The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment has announced that it has successfully used three Altura Zenith ATX8 drones, manufactured by Aerialtronics, to monitor the traffic leading to and from the Concert at Sea festival in Zeeland. The drones monitored an area of 30 square kilometres and were supported with a strong wireless network connection provided by T-Mobile.
Nokia Trials UAS for Cell Tower Maintenance
Nokia has showed off how it plans to use drones to replace some of the inspection and maintenance work on cell towers which is currently done by human technicians. Continue reading
NASA 2015 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Convention
NASA and the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International will cosponsor the 2015 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Convention: A New Era in Aviation. The event will be held Tuesday, July 28 through Thursday, July 30, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Continue reading
Sony Enters Commercial UAS Business
Sony Mobile Communications and ZMP Inc. have agreed to collaborate on the development and launch of enterprise solutions using autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for image captured combined with cloud-based data processing.
Gray Eagle Crash in Southern Iraq
Photos posted on Jul. 21 on Twitter show a crashed (largely intact) MQ-1C Gray Eagle with U.S. Army markings. Continue reading
Largest Amphibious UAV Completes Maiden Flight
On the 15th of May, 2015 Singular Aircrafts’s Flyox I, currently the largest UAV in the aviation market, completed its test flight in Hofn, Iceland. Continue reading
Draganfly Acquired by TRACE Live Networks
TRACE Live Networks, developer of The TRACEr1 – a visually intelligent camera capable of following its owner almost anywhere and live-streaming captured footage to the Internet – announced that it has acquired commercial sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial System) specialists, Draganfly Innovations Inc. Continue reading
Drone World Expo Conference Sessions
Drone World Expo’s educational program, designed with guidance from the event’s esteemed Advisory Board, will provide a road map for commercial drone use and key insights into measuring and maximizing the value drones can add to commercial businesses and civil organizations. Continue reading