Smart and sustainable aviation

We focus on developing transportation in both urban and rural environments. We are particularly interested in leveraging automation, autonomy, and data analytics to improve logistics, as well as in developing aviation test areas. Key challenges we aim to address include long distances, arctic weather conditions, and low population density.

Our focus is particularly on testing the safety of devices and providing recommendations for safe equipment, safe flight operations, as well as various data security issues related to data storage, processing, and analysis. We have chosen this theme as the centerpiece of our work because our location in Finland, the EU’s longest border neighbor with Russia, entails a special responsibility for data security and safe data usage. The Arctic weather conditions also pose their own unique characteristics for flight safety.

Unmanned aviation and drones can bring significant benefits to agriculture and forestry.

We promote the use of drones in agriculture and forestry by monitoring and influencing the application of legislation and promoting cooperation with authorities in the field. Our goal is to improve the efficiency of the sector through the use of drones (e.g., spraying drones vs. tractors) and to harness the latest expertise, such as data analytics, to benefit the industry, for example, in improving results and reducing environmental impacts.

Key challenges we aim to address include: northern weather conditions, short growing seasons, and the complexity of legislation.