{"id":6559,"date":"2020-08-25T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anratechnologies.com\/home\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:56:52","slug":"drone-radio-show-podcast-scaling-up-for-uas-traffic-management-with-amit-ganjoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anratechnologies.com\/home\/2020\/08\/25\/drone-radio-show-podcast-scaling-up-for-uas-traffic-management-with-amit-ganjoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Radio Show Podcast: Scaling up for UAS Traffic Management with Amit Ganjoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK\u2019S KEY QUESTION<\/h4>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s involved with scaling up Unmanned Traffic Management systems?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Drone Radio Show<\/a><\/p>\n

THIS WEEK\u2019S GUESTS<\/h4>\n

Amit Ganjoo is Founder & CEO of Washington DC based ANRA Technologies, an award winning drone operations and UAS Traffic Management platform.\u00a0 It\u2019s one thing to develop a UTM system to track a few drones, but it\u2019s a much different challenge when the number of drones climb into the hundreds and event thousands.\u00a0 Anra\u2019s UTM and Mission Management system is designed to meet this challenge and is used by commercial and government entities for\u00a0managing commercial drone operations at scale.<\/p>\n

Amit has over 20 years of aviation, telecom and wireless experience in both the federal and the commercial space. He is an engineer and a licensed pilot pursuing his lifelong passion in aviation by building and flying experimental aircraft.\u00a0 As part of his pursuit to efficiently integrate drones into the airspace, Amit is a board member of the Global UTM Association that supports the accelerated and transparent implementation of globally interoperable UTM systems. He is also a member of FAA\u2019s Drone Advisory Committee working group for UTM.<\/p>\n

Prior to founding ANRA Technologies, Amit was co-chair for the FCC Technical Advisory Council (TAC) for 5G and IoT, which included ground and airborne autonomous vehicles. He was the Director of Engineering and Principal Architect at Ericsson, providing telecom solutions to commercial customers and the Federal Government, where he was the recipient of the Athena Award.\u00a0 Amit is an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Engineering and volunteers at a local Maker Space in the D.C. area. He holds a master\u2019s degree in Computer Science and Civil Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Punjab Engineering College.<\/p>\n

WHAT WE LEARN<\/h4>\n

Amit talks about Anra Technologies\u2019 UTM and Mission Management system, how it can help enterprise companies safely and efficiently scale operations and the future of unmanned traffic management.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/droneradioshow\/DRS_282_Amit_Ganjoo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

IN THIS EPISODE<\/h4>\n
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  • Introduction.\u00a0<\/strong>The team at ANRA Technologies has multiple decades of aviation, robotics and communications experience. Amit used to be the principal architect for a company called Ericsson, then worked for the US Department of Defense on a drone and communications program. In 2015, he starting ANRA Technologies.\u00a0 Although relatively new to the commercial market, the team\u2019s experience in the defense sector gave it a leg up.\u00a0 They had some initial ideas, which turned into patents and they built a quick and dirty prototype, that won an award at a 2015 DC event.\u00a0 Amit received a call from NASA shortly afterward, inviting the company to join them in working on UTM.\u00a0 The prototype was designed to look at how to safely integrate drones into the national airspace.\u00a0 Not just one or two drones, but hundreds, if not thousands or millions of drones sharing the same airspace.\u00a0 Sharing space requires something called \u201cdeconfliction\u201d, the process or decisions to make sure drones, when they\u2019re in the sky, don\u2019t go bumping into each other (or bumping into airliners or buildings). \u00a0That\u2019s what NASA was looking to research, and that took a life of its own and became the ANRA Technologies UTM platform.<\/li>\n
  • Meet The Jetsons<\/strong>. The world is transitioning into the Jetson stage where eventually, urban air mobility or what NASA calls, advanced air mobility will be in operation.\u00a0 Such system will have people flying from building rooftop to another rooftop.\u00a0 Before that happens, however, we\u2019ll most likely see cargo being delivered using unmanned aircraft.\u00a0 And then with the likes of Uber (Uber Air Mobility), we\u2019ll start to see passenger service in urban areas.\u00a0 But this is still a way out, but it shows the possibilities and the need for a reliable UTM system.\u00a0 It all starts with innovation, experimentation to operationalization. So like there are a lot of experiments going on and some are transitioning to operationalize.<\/li>\n
  • The Framework<\/strong>. The ANRA Technologies system has been used in several operational trials and field demonstrations. In addition, it is powering the first of its kind nationwide operational deployment for all of India (called Digital Sky). \u00a0The system integrates different kinds of ground and air based sensors for detecting cooperative or noncooperative traffic, such as radar, \u00a0ADSBN and RF detection systems. They all feed into the system, which fuses into actional data to ensure the safety of their air space.\u00a0 UTM is a framework and a foundational block. It\u2019s not the end all be all. It\u2019s an enabler for the whole ecosystem. As the number of drones in the sky increases, as we see small, medium and large unmanned aircraft, we will need a UTM system that can enable that activity to occur safely.\u00a0\u00a0 As far as a timeline goes for air integration, expect to see cargo and packages, larger scale, like mid to large size UAVs happening before we see actually people moving around.\u00a0 UTM is also evolving as an \u2018enabler.\u2019 \u00a0It\u2019s going to enable more scaled operations, more beyond visual line of sight operations and greater safety. And there\u2019ll be different aspects of UTM that will become more prominent as we move to omore complex use cases.<\/li>\n
  • Mission Management Platform.<\/strong>\u00a0ANRA\u2019s Mission Management system is designed for the whole life cycle management for enterprise drone operations.\u00a0 It provides a way to track assets, track resources, flight planning, \u00a0capturing data, getting the data into the system, analyzing the data and pushing the actionable results into the enterprise system. And it keeps evolving. It\u2019s used by enterprises. It\u2019s used by fortune 50 enterprises in the U.S. and internationally as well.\u00a0 The system ties into the UTM system seamlessly, but someone could use the mission management system without the UTM system. As companies scal operations, they can expand the system.\u00a0 Industries where the greatest traction is found include the pipeline inspection, power inspection, construction site inspection, and critical infrastructure inspection, etc.<\/li>\n
  • Success Factors.<\/strong>\u00a0A lot of people get excited about this industry and everyone wants a part of the pie, but ANRA Technlogies came at it from inside out. They helped build the system, define the interface and the standards. \u00a0That\u2019s helped them gain a foothold in the industry.\u00a0 ANRA Technologies never strayed from their core mission. \u00a0The never had to pivot or change their focus. They\u2019re strategy has always been to identify the problem and solve the problem versus build a solution and then find the problem. They\u2019ve also been very customer focused. They believe in cooperation and teamwork, and that\u2019s been extremely successful. For them, it\u2019s teamwork, collaboration and cooperation.<\/li>\n
  • Deployment<\/strong>. Countries may vary somewhat, but in general, UTM systems will be deployed at the national level.\u00a0 In all likelihood, there\u2019s not going to be a single system that does everything. For example, the FAA may run some services around airports. But outside of that, industry may be called upon to fill the gaps, so long as the various systems can communicate with each other and meet the standards \/ requirements set by the FAA.<\/li>\n
  • Closing<\/strong>. Amit closes by saying that air space integration is gaining acceptance. \u00a0\u00a0It take a while to achieve, but it\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0 He encourages those who want to be ready for the future to look at what ANRA Technologies can offer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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