London, UK: Altitude Angel was last night crowned winner of the Aviation R&D Award at the prestigious Aviation Industry Awards UK 2024, held at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham.
The Aviation Industry Awards acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of all UK aviation stakeholders, from airlines and airports to cutting-edge manufacturers and innovative suppliers. The awards showcase the innovation, dedication, and leadership which drive the industry's success.
The judging panel, comprised of experts from different constituencies within aviation, including academics, journalists, and industry leaders, voted Altitude Angel’s Arrow platform, through its deployment in Project SKYWAY, as winner in the Aviation R&D category. In awarding Altitude Angel the win, the judges recognised the company’s track record of innovation and its ability to demonstrate the high degree of commercial potential.
Altitude Angel's Arrow platform is a state-of-the-art ground-based Detect-And-Avoid (DAA) solution. The cutting-edge technology fuses input from a sophisticated array of sensors located on Arrow masts, to give an unparalleled view of the sky encompassing crewed & uncrewed and cooperative & non-cooperative aircraft.
Phil Binks, Altitude Angel’s Head of ATM, said: “We are honoured to receive this award. To be recognised alongside some of the industry’s biggest names is a clear demonstration of our growing influence within aviation and our technology’s ability to enable a new generation of airspace users.”
A full list of the winners can be found here.
Picture: Stephen Farmer receives the award from Professor Richard Curran, Sustainable Aviation Operations Chair and Head of Aviation Management at City St. Georges, University of London.
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For more information, please contact:
Stephen Farmer, Altitude Angel, Head of Corporate Communications & PR
stephen@altitudeangel.com.
About Altitude Angel
Altitude Angel is an award-winning provider of UTM (Unified Traffic Management) software, enabling those planning to operate, or develop, UTM/U-Space solutions to quickly integrate robust data and services with minimum effort.
Today, Altitude Angel’s market-defining technology is providing a critical, enabling service on which the future of UTM will be built across the globe. Altitude Angel has been leading a consortium of businesses to build and develop a ‘drone superhighway’ connecting airspace above Reading, Oxford, Coventry, and Rugby. The SKYWAY superhighway network, enabled using Altitude Angel’s patented Arrow® technology, will unlock the huge potential offered by unmanned aerial vehicles and be a catalyst to enable growth in the urban air mobility industry.
Altitude Angel’s first party solutions also power some of the world’s leading ANSPs, aviation authorities and Enterprises, including NATS (Services) Ltd (UK), LVNL (Netherlands) and Avinor (Norway), empowering them with new capabilities to safely manage and integrate drone traffic into national operations.
By unlocking the potential of drones and helping national aviation authorities, ANSPs, developers and enterprise organisations, Altitude Angel is establishing new services to support the growth in the drone industry.
Altitude Angel was founded by Richard Parker in 2014 and is headquartered in Reading, UK.
Altitude Angel’s developer platform is open and available to all at https://developers.altitudeangel.com
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