Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are increasingly integrating into today’s airspace, providing different capabilities such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data for both civil and military applications.
To address the needs of this quickly maturing sector, there has been a lot of activity in the 3GPP Working Groups to ensure that the 5G system will meet the connectivity needs of Unmanned Aerial Systems – consisting of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and UAV controllers under the watchful eye of UAS traffic management.
