“ANRA Technologies Completes Successful Two-Year Role in CAELUS Project”

ANRA Tech­nolo­gies recent­ly announced it has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its two-year role with­in the ‘Care & Equi­ty, Health­care Logis­tics UAS Project’ (CAELUS), fund­ed by UKRI, reports a press release. 

This two-phase ini­tia­tive (CAELUS 1 & 2) focused on advanc­ing air­space inte­gra­tion and deliv­ery man­age­ment ser­vices for drones deliv­er­ing med­ical prod­ucts for the NHS Scot­land, “paving the way for scal­able, safe and effi­cient drone oper­a­tions in the UK,” explains the release.

ANRA’s role is sup­port­ing the devel­op­ment and val­i­da­tion of air­space man­age­ment solu­tions using Unmanned Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UTM) and deliv­ery man­age­ment sys­tems. The release con­tin­ues, “The company’s cut­ting-edge Deliv­ery Man­age­ment Sys­tem (DMS), inte­grat­ed with its UTM plat­form, enabled com­plex Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) med­ical deliv­ery oper­a­tions, con­nect­ing key stake­hold­ers such as NHS Scot­land, deliv­ery drone oper­a­tors, and end users.”

High­lights

Enhanc­ing NHS Oper­a­tions 

ANRA’s DMS facil­i­tat­ed seam­less coor­di­na­tion between NHS cus­tomers, sup­pli­ers and drone oper­a­tors, val­i­dat­ing the sys­tem’s abil­i­ty to sup­port crit­i­cal med­ical use cas­es.

Par­tic­i­pa­tion in Four CAELUS Tri­als 

ANRA sup­port­ed and par­tic­i­pat­ed in major tri­als across Scot­land, includ­ing Glas­gow Air­port, Crosshouse to Arran, Edin­burgh to the Bor­ders and Aberdeen to Elgin.

UTM-ATM Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty Solu­tions 

Lever­ag­ing its exper­tise in open inter­op­er­abil­i­ty stan­dards, ANRA devel­oped and test­ed UTM-ATM inter­op­er­abil­i­ty solu­tions dur­ing the Crosshouse and Aberdeen tri­als. These tests show­cased the abil­i­ty to inte­grate drone oper­a­tions with­in exist­ing air traf­fic man­age­ment (ATM) frame­works.

The CAELUS Project achieved sev­er­al crit­i­cal mile­stones. Notably, ANRA’s UTM plat­form was suc­cess­ful­ly inte­grat­ed into the project’s Con­cept of Oper­a­tions (ConOps), estab­lish­ing a sol­id foun­da­tion for future air­space man­age­ment frame­works. 

Addi­tion­al­ly, the Project demon­strat­ed the exe­cu­tion of com­plex BVLOS oper­a­tions, with ANRA’s DMS, enabling seam­less data exchanges with ATM sys­tems. This capa­bil­i­ty ensured effi­cient and safe drone flights in high­ly reg­u­lat­ed air­space, as show­cased dur­ing the Crosshouse and Aberdeen tri­als.

Dr. Ajay Mod­ha, Head of Busi­ness UK at ANRA Tech­nolo­gies, com­ment­ed, “The suc­cess­ful tri­als and demon­stra­tions high­light how our solu­tions can enable scal­able, safe and effi­cient drone oper­a­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly in crit­i­cal use cas­es like health­care.” 

The release states, “One of the pro­jec­t’s most notable achieve­ments was com­plet­ing the UK’s longest onshore BVLOS drone flight. The oper­a­tion fea­tured two seg­ments, with an inter­me­di­ate land­ing at a charg­ing sta­tion, man­aged entire­ly through ANRA’s inte­grat­ed DMS and UTM solu­tions.”

Adding, “This accom­plish­ment demon­strates ANRA’s com­mit­ment to enabling reli­able drone oper­a­tions for essen­tial ser­vices and their inter­op­er­abil­i­ty with mul­ti­ple tech­nol­o­gy part­ners.” 

Dr. Ajay Mod­ha

The Project’s suc­cess rep­re­sents a major step for­ward in real­is­ing the poten­tial of drones to improve health­care deliv­ery, reduce trans­porta­tion times and improve patient out­comes in the UK and beyond. 

ANRA’s oth­er part­ners dur­ing both the CAELUS 1 and 2 Projects includ­ed AGS Air­ports, Dron­am­ics, Sky­ports, NATS, Arup, Con­nect­ed Places Cat­a­pult and Atkins. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.anratechnologies.com

https://www.agsairports.co.uk/drones

(Top image: ANRA Tech­nolo­gies)

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