Lessons learned from drone deliveries

Current restrictions imposed across Europe due to COVID-19 have resulted in an enhanced need to deliver medical equipment quickly between hospitals, monitor movement of people in cities under restrictions, and limit tasks that require face-to-face interaction by having them performed by drones. This has further emphasised the need for U-space to enable management of unmanned traffic in very low level airspace in a safe and efficient manner.  

To this end, we are organising a series of webinars, where members of the European Network of U-space Demonstrators from across Europe will share their U-space knowhow and experience.

In this first edition of our webinar series, we discussed: 

• lessons learned from parcel delivery in the UK;
• drone deliveries, UAS traffic management (UTM), detect and avoid (DAA) and how to move from segregated to unsegregated airspace.

This first webinar in our series consisted of presentations from U-space leaders, followed by a panel discussion.