TY - GEN
T1 - Identification of Emerging Safety and Security Risks in Drone Operations at Work Sites
AU - Tiusanen, Risto
AU - Heikkilä, Eetu
AU - Välisalo, Tero
AU - Öz, Emrehan
N1 - Funding Information:
The work presented in this paper is part of the ‘DroLo’ project funded by
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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/2/16
Y1 - 2023/2/16
N2 - The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), drones, is strongly increasing in various purposes in industry and in different sectors of society in general. Digital transformation is a megatrend also in aviation and it will bring significant changes to manned and unmanned aviation. Drones are already widely used e.g., in surveillance and security control tasks and in rescue and search missions. The use of UAV technology and related systems in everyday work processes and tasks will change many of the traditional operations and services. Drone based services are going towards high autonomy and drones will soon operate over the populated areas. Drones and their operating systems and energy supply systems are new assets. The safety and security implications and risks of these systems are still not well known among the drone operators and people affected by nearby flying equipment. To solve these challenges and to manage new risks several international activities are ongoing. European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has defined new risk-based categories for drone operations: open, specific, and certified. A risk assessment method SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) has been developed by EASA for the analysis and assessment of air and ground risks in specific category drone operations. The aim of our study is to create understanding of UAV related emerging risks at work sites in urban areas. In this paper we first review and discuss air and ground risks that are under consideration in SORA when applying the operational authorisation for specific category drone operations. We also look beyond the scope covered by the SORA assessment and identify other indirect risks or safety implications associated with drone operations when there are people working nearby. In addition to safety risks, we also introduce potential security threats and discuss their implications in drone operations.
AB - The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), drones, is strongly increasing in various purposes in industry and in different sectors of society in general. Digital transformation is a megatrend also in aviation and it will bring significant changes to manned and unmanned aviation. Drones are already widely used e.g., in surveillance and security control tasks and in rescue and search missions. The use of UAV technology and related systems in everyday work processes and tasks will change many of the traditional operations and services. Drone based services are going towards high autonomy and drones will soon operate over the populated areas. Drones and their operating systems and energy supply systems are new assets. The safety and security implications and risks of these systems are still not well known among the drone operators and people affected by nearby flying equipment. To solve these challenges and to manage new risks several international activities are ongoing. European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has defined new risk-based categories for drone operations: open, specific, and certified. A risk assessment method SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) has been developed by EASA for the analysis and assessment of air and ground risks in specific category drone operations. The aim of our study is to create understanding of UAV related emerging risks at work sites in urban areas. In this paper we first review and discuss air and ground risks that are under consideration in SORA when applying the operational authorisation for specific category drone operations. We also look beyond the scope covered by the SORA assessment and identify other indirect risks or safety implications associated with drone operations when there are people working nearby. In addition to safety risks, we also introduce potential security threats and discuss their implications in drone operations.
KW - drone
KW - UAV
KW - unmanned aerial vehicles
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-25448-2_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-25448-2_47
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85151146580
SN - 9783031254475
T3 - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
SP - 499
EP - 507
BT - 16th WCEAM Proceedings, 2022
A2 - Crespo Márquez, Adolfo
A2 - Gómez Fernández, Juan Francisco
A2 - González-Prida Díaz, Vicente
A2 - Amadi-Echendu, Joe
PB - Springer
T2 - 16th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, WCEAM 2022
Y2 - 5 October 2022 through 7 October 2022
ER -