Skye Air Mobility, a Gurugram-based drone delivery company launched Skye UTM—an unmanned traffic management system for drones.
Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Roads and Highways, attended the event as well.
UTM or Unmanned Traffic Management, is a cloud-based traffic management system that connects and converses with all kinds of drones from survey drones, delivery drones to aerial taxis.
Skye Air’s CEO, Ankit Kumar, remarked that with the increased adoption of drones and other aerial vehicles by various end users, the number of drones in the sky is increasing massively. The requirement for situational awareness has become a necessity, and drone pilots, regulators, and controllers need real-time information about the drones in the sky. Skye UTM is a game-changer in this regard, providing situational awareness to both regulators and pilots by digitally establishing communication with the drones and connecting traffic across the airspace. The nature of its autonomy helps to have real-time tracking and awareness
Skye UTM has supported over 300 BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) drone flights. It captures more than 255 parameters of UAV movements and stores them in its Blackbox. The platform offers a three-dimensional view of the drone airspace along with operations and regulations mapping servers, offering the latest airspace status and verified paths, displaying real-time UAV movements.
At the Skye UTM launch, Nitin Gadkari emphasised the potential use of drones in various sectors, from Agriculture, Healthcare, Defence, Infrastructure, Surveying, Real Estate, and Transport to even monitoring Highways and Road Construction.
