uAvionix has launched Trakr, a new suite of hardware and services that extends its FlightLine airspace surveillance platform to include real-time monitoring of customer-owned drone operations alongside ADS-B data from aircraft.
By integrating Trakr’s UAS-specific position feeds with FlightLine’s ADS-B aircraft surveillance, uAvionix now delivers a complete picture of low-altitude airspace for operators conducting critical missions including those beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) such as Drone as First Responder (DFR), infrastructure inspection, wildfire response and range management.
Trakr enables uAvionix to provide operators with a private UAS tracking ecosystem integrated with the FlightLine platform for the display and monitoring of UAS operations. The Trakr device, a compact, low-SWaP transmitter affixed to each drone, broadcasts real-time GPS position over the 915 MHz ISM band. The signal is received by either a permanently installed TrakrStation or the portable, battery-powered TrakrStationLTE and transmitted to the cloud-based FlightLine portal.
The result is what the company calls a “single pane of glass” containing ADS-B aircraft and customer operations data from Trakr-equipped drones, enabling operators to see and separate their own drones from nearby aircraft, other UAS and obstacles in real time, through the uAvionix FlightLine UI or API integrated into third-party airspace management tools.
For data privacy, Trakr feeds are exclusive to the customer’s FlightLine account. The Trakr platform allows post-landing flight data to be exported for metrics for due-diligence reporting.
Trakr is available for preorder.
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