Nokia Partners with UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority to Create an End to End UAS Ecosystem
Nokia and the United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority will work to create an end-to-end UAS ecosystem for the country, based off Nokia’s UAV Traffic Management concept.
The creation of the ecosystem would make the UAE’s goal of establishing a smart city a reality, and it would also make the country the first in the world to have safe, secure and managed operations of UAS for both businesses and government agencies.
“We, as a civil aviation regulator, are pleased to partner with Nokia for such an innovative initiative for the UAE aviation sector and to build a safe and secure drone ecosystem,” said Ismaeil Mohammed Al Blooshi, assistant director general of the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority.
“Being the number one aviation industry in the world with regard to safety standards, the UAE has superb aviation infrastructure and is qualified to play a key role in innovative aviation projects such as this drone collaboration.”
Bernard Najm, head of the Middle East Market Unit at Nokia, added, “this collaboration with the GCAA, the first of its kind in the world, gives us a unique and extensive test bed where we can trial and refine our UAV Traffic Management system, and shape the future of UAV management overall.”
Nokia’s UTM concept will look to safely integrate UAS into everyday life, as it seeks to help unmanned systems meet a variety of challenges including automated flight permissions, no-fly zone control and beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights.
To help with the development of the UTM concept, Nokia is using its expansive knowledge in 4G LTE, as well as its leadership in developing 5G mobile networks and Mobile Edge Computing.
