At TUS Nordics 2017, Ronni Winkler Østergaard gave the presentation ‘The future of drone traffice management, applied today’ in The Future of Unmanned track, on Thursday 12 October 2017.

1. TUS Nordics 2017
12th October

2. Safety is the
most urgent
challenge.

3. Stakeholders

4. Safe supervision
Increasingly complex
Airspace legislation
Loca$l Regulations
No drone zones
Wildlife protection
Privacy areas
Densely populated areas
….
Manual
Auto
Airport
Local authorities
Police
Can I fly?
• Yes
• No, because …
Professional drone users
Recreational drone users
Automated drones
INFORMATION VALIDATION NOTIFICATION

5. Intuitive and user friendly

6. Intuitive and user friendly

7. Key functionalities

8. Collaboration
is key.

9. UTM Architecture

10. Some of our UTM partners

11. The European vision
• Safe: safety at low altitude levels will be just as good as for traditional manned aviation. The
concept is to develop a system similar to that of Air Traffic Management for manned aviation.
• Automated: the system will provide information for highly automated or autonomous drones
to fly safely and avoid obstacles or collisions.
• Up and running by 2019: for the basic services like registration, e-identification and geo-
fencing. However, further U-Space services and their corresponding standards will need to be
developed in the future.
• U-space will be established with U1 by 2019
• SESAR demonstrations of the initial U-space
services and first results from SESAR research
and development projects, will pave the way for
the roll-out of U-space (U2-U4).

12. The European vision
• U1 - e-registration, e-identification and geofencing.
• U2 - management of drone operations, flight planning, flight approval, tracking, dynamic
airspace information, and procedural interfaces with air traffic control.
• U3 - complex operations in dense areas, capacity management, assistance for conflict
detection. automated DAA functionalities and reliable communication.
• U4 - integrated interfaces with manned aviation, full operational capability of U-space,high
level of automation, connectivity and digitalisation for both the drone and the U-space system.

13. Projects
EASA RMT.023, European Commission, JARUS SCB, SESARJU, EuroCAE WG-105
Expert groups
• Horizon 2020 – Galileo-1-2015 ‘SKYOPENER’
The integration of BVLOS drone flights in Switzerland using satellite communication in which
UNIFLY is used as the Drone Traffic Management platform.
• H2020-SESAR-2016-1: Exploratory research
§ CORUS : CONOPS for UTM – lead by Eurocontrol
§ CLASS : Realtime tracking capabilities of a UTM – Lead by Airbus
§ SECOPS : Security Conops for UTM - lead by NLR
• SESAR-VLD1-10-2016 : Very Large Demonstration
§ PODIUM: Live demonstrations of UTM with 4 different scenarios in Toulouse and Brétigny in
France, in Odense in Denmark and in Eelde in the Netherlands.

14. Our history
F+, VITO & Luciad
visualize the initial
idea in the VLOC
concept
Completion A-series
funding 5.1 mio €
Founding of
Unifly
Runner-up prize at
the SWIM Masterclass of
2014
Completion first
VC round
1.2 mio €
First offices abroad
open in the US and in
Denmark
2012
-
2014
2015
2014 20172016
2016

15. Thank you for
your attention

16. Flight viewer film