Spin-off division will focus on deploying fixed and mobile ARROW sensor towers to provide enhanced aerial detection and drone flight approvals to critical/sensitive infrastructure & real-estate
London, UK: Altitude Angel, the world’s most trusted UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, has today announced it has launched a new division, Prism Detect, which will focus on making its ARROW technology available to customers who require advanced unified situational awareness capabilities for the detection of crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
Altitude Angel’s ARROW technology is a critical component in enabling the world’s longest drone superhighway and is an innovative array of ground-based, networked sensors ‘scanning’ the low altitude sky. The system connects to Altitude Angel’s global UTM platform, GuardianUTM, which processes the real-time data and then ‘fuses’ it to create a single-source-point-of-truth - an ultra-high-resolution, real-time, moving map of the low-altitude sky, which includes both drones and crewed aviation.
In its totality, Prism Detect provides managers of sensitive real-estate or critical infrastructure with a comprehensive and real-time view of all airspace users within a significant radius of the towers, which can be temporary, mobile, or fixed installations.
Unlike other surveillance/detection solutions, which usually take a ‘one size fits all’ approach, the Prism Detect offering can be adapted depending on the terrain on which it is deployed with the sensor array scaled or reduced to suit the operator’s needs.
Furthermore, because Prism Detect is connected to Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM platform, operators will be able to differentiate between expected (authorised) and unexpected (unauthorised or 'surprise’) aerial visitors, allowing those deploying the platform to be able to make informed decisions with the accurate intelligence before them. It makes the offering incredibly versatile, particularly for sporting events or mass gatherings, or where it’s important to be able to establish visibility over wide geographic areas. It also has the advantage of being able to distinguish between friend or potential foe in the vicinity, but also to be able to ‘tag’ certain drones as ‘known’ - for example, those supporting the event itself.
Richard Parker, Altitude Angel, CEO and founder, said: “Altitude Angel has, and always will be, focussed on enabling drone operations and providing services for new airspace users.
“Prism Detect will give those with responsibility for critical infrastructure, sensitive real-estate, or outdoor sport and entertainment venues, unparalleled visibility into the sky above. By providing clear intelligence as to who, or what, is operating in the airspace means appropriate and proportionate decisions can be made swiftly and with confidence.
“Today, facilities worldwide can avail of a variety of often independent sensors, each telling only a single chapter of the story and offer little to no actual intelligence to distinguish between authorised and unauthorised traffic. If the world is to welcome drones, then the world needs Prism Detect to help it make sense of the data.”
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Stephen Farmer, Head of Corporate Communications & PR, Altitude Angel
stephen@altitudeangel.com
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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
Altitude Angel Launches Prism Detect