Pierce Aerospace introduced that it labored with the Division of Homeland Safety and different federal, state, and native companies to deploy Distant ID to assist the NFL’s Tremendous Bowl LVII. That is the primary occasion of Distant ID utilization in operational assist of a Nationwide Particular Safety Occasion. Pierce Aerospace deployed its Bluebird Distant ID Receivers and B1 Distant ID Beacons round State Farm Stadium to assist airspace operations for NFL coordinated broadcast flights, a industrial drone swarm, and in assist of regulation enforcement drone flights and operations.
Pierce Aerospace supplied its ASTM F3411-22 compliant B1 Distant ID beacons to pilots for FAA-approved industrial drone flights and regulation enforcement drone operations. Bluebird Distant ID Receivers have been deployed across the stadium and used to efficiently detect, observe, and determine the geared up drones within the week main as much as the Tremendous Bowl and on sport day. Utilizing COPERS, a web-based situational consciousness instrument developed by KBR, Inc., native broadcast messages collected by the Pierce Aerospace’s Receiver Community and Distant ID information feeds have been routed to COPERS for airspace exercise monitoring. COPERS, which stands for Command Oversight or Personnel, Tools, Response and State of affairs, was made obtainable to federal and native regulation enforcement finish customers throughout safety command parts to watch the Distant ID information feeds each on-site and remotely.
“We have been working with the Division of Protection since 2018 to take native broadcast Distant ID messages and community them to numerous tiers of finish customers in DOD experimental occasions. It was thrilling to take the institutional data that we have developed through the years and deploy it for the primary time in assist of real-world nationwide safety operations on the Tremendous Bowl,” mentioned Aaron Pierce, CEO of Pierce Aerospace. “This was an operational check of Distant ID earlier than formally rolling it out as an FAA regulatory requirement in September. I am pleased to share that this deployment emphasised ‘operational.'”
“Pierce Aerospace’s Distant ID merchandise and their integration capabilities helped ease the Command and Management of the Tremendous Bowl LVII Momentary Flight Restriction [TFR] when it got here to licensed vs unauthorized UAS operations,” mentioned Greg Bean, Particular Operations Safety for the FAA. “We stay up for the total roll out of the FAA’s Distant ID rule in September 2023.”
“KBR was excited to supply COPERS to Pierce Aerospace because the show supplier and customary working image for his or her Distant ID functionality on the Tremendous Bowl,” mentioned Preston Hoeve, COPERS Principal Investigator for KBR. “COPERS supplied a number of layers of distributed authorities stakeholders with a method to supervise the airspace information streamed from Pierce Aerospace’s sensors on the Tremendous Bowl. KBR seems ahead to persevering with to work with Pierce Aerospace to supply this functionality to native, state, tribal, and federal stakeholders enhancing the security of their communities.”
Pierce Aerospace engineers extensively examined Distant ID in flight and floor assessments main as much as the Tremendous Bowl in and across the State Farm Stadium space. Floor testing continued in parallel to flight operations on sport day itself. Pierce Aerospace engineers used each Pierce Aerospace and commercially obtainable third-party developed Distant ID Android functions to efficiently detect and observe the corporate’s B1 Beacons inside State Farm Stadium throughout the Tremendous Bowl and throughout the halftime present.
“To our data, this was the harshest stress check that Distant ID has seen to this point,” mentioned Pierce.” Almost 73,000 followers have been inside that stadium. All with cell telephones and different WiFi and Bluetooth emitting gadgets, lots of whom have been streaming or importing photographs and video throughout the halftime present. We’re pleased to share that our engineers efficiently detected and tracked our Distant ID beacons with telephones contained in the stadium throughout this high-noise flooring occasion.”
“We’re tremendously grateful to the NFL, our federal clients, our College of Notre Dame and Rose-Hulman Ventures companions, and the native departments, particularly Glendale and Tempe Police Departments, for working with us to operationalize Distant ID for the primary time. We’re grateful to the pilots at NFL Movies, ESPN, FOX Sports activities, Beverly Hills Aerials, Fly With Me, Skyway Interactive, the Glendale Police Division, Shock Hearth-Medical Division, and Pixis Drones, who made aviation historical past by equipping with Distant ID for the primary time in assist of a Nationwide Safety operation. Everybody who participated needs to be happy with the function they performed in advancing the chances of the following period of aviation,” mentioned Pierce.