Innovative Air Mobility is one of the most immediate challenges. The freight and passenger transport in cities and the provision of infrastructure to operate autonomous vehicles in the urban environment represent a unique opportunity.
Ineco has promoted the creation of the first association in the sector in Spain, the SIAM (Spanish Innovative Air Mobility) cluster. This association will bring together and represent the needs of the innovative air services sector before Spanish and European governmental bodies, as well as promote technological development through collaboration between research centres, the productive fabric, companies in the sector and public administrations. SIAM will also seek to promote the provision of infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicles to operate in the urban environment. The creation of SIAM will facilitate the entry of innovation into the market through collaboration in the creation of new business models.
Technical information
More than 30 years of experience
Ineco, with more than 30 years of experience in all types of work in airports and air navigation in Spain and abroad, began to explore the possibilities of drones a decade ago. Both using them in their own work (structure inspection, calibration of radio aids) and providing support to aeronautical authorities, in regulatory development (drafting of the Strategic Plan for the Civil Aviation Directorate General, 2017), inspections and authorisations for AESA or in the management and coordination of requests for drone operations for ENAIRE.
It has also been developing its own drone innovation projects (digital twins) for years, and participates, together with other companies and institutions, in initiatives at national level (e.g. railway inspection with HelixNorth and ADIF) and, as part of the ENAIRE group, in large European projects, within the SESAR 3 or "Digital Single Sky" programme, such as EUREKA, SPATIO, ENSURE, U-ELCOME and, previously, AMU-LED and TERRA, among others.
