The European project Certiflight participated from 16 to 18 October in the Air Mobility Show - dedicated exclusively to electric aviation - and Rome Drone Conference, which is the main professional congress in Italy dedicated to the drone sector and advanced aerial mobility, which this year celebrated its tenth edition.
Participation in this forum has been a very positive experience for Certiflight because it has allowed the project to present its technology to international experts and operators. On this stage, Certiflight was able to meet, exchange information and obtain an updated picture of the market and its prospects.
Certiflight was represented by its Project Coordinator, Alberto Mennella, who presented the project, its objectives, and strengths to the attendees, highlighting that the market has already taken off and is on the way to stabilisation.
Mennella explained that Certiflight's technology is based on a small geolocation and remote identification device that allows the direct transmission of telemetry and position information of drones within a limited radius. In this regard, Certiflight has explained that its technology makes it possible to verify the legal validity of this data exchanged by the tracking service to other users. To do so, it exploits Galileo's Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) service, which allows a navigation signal to be sent from GNSS data, which is authenticated. This means that enabled receivers can decode the information securely and are unlikely to be affected by spoofing or intentional alterations.
The aim of Certiflight, as explained at the congress, is to ensure the origin and traceability of data using systems with authentication and security mechanisms, as well as its subsequent permanent recording in a blockchain structure without being altered.
Mennella also celebrated that the development of the technology is progressing well because this year it has been possible to integrate the device with different use cases and service providers.
