RTM Drone Traffic Management Canadian Energy UTM

In Canada, UTM is sometimes referred to as RTM,  Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Traffic Management.  Whatever you call it, it’s a complex system of technologies working together, and can be difficult to visualize.  At flight demonstration activities as part of the Energy UTM Trials, supervised by Transport Canada and NAV Canada, AirMarket, and IT provider TELUS Corp. demonstrated the SKYLINK business solution at an energy site – and the resulting video shows how the pieces can come together.

“The SKYLINK Business Solution is an integrated framework including UTM, drones-optimized cellular connectivity and application back-end servers hosting environment, Computer Vision and an operational concept, that allows for the use of multiple drones to efficiently conduct infrastructure surveillance in the national airspace as illustrated in this video,” says a press release.

“Mobility services provide the…