| Precision senseFly and AirMap partner to advance safety for commercial drones
New partnership delivers robust airspace intelligence and unmanned traffic management solutions to senseFly ’ s largely autonomous commercial drones .
s enseFly , the world ’ s first choice producer of mapping drones and subsidiary of Parrot Group , today announced that they have partnered with AirMap , the world ’ s leading airspace management platform for drones , to deliver AirMap ’ s airspace services to senseFly ’ s eBee fixed wing drones and Albris quadcopter .
AirMap ’ s airspace platform services will be directly integrated into senseFly ’ s eMotion flight and data management software , providing professional operators and their drones with critical information and tools to enable safe missions .
AirMap ’ s industry-leading situational awareness data include airspace rules and advisories , locations of critical infrastructure , and real-time alerts about nearby manned air traffic flying in the surrounding airspace . senseFly drones will also begin leveraging AirMap ’ s flight planning tools and solutions for Unmanned Traffic Management , including technology that will allow senseFly drones to submit digital flight notices to more than 125 airports .
The AirMap platform powers the vast majority of the world ’ s drones , providing the industry ’ s most comprehensive , reliable , and realtime airspace information and services . Millions of drones and hundreds of drone manufacturers and developers rely on the platform to access and share the data they need to fly safely in low-altitude airspace . More than 125 airports use AirMap ’ s airspace management dashboard to open surrounding airspace to drones , view past and current drone flights , accept digital flight notices , and communicate with drone operators .
Lower cost BlackBox
Patchwork Technology Ltd was proud to unveil the BlackBox Air at LAMMA 2017 .
F or the first time Patchwork is able to offer a complete guidance and area measurement system for under £ 1000 . The starting price for the Air is £ 700 without a tablet and £ 800 with a tablet .
The BlackBox Air software can be downloaded free of charge from the Google Play store . It has been designed to run on any Android tablet or mobile phone * offering the widest choice of display possible within the industry .
Sue Davies Commercial Director at Patchwork said “ We are proud to be building on the success of the existing BlackBox range , the Air now adds low cost of entry to state of the art hardware .”
Sue said “ We are overwhelmed by the positive response it has received , allowing cost saving technology to be even more accessible than ever before . Richard Skinner of KR & JM Skinner and Sons in Lincolnshire was the first of many to purchase the exciting new BlackBox AIR , and will be using the system to improve the way he applies products in field to reduce wastage and save money .”
Patchwork Technology are still improving the existing BlackBox range Sue said “ We are getting very positive feedback from people using the VariSpread function on Kuhn and Rauch spreaders , we have been told that users can ’ t believe how easy it is to set-up and use this capability on their BlackBox Advance ”
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