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INDUSTRY WATCH
RIGHT NOW, LOW-ALTITUDE
AIRSPACE, PARTICULARLY
IN URBAN AREAS, LIES
VIRTUALLY EMPTY.
Evgeni Borisov, CEO,
VIMANA Global
hardened to international aviation safety
and security standards. Some vehicles will,
after all, carry human passengers. It may
surprise you to know that such a network
has already entered the testing phase and
could be deployed within the next decade
in Dubai.
Based on a peer-to-peer distributed ledger
platform, it enables air-traffic control
communications-latency levels below
200 milliseconds and delivers 99.999%
uptime, or just over five minutes a year of
downtime. This enables a real-time view
of all active craft, via GPS co-ordinates,
including deviations from flight plans. It
allows communication between airborne
and ground-based nodes, as well as between
aircraft, and compliance with all air-traffic
control protocols.
Industry observers expect the blockchain
airspace to be a US$1 trillion business
by 2035, with off-surface blockchain
infrastructure accounting for 36% of this,
and urban air mobility accounting for
26%. These two areas together would
enable passenger and cargo carriage in our
envisioned smart cities. But a further 10%
of revenue is expected from the agriculture
90
INTELLIGENTCIO
industry, servicing the need for feeding a
growing global population by expanding
fields and crop yields.
Safer roads, reduced commute times,
increased crop yields, faster cargo delivery; the
possibilities are endless. This sounds like the
smart city of which we have been dreaming:
humming skies and quieter streets. n
SAP expert
on how digital
transformation
is driving
growth in
aviation
www.intelligentcio.com