{"id":378199,"date":"2022-06-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=378199"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:00:00","slug":"the-high-tech-campus-showcases-simultaneous-and-autonomous-drone-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/the-high-tech-campus-showcases-simultaneous-and-autonomous-drone-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Tech Campus showcases simultaneous and autonomous drone operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Delivering goods, carrying medical equipment, or scanning buildings for predictive maintenance, drones\u2019 use cases have endless possibilities. Technologies and applications are here, thus thinking about Urban Air Mobility – UAM –  ecosystems is the following step to integrating drones into society. That\u2019s what Flying Forward 2020<\/a> – FF2020 – is doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FF2020 is a European collaborative research project developing a new UAM standard, complying with the Digital Government Transformation of countries. Ultimately, the focus is to incorporate such an ecosystem into the geospatial data infrastructure of cities. The program kicked off in December 2020 and will run until November 2023, testing operations in 5 living labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among them, the High Tech Campus Eindhoven<\/a> – HTCE – was the first one to start with the pilots and to present the first results of its research. They showcased simultaneously three use cases with the presence of all partners involved and the media. This way, they gave a sneak preview of what we can expect to experience in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy with the result of what we showed today, but we have even higher ambitions,\u201d told Innovation Origins Ted van Hoof. He\u2019s HTCE\u2019s Urban Air Mobility Project Manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building maintenance and last-mile delivery <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tests at the HTCE will keep going until September. Then pilots will start in Milan\u2019s field lab. All the labs involved share the acquired knowledge to improve test conducting in the different stages of the program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HTCE living lab experimented with five drones\u2019 use cases. For instance, UAVs were used for building maintenance purposes. Through their cameras, aircraft can scan the facades of a building to check on dwellings’ condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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