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Digital air traffic control for Authorities

Skypuzzler’s core innovation, integrated Digital Air Traffic Control (iDATC), provides a holistic airspace view, enabling drones to maintain adjustable separation minima, flight prioritisation, and dynamic deconfliction, all essential for safe BVLOS single-flight or swarm operations in mixed airspace.

Enabling scalable and safe drone autonomy

Today, most European drone operations are constrained by a “one pilot – one drone” paradigm. This model severely limits scalability, as each additional drone requires a dedicated human operator. While some operators experiment with drone swarms, these are typically deployed in isolated or restricted areas with minimal integration into shared airspace.

Skypuzzler’s core innovation, integrated Digital Air Traffic Control (iDATC), is an advanced Tactical Conflict Resolution Service (CRS) designed to overcome the “one-pilot-one-drone” bottleneck. Capable of real-time integration with UTM, iDATC provides a holistic airspace view, enabling drones to maintain adjustable separation minima, flight prioritisation, and dynamic deconfliction, all essential for safe BVLOS single-flight or swarm operations in mixed airspace.

Automated CRS directly addresses these challenges by:

Supporting the three layers of conflict management defined in ICAO Doc 9854 - the Global ATM Operational Concept (GATMOC).
Enabling air risk assessment (ARA) and capacity management functions required for SORA Annex H and U-space service provision.
Allowing human-on-the-loop oversight rather than continuous human control.

Regulatory context

European U-space regulation (EU 2021/664 and associated standards) and the upcoming FAA Part 108 in the United States create the framework for routine BVLOS flights. However, both acknowledge that human oversight alone cannot manage the complexity of dense low-altitude traffic.

Acting as a critical layer

Conflict Resolution Services (CRS)

Strategic and tactical separation management

Providing strategic and tactical separation management that ensures drones remain safely separated throughout the flight, beyond mere awareness.

Conflict detection

Strengthening the Air Risk Assessment (ARA) process under SORA, by offering quantified conflict detection and mitigation metrics in real time.

Automated decision tools

Supporting U-space service providers (USSPs) with automated decision tools that reduce reliance on human operators, allowing them to manage far greater airspace capacity.

Cross-operator coordination

Enabling cross-operator coordination, ensuring that drones from different service providers can share the same U-space airspace without conflict.

Energy and Sustainability Benefits

Intelligent CRS routing reduces unnecessary manoeuvres, extending endurance by 5–15%. Experiments with adaptive trajectory optimisation show flight time gains of 7–14% depending on payload conditions (ArXiv 2021, ScienceDirect 2025)

Wider Economic value

Safe 1:n operations accelerate time-to-market for BVLOS business cases (delivery, inspection, emergency response), potentially unlocking multi-billion-euro service markets projected in EU Drone Strategy 2.0 and similar US forecasts.

Airspace and Asset Utilisation

CRS increases airspace throughput by 3–4x in dense environments by enabling closer performance-based separation and automated deconfliction. Tactical conflict management algorithms (e.g., PCAN) have demonstrated safe deconfliction with minimal overhead, even at higher densities (MDPI Sensors, 2021).

Cost Efficiency Through 1:n

Labour costs dominate drone OPEX: In current one-to-one BVLOS operations, pilot and observer costs typically represent 40–60% of total mission cost. Eliminating observers and enabling 1:n operations dramatically reduces this burden (FAA BEYOND / OIG 2025).

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