Autonomous Drone Flight Trials at Heathrow
End of last year, Carmenta, Thales, Herotech8 and Cranfield University carried out a series of successful drone flight trials within Heathrow Airport’s Flight Restriction Zone.
Read more
Flying BVLOS drones within London Heathrow Airport
Operating drones in highly congested urban environments is a challenge. To do it beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and autonomously, is an even greater challenge.
This is what Carmenta technology is currently being developed to address within the HADO® Project, initiated by Innovate UK. The goal is to implement the first real-world application of such as system at London Heathrow Airport.
The use cases in the project include perimeter surveillance, infrastructure inspection, incident inspection, and package delivery. Carmenta technology uses a high-resolution 3D model to generates an optimal route, considering obstacles such as buildings, restriction areas, overlapping UAS flight corridors, and sensor coverage. If the conditions for the route change, the route is regenerated and adapted in real-time.
In a series of videos, we will showcase various capabilities developed and used in the HADO® project, ranging from mission planning (tactical planning) to placing a camera path with area restrictions, conducting building inspection, and managing dynamic hazards and swarm routing.
Related news
Carmenta on the Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies 2025
Today, the annual ranking of the most innovative and influential companies shaping the geospatial industry was officially unveiled by Geoawesomeness. We are excited to announce that Carmenta has been recognized on this list for the third time.
Read more
Insights from our Customer Survey
At Carmenta, we work to ensure that our customers’ needs are at the heart of everything we do! Therefore, to understand our customers’ experiences, and how we can improve our products and services, we recently conducted a customer survey.
Read more