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Terra Drone Corporation has successfully demonstrated to Taiwanese government officials an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system developed jointly with Unifly.
The test run of the UTM was conducted at Fukushima Robot Test
Field in Japan in the presence of more than a dozen officials from Taiwan’s
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Industrial Technology
Research Institute, National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology,
and Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards.
Several leading private companies, such as Drone Dynamics
and C-Link Technology, were also part of the delegation.
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The demonstration set out to showcase how real-time tracking and controlling of multiple drones could help to bridge the gap between manned and unmanned airspace and ensure safe drone operations for all.
Yosuke Kaneko, head of UTM at Terra Drone, commented: “The
Taiwanese government realizes how important UTM is for safe and efficient drone
operations, and is exploring the possibility of deploying our UTM system in the
country.”
He added: “In the future, no country will allow drone
operations without knowing who is flying the drone and where.”
