Altitude Angel Arrow Towers Present Unprecedented Airspace Consciousness at Farnborough Airshow – sUAS Information

Arrow Towers deployed ‘behind the scenes’ at Farnborough Airshow to show enhanced airspace situational consciousness

A brand new “Detect and Keep away from” (DAA) platform which identifies and tracks drones and different plane, introduced one other dimension of security and safety to final week’s Farnborough Worldwide Airshow.

The Arrow ground-based DAA, deployed in partnership by NATS Providers, the industrial arm of the UK’s main air visitors providers firm and Altitude Angel, the world’s most trusted UTM (Unified Visitors Administration) expertise supplier, constantly monitored the airspace, notably plane working at decrease ranges.

Decrease-level visitors will be tough to trace utilizing conventional radar techniques, and Arrow has been developed by Altitude Angel to make sure security of all customers by detecting authorised and unauthorised visitors – together with drones.  It’s making ‘flying below the radar’ a factor of the previous. 

Authorities on the present had real-time entry to the information gathered by the Arrow towers; NATS and Altitude Angel have been capable of show the aptitude of the expertise.

Richard Ellis, NATS Head of New Airspace Customers, mentioned: “A pop up service like this one is a superb instance of how security will be achieved in very advanced environments the place non-cooperative drone exercise can have an actual affect on an airshow.  It’s a privilege to have the ability to show the aptitude of the Arrow expertise with the authorities at a premier occasion equivalent to Farnborough Airshow.”

Richard Parker, CEO of Altitude Angel, added: “Working alongside Farnborough Worldwide and NATS Providers over the course of a really busy airshow is nice validation of the efficiency – and vary – of the sensor and software program applied sciences we’ve developed.  The Airshow is a really busy airspace atmosphere, attended by crowds of a whole bunch of 1000’s; our Arrow towers, deployed in only a matter of hours, demonstrated a capability to offer important intelligence to the authorities, a service that may assist to safeguard very advanced occasions.”

The Arrow functionality, deployed within the Airshow grounds, collected information from a deployment of road-towable mast-based sensors to create a view of lower-level airspace inside Farnborough Airport’s flight restricted zone (FRZ) and past.  The infrastructure was utterly self-sufficient, together with era of its personal (photo voltaic) energy and a non-public communications community, solely requiring minimal house from the Airshow organisers. This image included real-time visibility of non-electronically conspicuous plane and drones, these which don’t carry conventional transponders, fused right into a single airspace image.

Alex Culley, NATS GM Farnborough Airport, mentioned: “Our focus in the course of the airshow is to make sure a protected occasion for guests and contributors and minimal disruption to our neighbouring airspace customers.  We’d like a sturdy and complete view of all visitors shifting out and in of the airshow and new expertise options might help improve security, safety, and operational effectivity throughout the airspace.”

In March 2024, NATS and Altitude Angel shaped a strategic partnership to allow aggressive and progressive providers to combine new airspace customers, whereas sustaining protected operations for its current industrial aviation prospects. The partnership may even speed up the roll-out of ARROW expertise, which when fused with Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM platform, detects and identifies all airspace customers, enabling drones to fly BVLOS and share the airspace with crewed aviation safely and securely.

About NATS   

NATS is the UK’s principal air navigation providers supplier and is cut up into two foremost companies, which give two distinct providers:

• NATS (En Route) plc (NERL) — the regulated enterprise, which supplies air visitors administration providers to plane inside UK airspace and over the japanese a part of the North Atlantic; and
• NATS (Providers) Ltd (NSL) — the unregulated enterprise, which supplies air visitors management providers at most of the UK’s main airports (15 civil and seven army airfields) and different airports abroad.

NATS supplies UTM, aerodrome, information, engineering, capability, effectivity and environmental efficiency options to prospects worldwide, together with airports, airways, air visitors service suppliers and governments.  

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