drone restrictions around the emergency-affected area (e.g. a road accident, fire, safety zones, etc.).

These performance features help drone operators to abide by established restrictions, including special operators cleared to carry out missions in restricted zones.