Consortium showcase national CIS capability in Netherlands demonstration

LVNL, Altitude Angel, AirHub & SenHive collaborate to demonstrate Common Information System (CIS) for Netherlands’ airspace 

London, UK & Amsterdam, Netherlands: A consortium of Dutch and Anglo companies are to demonstrate how a Common Information Service (CIS) can support and enable commercial drone across the Netherlands.  

In front of a specially invited delegation of industry stakeholders, Altitude Angel, Senhive and Airhub will together demonstrate the capabilities of a CIS and how it can be the gateway to delivering a secure, performant, and reliable interface between the ANSP and all U-space stakeholders, such as USSPs, authorities, national registration, public safety, and defence.  

The comprehensive CIS demonstration will involve Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM platform fusing LVNL’s ATM Radar Data (ASTERIX Categories 21, 48 and 62) with surveillance sources including drone detection systems from Senhive, UAS RemoteID, ADS-B, and Altitude Angel’s ARROW technology, to create a consolidated and comprehensive lower-airspace traffic picture.  

For the showcase, Altitude Angel has created a common, open, and interoperable interface for USSPs to receive static and dynamic geo-awareness data from LVNL and share flights with other U-space stakeholders.  It will also act as an ‘authorisation broker’ which routes UAS plans to LVNL’s GoDrone system for approval to operate in controlled airspace and updates the USSP in real-time with the authorisation.  

On the CIS demonstration, Richard Parker, Altitude Angel, CEO and founder said: “This demonstration is a milestone in the development of the Netherlands drone ecosystem. The CIS is the critical foundation stone on which multiple drone operations, all flying BVLOS, can be built.”  

‘’This is an important step in the integration of safe and efficient traffic flows of unmanned and manned air traffic in one Dutch airspace” added Wouter Pekela, LVNL, Program Manager Unmanned Aviation.

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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 is leading a consortium of businesses to build and develop 165 miles (265km) of ‘drone superhighways’ connecting airspace above Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby over the next two years. 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 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  

About AirHub 

AirHub is a Dutch-based drone software & consultancy company which knows unmanned aviation is as serious as manned aviation. Its goal is to safely, and efficiently integrate drones into society by bringing the best drone solutions to companies through innovative software and services. By connecting drones to the enterprise through its software and consulting services it wants to deliver on the full potential of drones. 

About LVNL 

LVNL has been a crucial link in the Dutch airspace system for nearly a hundred years. We work around the clock to ensure safe, efficient and eco-conscious handling of air traffic at airports and in the skies.  

We always ensure the safety of our operations and reliable delivery of services and use our expertise to provide value for customers, partners and society at large. We are embedding and strengthening our role in society while supporting our organisation in the realisation of our objectives. 

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