Context: Recently, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways unveiled Skye UTM, confirmed as the most cutting-edge unmanned traffic management system in the world.
About Skye UTM:
It is a Cloud-based aerial traffic management system.
It integrates unmanned air traffic with manned aviation airspace.
It is capable of handling 4,000 flights per hour.
In a day, it can handle 96,000 flights.
It will help drone operators with situational awareness, autonomous navigation, traffic management and risk assessment.
It will aid in real-time monitoring and speed up highway construction while keeping a check on fatal road accidents.
It will display real-time UAV movements and provide verified paths.
It captures over 255 parameters of UAV movements and stored them in its ‘Blackbox’.
Blackbox: small machine on an aircraft that records the details of each flight and is useful for finding out the cause of a plane crash
It will offer the first 3D view of drone airspace.
