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Drone deliveries; UTM, DAA and how to move to
move from segregated to unsegregated airspace
EUROCONTROL – 11 November 2020
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This information is confidential
Skyports Overview Skyports is a drone delivery logistics provider. We are experts in carrying high- value cargo for our partners in complex operating environments. Our investors:
MEDICAL DISASTER
E-COMMERCE LOGISTICS
RESPONSE
Drone
Delivery Transport medical Deploy rapidly within Rapidly dispatch packages Incorporate drones into
Sectors products including disaster zones transporting to logistics hubs or directly logistics operations,
pathology samples, blood food, medicine and to customers, improving including a just-in-time
Skyports operates and tissue products and delivery service of critical
supplies to hard-to-reach the speed and quality of
across four sectors
medicine in purpose built locations services components to industrial
cold-chain vehicles sites
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Source: Skyports
Roadmap to permanent medical drone delivery operations for the NHS
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Rapid NHS Support POC (COVID-19) Multi-Month ESA Project (COVID-19) Permanent service
Hospital 1 Hospital 2
Oban GP 1
GP 1
Isle of Hospital 2 Hospital 1
Mull
GP 3
GP 2 GP 2
Hospital 3
Project Details Project Details Project Details
Deliver medical goods & PPE Deliver medical goods & PPE
Concept Concept Scaled up permanent
between two hospital sites between hospital and GP sites Concept
commercial delivery service
Timing Q2 2020 Timing Q4 2020/Q1 2021
Timing 2021 onwards
Duration 2 week proof-of-concept Duration 3 month full-service demo
Duration Long-term agreement
1. Integrate with NHS supply
1. Demonstrate viability and chain
Goals feasibility of a drone delivery Goals 2. Build up route network 1. Establish permanent
service 3. Facilitate steady state, Goals
commercial operations
foundation service
Procedural deconfliction in a Procedural deconfliction in a
Airspace Airspace DAA, procedural deconfliction in
temporary danger area temporary danger area Airspace
a TMZ*, then full U-Space
Working with the CAA in the Regulatory Sandbox to enable future
Airspace Enablement permanent operations outside segregated airspace.
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*TMZ – Transponder Mandatory Zone – not available in all EU countries
Phase 1: Rapid NHS Purpose - provide a fast and frequent service
for the NHS to assist in the COVID testing
Outcome
Support POC regime establishing feasibility for future NHS
1 week project
drone projects 40 BVLOS flights
Skyports executed on the UK’s first medical 900km travelled
drone deliveries during the COVID-19
pandemic, transporting medical cargo Flights - 17km BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of 240kg of rapid payload capacity created
between the Scottish mainland and an Sight) flights operating in segregated Data produced to move into phase 2 of
island 17km to the west. airspace in rural Scotland between hospitals project – 3 months of flying in Q3/Q4
in Oban Hospital and Isle of Mull. Procedural airspace deconfliction
No airspace incidents
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Phase 2: Multi-Month ESA Funded Project
Project Details
• Funded through the European Space Agency’s call for
bids to use space-enabled technology to assist with
Structure
the COVID-19 response
• Skyports-led with Deloitte and Vodafone
• Provide the NHS in Argyll & Bute (W. Scotland) with
assistance for its COVID-19 response, and as elective
Objectives:
activity comes back online
• Generate data to move to permanent recurring ops
• Expanding geographical and cargo scope from ph.1
Scope: • Improve airspace facilitation through UTM partner –
worked closely with airspace users in Phase 1 and
others to identify focus areas
Timing: • First flights Q4 2020
• Dangerous goods – path. samples, e.g. COVID-19
Cargo:
• Medical equipment, e.g. COVID-19 testing kits
• UTM system for airspace surveillance and strategic
deconfliction in a TDA
Airspace
• Unmanned Aircraft fitted with a tracking device, ADS- 6
B in and FLARM
Airspace: Routes to permanent operations
Increasing Complexity
Very Low-Level Transponder Mandated
Temporary Danger Area (TDA) On-Board DAA System Fully Integrated UTM System
Zones (TMZ)
• Very low level airspace dedicated to • Establish very low level (0-500ft) • On-board forward facing sensor • Airspace deconfliction through an
Overview
drone operators TMZ information. EC for 360° awareness advanced UTM system
• UTM system integrated with
• Basic UTM, EC equipped drones, • Operations in unsegregated airspace
autopilot sending information to
Detail • Std approach for BVLOS operations secondary surveillance and ConOps with autonomous deconfliction
drone ensuring deconfliction via on-
for deconfliction decisions
board algorithm (e.g. ACAS sXu)
• NAA approval for TMZ procedures
• NAA approval of DAA system in
• Approval of airspace change process • UAS operators adhere to TMZ • NAA approval of UTM system
Regulatory unsegregated airspace
Requirements
and accompanying Temporary ConOps • NAA approval of UTM system
Operating Instructions • NAA approval of deconfliction
• UAS with ADS-B based DAA protocols
integration on Drone
capability
Best short term solution for limited Best medium term solution for
Best long term solution for permanent operations
duration permanent operations
• Most complex solution that allows
• UK Reg. Sandbox helping to define
advanced integration between UTM
Skyports key requirements – Post ‘Sandbox’
Assessment
and autopilot
process unclear
• Not viable in long term (unscalable) • Preferred long-term solution;
• Viable short-term solution • Case by case approval required
• Inefficient use of airspace depending on location
unlikely to be available in next 12
months
• Eliminates human factors from
• Trials underway; results look
deconfliction procedure
promising
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Duncan Walker
CEO
duncan@skyports.net
+44 7711 696 170
www.skyports.net
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