SAFIR-Ready
Obtain flight mission readiness, enabling rapid intervention for healthcare and critical infrastructure, leveraging all value chain actors and U-Space services
Provider: SESAR3 Joint Undertaking, topic: SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01
Duration: 06/2023 – 05/2026
Project Webpage: https://safir-ready.eu/
Description:
SAFIR-Ready aims to develop new U-Space services relevant for U3 and U4, that, together with a central Command and Control Center (C2C) and the development of an automated ground integration (Drone Cargo Port - DCP) will allow for automated time critical drone based services for medical and non-medical use cases. To achieve this, the consortium will focus on the development of a ‘Dynamic Capacity Management System’ (U3), ‘Detect And Avoid algorithms’ (U3) and ‘Machine To Machine communication and decision making’ (U4). The medical use cases have already been demonstrated in the predecessor project of SAFIR-Ready, SAFIR-Med. These use cases consist of (urgent) transport between of from hospital rooftops for clinical samples, blood products, medicines, and AED’s. The SAFIR-Ready project will extend these use cases with non-medical critical missions: Inspection flights for railways and electrical grids. These flights can be planned (e.g. routine inspections of infrastructure) but can also be time critical in case of unforeseen issues with the infrastructure (e.g. tree fallen on high tension cable). Shore to Ship for transport of materials, inspector, or pilotage passenger. The consortium will demonstrate the new U-Space services in executing the aforementioned use cases in three different regions: Antwerp (BE), Tartu (EE) and Flushing (NL) In parallel research will be done around social acceptance, privacy protection and environmental impact. The Figure below shows how one base set up, consisting of the Helicus Command and Control Center, a drone agnostic Drone Cargo Port and various UAV-types cover a various set of uses cases.
AgentFly Technologies Role:
In the SAFIR-Ready project, AgentFly Technologies (AFT) plays a key technical role by leading the development and deployment of a large-scale simulation and digital twin framework that underpins the validation of U-space services. AFT enhances its agent-based simulation platform to support the design, integration, and testing of advanced UAM operations (U3/U4), enabling pre-demonstration de-risking, airspace capacity assessments, and system interoperability checks across multiple sites. Their tools model complex airspace environments, traffic flows, and system interactions, providing a risk-free environment for validating procedures, operator training, and fallback planning. AFT also contributes to BVLOS-enabling interface development, data flow validation, and ensures simulation readiness for C2C–UAS–USSP integration. Additionally, AFT supports project-wide validation reporting, privacy-conscious simulation design, and dissemination of results through technical publications and stakeholder events. Their work ensures that SAFIR-Ready's demonstrations are operationally sound, technically robust, and scalable for future European U-space deployment.
