As a part of as we speak’s dronePORT opening in Hamburg, HHLA Sky, a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), offered its options for environment friendly drone operations in Hamburg. The dronePORT Hamburg is the primary location for unmanned aviation and cellular sensor know-how and was opened as we speak by the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), the Hamburg Police and Hamburg Aviation. The dronePORT is the primary floor infrastructure of its variety in Europe.
HHLA Sky gives drones for inspecting the Port of Hamburg and transport lanes in addition to the know-how required for automated drone management and administration of the drone fleet: the Built-in Management Middle.
Mathias Gronstedt, Managing Director of HHLA Sky: „Automation is the important thing to environment friendly drone operations: HHLA Sky’s Built-in Management Middle makes flights past visible vary doable and drone operations scalable – protected and cybersecure. We’re delighted to be a part of dronePORT with this know-how and to supply our providers right here.”
The Built-in Management Middle is a extremely automated course of administration and management middle software program, a Cell Robotic Administration system with built-in {hardware} that allows drone flights over lengthy distances and with out visible contact with the pilot (Past Visible Line of Sight – BVLOS): For instance, when inspecting infrastructure objects reminiscent of bridges, roads and enormous areas. An operator within the management middle screens these flights and might intervene at any time. He is ready to monitor a number of drone flights on the similar time. In whole, greater than 100 BVLOS-automated drone flights will be carried out concurrently through the Built-in Management Middle.
Along with HHLA Sky, the HPA and the Hamburg Police, different companions reminiscent of Hamburg’s State Company for Roads, Bridges and Waterways (LSBG), Beagle Techniques, Flynex, ZAL Middle of Utilized Aeronautical Analysis, the Hamburg College of Utilized Sciences (HAW Hamburg) and EmQopter additionally offered their merchandise and initiatives (e.g. CITYAM, BLU-Area) on the dronePORT opening.
