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FAA Clears Way for Autonomous Aviation in the U.S.
Wednesday 20 September, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has authorised Zipline to conduct commercial deliveries without the need for visual observers, marking a significant achievement that the entire industry has pursued for years. This groundbreaking decision paves the way for the ...
Drone uses Precise Positioning to Clean Water Ways
Thursday 31 August, 2023 | Mobility Landscape | News
Around 80% of oceanic plastic waste originates from rivers, canals, harbours, and beaches. Addressing this issue, the Dutch company RanMarine Technology has introduced an autonomously floating drone designed for water cleaning. This innovative drone employs Telekom’s ...
FAA Issues Implementation Plan Outlines Steps to Usher in Advanced Air Mobility
Friday 21 July, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
The FAA has issued an implementation plan that outlines the necessary measures for the safe integration of advanced air mobility operations in the near future. Known as the “Innovate28” plan, it encompasses multiple components and a well-defined sequence of steps ...
Nokia’s turnkey 5G-connected drone platform selected by Belgium’s Citymesh
Thursday 1 June, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
Nokia announces a first-of-its-kind partnership with Citymesh to supply its Nokia Drone Networks platform with 70 Drone-in-a-Box (DiaB) units. Enough to cover Belgium with a 5G-connected drone grid that informs and accelerates resources during emergencies. The drones ...
Revolutionizing drone services: How 5G technology is paving the way for a new era of AAM
Wednesday 12 April, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
As the world continues to digitalise, drones are gaining more and more relevance across a plethora of use cases. To fully realise their potential, it is critical to overcome obstacles to guarantee safety and drone traffic control measures. In partnership with the GSMA ...
How BT Group is using its network to power UK-first drone medical delivery trial with Skyfarer
Wednesday 12 April, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
BT Group have made no secret of their vision and ambitions when it comes to playing its part in the future of drones. The advancements drones can make in healthcare and medical delivery are starting to be explored, and a UK-first medical delivery drone trial has taken place, ...
The ultimate cloud network infrastructure for autonomous robotics
Wednesday 12 April, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
As the world becomes increasingly automated, robots and drones are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in many industries. By 2026, more than 152,000 robots are projected to be deployed, reaching a total market value of USD 58.56 billion with a CAGR of 33.21%. The drone market is ...
Chinese operators make progress with the 5G enterprise push
Monday 3 April, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | APAC | News
The three major mobile operators in China have registered growing traction in the 5G industrial sector, with gains in revenue from deploying private networks for enterprises. According to China Mobile’s latest earnings release, uptake of 5G services, mobile cloud, digital ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking to move toward a more modern network environment that is less defined by copper wires.
Thursday 30 March, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Verizon the $2.4 billion recompete of a contract to act as lead integrator and operator for the Federal Aviation Administration’s main telecommunications and IT network. Read the full article here.
Vodafone & Dimetor Present the First Digital Risk Check for Drone Flights
Wednesday 29 March, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
Vodafone and Dimetor have launched DroNet, the industry’s first digital data service to risk check commercial drone flights. Operators and licensing authorities can use Vodafone’s drone service via a digital interface to assess the ground and connectivity ...
Telefónica makes 5G communication between drones and Smart City
Tuesday 21 March, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
The use case consists of communicating between several drones in flight, as well as with different connected urban elements, in order to make a correct delivery of a package to a mobile collection point. For the first time, several innovative technologies have been combined, ...
Europe is Leading the World in the Growth of BVLOS Drone Services Via Cellular
Tuesday 24 January, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | Advanced Air Mobility Industry News | News
This article highlights the three most important developments for the European drone market; European Commission (EU) Drone Strategy 2.0; Electronic Communication Committee Decision; U-space Regulatory Package introducing Remote ID. The EU Drone Strategy 2:0: recognises the ...
Drones & Mobile Networks Drive the Paradigm Shift the Transportation Industry Needs
Thursday 19 January, 2023 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
Modern society’s unrelenting demand for efficiency is a catalyst for innovators to create technology that transforms how we live — and how we move. Smart mobility, an intelligent transport and mobility network, is one such innovation. By connecting different elements of ...
Dimetor (AirborneRF) and Sunrise are collaborating with the Swiss FOCA to utilize dynamic data for a digital SORA
Thursday 10 November, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
Dimetor, the creator of AirborneRF, in collaboration with Sunrise GmbH was selected to work in partnership with the Swiss FOCA on a project to operationalize a dynamic assessment of air & ground risk for drone operations to support and digitize SORA authorization in ...
The mobile industry must continue its mission to unite the UAV ecosystem
Friday 26 August, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
The UAV market lies at a critical juncture. On the one hand we, as mobile network operators, are seeing huge demand for deployment of commercial, cellular-enabled drones, across almost every industry you can think of. On the other hand – and unlike most other areas of the ...
The GSMA Foundry: a unique environment where new opportunities are created across the mobile industry
Monday 21 March, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility | GSMA Foundry | Internet of Things – general | News | Smart Cities
The GSMA Foundry is all about solving the most pressing challenges of the day in connected technology – a forum where organisations of all sizes can come together to pioneer new approaches and make lasting contributions to the industry. At MWC Barcelona 2022 I was ...
The GSMA Foundry and 5G Autonomous Drones: efficient inventory management and surveillance inspections
Thursday 3 February, 2022 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
The GSMA Foundry is an exciting new forum for pioneers, thought leaders and problem solvers in the mobile industry – using the GSMA’s global reach and convening power to unify the ecosystem and shape the future of connectivity, through the sharing of expertise and the ...
LATAM UAV market an opportunity to improve quality of life, industry experts say
Thursday 16 December, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
Across Latin America, the commercial drones market is an increasingly important contributor to economic development and is estimated to be worth over $1 billion in annual revenues by 2025, growing fourfold over 2021 projections. But this opportunity is also social and ...
Safety first: a glimpse into the future of cellular drones from MWC21 Barcelona
Friday 16 July, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility | Internet of Things – general | News
This year’s MWC Barcelona was an unusual one for obvious reasons, but it was heartening to see delegates turn out in force nonetheless for our series on realising the promise of cellular drones. Much of the sector’s initial growth will be driven by unmanned flights, so ...
Regulators must recognise the role of mobile connectivity for commercial drones to flourish
Friday 30 April, 2021 | Advanced Air Mobility | News
The global commercial drone market has huge potential for growth, estimated to be worth $43 billion by 2024. Key to this valuation are numerous applications that will depend heavily on mobile connectivity. Sectors such as logistics, security and infrastructure inspection are ...