UNVEX is the event chosen by ITG to present the latest technical advances of its DroneSuite® platform and how it solves the rest of the operations in critical infrastructures such as port areas, transport networks, energy production infrastructures, communications or governmental facilities.
Initially designed to facilitate the management, operation and administration of the normal activity of a drone operating company, it has gradually incorporated important technological advances and adaptations to specific sectors of activity.
Drones in the air for as long as possible
The daily activity of a drone operator in a high flight density scenario involves efficiently managing large fleets of drones to keep them in the air for as long as possible, automating as many tasks as possible.
DroneSuite® is a tool with a modular structure in which its operation execution module is fully integrated with UgCS to provide the best response in advanced mission planning and unified flight control; a fleet manager that facilitates the control and monitoring of assets (drones and associated equipment) and the pilots of the operating company involved in each mission; the operations manager that allows the operations to be planned and designed in the office; data processing where the captured information is exploited, analysing and studying the necessary aspects through the different tools integrated in the platform; the generation of reports with graphic and documentary presentation of the analysed and processed results; and an administration module for the performance of different generic tasks for the operator.
Critical infrastructure management
At stand C03, ITG engineers will present how DroneSuite® solves the challenge of multiple and simultaneous drone operations in this type of scenario. Three technical innovations make this possible. Firstly, the incorporation of multi-user profiles to manage the activities of external third parties makes it possible to control all activity with own or third-party drones, in all phases: approval, real-time monitoring and subsequent validation.
Secondly, the platform has evolved to be able to identify all types of unmanned vehicles (including waterborne), certifying controlled access and the safe and efficient coordination of all types of vehicles. And finally, the integration of U-Space services in which ITG is a widely recognised USSP provider through its Daliah® platform is already in the testing phase.
ITG, a benchmark in drone technology
The ITG technology centre is one of the relevant agents in Europe for research and development in the drone field, developing technologies for the automation and safe integration of operations in urban environments. It leads working groups in EUROCAE (European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment), EUROCONTROL (European Network of U-space Demonstrators) and AME (Alliance for New Mobility Europe), and has participated in major European demonstrators such as H2020 AMU-LED, which in September 2022 involved a pioneering test of an unmanned air taxi service in Galicia, or U-ELCOME, currently underway.
At a national level, ITG is a centre of excellence in Intelligent Transport research with unmanned aerial systems, developing this technology defined as strategic by the Ministry within the framework of the Cervera Programme supported and financed by the CDTI (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology).
It also manages a pioneering infrastructure in A Coruña called Galaxy-Lab: an advanced laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity and robotics applied to drones that provide services to national and international companies that need to experiment and test their urban aerial mobility systems for goods or people, both in the early stages of their R&D or as a step before the certification and commercial operation of their products. A test centre in A Coruña that works in a coordinated and complementary way with other infrastructures such as the Rozas Airborne Research Centre in Lugo, or with Ancora Drone Test Center, a test centre specialised in light UAVs managed by ITG on the coast of Lugo, which has unbeatable conditions for integration and validation tests of coordinated land-air-sea operations, flights beyond the pilot’s line of sight (BVLOS) and night flights.