RelmaTech looks to provide secure airspace management for small drones
Recent examples include drones disrupting the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, drones interfering with fire fighters in California and drones being used to smuggle contraband into U.S. prisons. All received widespread news coverage, as did the earlier episode when an out-of-control drone penetrated the security perimeter of the White House.
Such incidents will soon be a rarity when RelmaTech’s Secure Integrated Airspace Management system – SIAM – is adopted and deployed, according to Philip Hall, RelmaTech’s Founding Director and CEO.
SIAM offers a viable and robust answer to the critical issues confronting regulators and manufacturers responsible for ensuring the safety of low-flying Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). According to Hall, RelmaTech has initiated patent filing for SIAM and is now actively engaged in advising international regulatory bodies and major industry organizations of the system’s impressive operational potential.
“We have advised the International Civil Aviation Organisation RPAS Program Office in Montreal, and earlier this month conducted briefings to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in Washington DC and the UK Civil Aviation Authority in London. Those meetings were very positive with commitments for further discussions and demonstration of system capabilities.”
“SIAM represents an innovative integration of proven technologies and concepts used in civil aviation, online and mobile communications and information management,” Hall says. “It works in concert with existing transportation systems to ensure that small RPAS operations are safe for the full range of potential users – personal, commercial, institutional, corporate, government, civil service, national security and defence.”
SIAM, which uses state-of-the-art technologies to provide the ability to establish and enforce permanent and temporary No Fly Zones and to interface with control systems designed to simultaneously operate multiple RPAS, has been successfully migrated onto a Tier 1 global information technology and data management infrastructure.
“With SIAM, RPAS operators and aircraft can be identified and their permissions verified – and, where necessary, restricted,” Hall adds. “SIAM can determine whether the flight to be undertaken is restricted to Line of Sight or permitted for Beyond Line of Sight, and then oversee the flight accordingly. These and other capabilities, including separation assurance and collision warning, ensure that RPAS can be safely operated within an integrated managed airspace, making SIAM the enabler the drone industry has been waiting for.”
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