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Altitude Angel, a U.K. startup that provides safety, data and traffic management systems for drones, is launching a de-confliction service for drone flights — available via its developer API platform.“
"The dynamic system will continuously monitor the airspace around an aircraft for the 'unexpected' such as other aerial vehicles or changes to airspace (such as a Temporary Flight Restriction/Dynamic Geofence around a police incident)," it writes of the new service.
"After identifying a potential conflict, CRS will make the necessary routing adjustments, allowing the drone to maintain an appropriate separation standard between other airspace users or fly around restricted airspace so it can continue safely (and efficiently) to its destination."
The global Conflict Resolution Service (CRS) has two components: Strategic de-confliction, which will launch first, on July 23, letting drone operators submit flight plans to the startup to determine whether there are any conflicts with other previously submitted flight plans, or against ground and airspace geofenced areas available in Altitude Angel's worldwide data feeds.
[...] The second component — which will launch in late September — is called Tactical de-confliction. This will provide information to drone pilots or the drone itself to ensure separation is maintained during the in-flight phase.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/altitude-angel-launches-an-api-for-safer-drone-flights/
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 24 2019, @07:26PM
"Ban everything, all airspace is dangerous, fill out this flight plan and submit in triplicate for any flight over 30 ft"
An API that the people writing drone software can use automatically? How are we supposed to xerox that and stick it in a filing cabinet?
(Score: 3, Informative) by rigrig on Wednesday July 24 2019, @08:33PM
I'm guessing the idea is to cheaply provide this service, making the world a better place while making a reasonable profit.
Up until the moment when the network effect means every drone operator is pretty much required (quite possibly by law) to use their service and the totally unexpected buy-out+price hike occurs.
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday July 24 2019, @08:33PM (1 child)
Sounds like an interesting idea if everyone cooperates and nobody is a crook or cheater. In other words, not on this planet, LOL.
Sometimes its fun to follow adversarial conflict thru multiple back and forth rounds.
So how will they work around the Streisand effect of people thinking they're hacking the system by submitting semi-bogus reports?
And the counter-reaction of hackers of the hackers who search for the nude beach or celebrity wedding or whatever by possibly using AI or turk or just perseverance to check out any semi-bogus appearing reports because that's precisely where the cool stuff is?
Lets say I was smuggling something... I could have a fleet of drones making fake pizza deliveries cover the city and what I'm really looking for is "Temporary Flight Restriction/Dynamic Geofence around a police incident" areas. Now comes the puzzler, do I run my cargo past the cops who are really busy doing something else in certain areas, or do I run my cargo somewhere far away from all known cop areas? Cops aren't going to allow civilian surveillance drones where they're running surveillance... or are they? Given a data source for criminals, I'm sure they'll figure out how to use it.
So if I'm in a wealthy neighborhood stealing amazon deliveries, I just need to fly my panhandler-bot up and down the block until Amazon conflicts my drone out of a house delivery, then swoop in and steal the freshly delivered package? Like, this is almost too easy? I don't even need a drone I just need a program on my phone that emulates 150 pizza delivery drones at the software API level? Like I don't even need to be there, I can have a dude outside the USA maybe no extradition treaty F with the API?
They're probably smart enough not to geofence a mansion backyard with a "type code" of "private celebrity wedding plz no cameras hint hint". But they are probably dumb enough to provide a list of geofenced locations that can be rubbed up against a list of hot or recently engaged celebrities and addresses of celebrities that could theoretically be announced as a geofence.
I guess they'll have to run it like a crypto counter intel operation; advertise lots of false data and beat the hell out of anyone who bites at the false data.
I'm just saying its gonna look like a big bright searchlight of "cool stuff happening here" and people with weird goals are going to show up precisely where the system tries to repel drones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 25 2019, @02:05AM
All above while drones with no geofencing restrictions are still a thing for any maker with a modicum of skills and under $500 budget from on-eBay components.
I know! Make the makers movement a terrorist organisation.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 25 2019, @01:42AM (2 children)
Your "one stop shop for X" - worked out great for Google and Amazon - Pets.com, Webvan, GeoCities, DrKoop, eToys, etc... not so much.
This service will only work if the world beats a path to its door, which the world is not known for doing.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday July 25 2019, @09:28PM (1 child)
Look at their financial disclosures. If their biggest expense is lobbying, invest. This only works if they can become mandated and receive a government granted monopoly. The actual tech involved is trivial, it is all about getting that monopoly.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 25 2019, @09:45PM
Even with the monopoly, they still have to provide a service with value, get the data sources to volunteer the information to them in a timely fashion, and get the users to consult the data before/while flying.
Seems like a longshot.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 25 2019, @06:50PM
but how are you supposed to photograph (or bomb) them?