Do you remember that it was a novelty to discover a drone in the sky? Now it is like playing a whack-a-mole with aircraft. Delivery dronesPresent Military dronePresent AI droneHobby drones – Our sky is more bustling than the queue in airport safety. Without air traffic control, we are a step of Midair collisions and drones away and argue about parking spaces.
Enter Airdodge, a Norwegian startup that gets in to tame chaos. The company based in Oslo has just secured a round of financing of $ 500,000, which is led by VC companies Nordic Makers and antlers. The investment will help Airdodge develop its U-space software platform in order to manage large-scale drone operations across Europe.
“At Airdodge we imagine a future in which drones seamlessly integrate into airspace and contribute positively to various industries and at the same time ensure security and compliance,” said Umar Chughtai, who founded AirdoDGE 2022. U-space platform that bring us closer to the realization of this vision. ”
The Airdodge platform offers a real-time map of drone activity and aims to simplify the process of receiving flight permits. The technology matches the EUS U-room Standards that are “Developed to enable safe, efficient and safe access to airspace for a large number of unmanned aircraft that work automatically and beyond the visual line of vision. “”
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In 2018, London Gatwick Airport had to be closed After drones had been flown near the runway. The incident concerned around 1,000 flights and 140,000 passengers. Many similar incidents have occurred over the years Stockholm To Frankfurt.
If the tech of Airdo gave during the Gatwick fiasco, it would have discovered the villain drones in real time, faster as airport safety and possibly flying flights smoothly. By enforcing FL-Fly zones and the synchronization of drones with air traffic control, the platform may have saved 140,000 passengers a lot of headache (and missed connections).
“Drone technology has the potential to have a positive effect on society, the economy and public services, but there is still no way to ensure security,” said Kristian Jul Røsjø, partner at Antler. “Top -class disorders hinder the development of this technology and Airdodge will offer an urgently needed solution.”
Airdodge will use the prepared financing to accelerate the development of its platform. The company aims to start the alpha version in mid-2025.
The market for drone services is increasing throughout the EU. One projection The assessment of € 14.5 billion until 2030 and 145,000 new jobs. But if drones multiply, the challenges do it too.
“We have the drones, but we lack the infrastructure,” said Nima Tisdall, partner at Nordic Makers. “In this case, the infrastructure are not streets, plumber or electrical wires. but essential communication systems. “
Tisdall added that Airdodge had unusual strengths for the region.
“The founding team is energetic and ambitious qualities that are surprisingly rare in Nordic entrepreneurs, but an essential part of the construction of a category-wins business,” she said. “We are pleased to support a local player who can help to unlock the large -scale introduction of drones across Europe.”
