UTM & drone delivery

Drone delivery is here.
See the airspace it uses.

High-density drone detection and data delivery for UTM and drone-delivery operations. Connect supported observations to the systems coordinating increasingly busy low-altitude airspace.

A cargo delivery drone flying above a suburban landscape with a small parcel pod.
Low-altitude operationsRepresentative environment
THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Capacity is essential.
Freshness makes it useful.

A delivery network needs more than occasional sightings. It needs usable observations across the areas where aircraft launch, transit and arrive, including activity from other operators. The value of a track depends on its age, continuity, identity and geographic coverage as well as the number of aircraft the sensor can process.

AMS is designed to track hundreds of supported targets simultaneously with a single sensor. AirSentinel reports live-track delivery normally under one second over cellular, subject to configuration and network conditions. Cloud and local APIs let customers incorporate that intelligence into their own operational systems.

MISSION PRIORITIES

What the team
needs to know.

Monitor a busy operating area

Observe supported aircraft at operational density. Test update behavior under realistic load rather than extrapolating from a one-aircraft demonstration.

Connect the coverage footprint

Plan overlapping reception where the operation needs continuity, especially around buildings, launch areas and recurring routes.

Make the data interoperable

Deliver available aircraft information with agreed identifiers, timestamps and location semantics to the customer’s UTM or intelligence environment.

DEPLOYMENT DESIGN

Design for the site.
Validate in the field.

Remote ID reception provides useful broadcast identity and position, but it remains a reception-based observation. A Standard Remote ID control-station location and a broadcast-module takeoff point have different meanings. Unsupported or missing broadcasts create gaps that should remain visible in the operational data.

Dual-band ADS-B reception adds observations from suitably equipped aircraft on 978 and 1090 MHz. It broadens awareness of cooperative air traffic; it does not detect every aircraft or independently establish an approved detect-and-avoid capability. Radar and optical inputs can add complementary observations where the system requirements call for them.

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OPERATIONAL WORKFLOW

From observation
to coordinated action.

01

Define the data service

Specify the operating area, aircraft density, update needs, data fields and consumer interfaces.

02

Validate the network

Test representative flights, reception overlap, end-to-end timing and behavior when an input becomes stale or unavailable.

03

Connect operations

Feed AMS directly to the selected platform or use Atlas to combine compatible third-party sensors and export configured fused information.

04

Measure and expand

Review the observed coverage and data quality as delivery volume, routes and neighboring operations change.

OPEN ARCHITECTURE

Fit the operation.
Connect the intelligence.

UTM combines services for coordinating low-altitude drone operations. AirSentinel supplies sensing and intelligence inputs within that wider architecture. A received Remote ID track is distinct from an operator’s planned flight intent; associating the two requires the appropriate identifiers and interface. FAA describes UTM as a cooperative ecosystem with interoperable services. Sensor availability alone does not constitute an operational authorization. Explore the FAA UTM framework.

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SITE ACCEPTANCE

Prove the outcome
that matters.

Agree the acceptance criteria before the deployment, then exercise the full workflow.

Read the evaluation guide
  1. Simultaneous supported targets and update consistency at the required traffic density.
  2. Coverage continuity, data age and source identity across the operating footprint.
  3. Downstream handling of duplicate observations, missing fields and interrupted data.
INDUSTRY QUESTIONS

Details worth resolving.

Is an AMS receiver a complete UTM or detect-and-avoid system?

No. It provides sensing data for a broader operational architecture. UTM coordination, safety functions and operational approvals have their own requirements.

Why add ADS-B to Remote ID monitoring?

ADS-B can add received position reports from equipped aircraft to the awareness picture. Remote ID and ADS-B are different inputs, and neither alone covers every aircraft in the area.

FROM THE FIELD

Support the operation. Understand the airspace around it.

A manufacturing operator uses multiple sensors to support awareness around its own drone operations and identify unapproved third-party activity.

Read the deployment story

Bring current observations
into your airspace platform.

Plan for traffic density, coverage continuity and interoperable data delivery.

Plan your deployment