Partners: FRQ

This demonstrator will create a Registration, Identification, Tracking & Payload Sensor Data Processing Infrastructure. The proposed pre-operational Flight Information Management System (FIMS) comprises an interoperability architecture for integrating existing commercial off the shelf (COTS) UTM components as well as other infrastructures to perform demonstration activities based on operational scenarios and concepts of operations with respect to registration, identification, tracking and payload sensor data processing. The demonstrator will show the fitness for purpose of combining COTS components to demonstrate all phases of drone operations with focus on pre-flight and flight execution. The concept translates the workflow into services and interactions with external parties and other infrastructures enabling shared situational awareness for all aviation stakeholders. A proposed microservice-oriented data exchange layer provides standard protocols to connect various UTM services allowing for automated drone traffic management and situational awareness. The proposed architecture underlines that the proposed data exchange layer might be subject to a centralised regime owned by the ANSPs (in accordance with current ICAO rules and regulations). Ultimately, the whole concept shall comply and integrate with existing ICAO regulations (ATM/UTM integration) by simultaneously providing a service-oriented infrastructure to enable new business models for the UTM service provider landscape.