Expansive Situational Awareness on

43" 4K Touch Display

A 1-meter wide 4K display in front of you provides a wide immersive view of the navigation environment of your UAV and other assets nearby. It typically displays a top down map as navigation display, but can show other information as well, including live video feeds from the aircraft.

The touch interface provides an intuitive interface to select items for more information, or to control, or for other tasks.

Convenient UxV Control on

27" QHD Touch Display

It would not be convenient if you needed to keep your arms raised to the big screen for detailed management.

Like a large tablet, a 27" QHD touch display nearly flat on your desk provides you with detailed information about the item selected, allowing you to plan missions efficiently, or to control the UxV easily.

Physical Buttons

Sometimes there are actions that require a physical button for confirmation. A built-in set of buttons provide a certified interface to the SolGCS computers. 

Space For Your Stuff

Real missions require literal paperwork, coffee and stuff. The desk leaves space free to make sure you can execute missions without paper in your lap.

Mission Monitoring

Mission monitoring requires that you have accurate and up to date information, presented in the right format. 

SolGCS can display real cockpit views with PFD/ND and EICAS information systems, much like the cockpit of a real aircraft. It can also display live video from the drone.

Certified software tends to be slow, with update rates as low as 1 Hz in many cases, due to the restriction imposed on certified software, and sheer amount of information to process.

SolGCS is certified to the highest levels, and yet it provides a smooth and responsive user interface. 

Mission Planning

SolGCS allows to plan missions by setting mission waypoints and payload waypoints in 3 dimensions. Missions can be validated, and upon confirmation seamlessly uploaded to the aircraft(s).

Real-Time Control

SolGCS allows to send direct commands to UxV for live control of the vehicle. Typical examples are landing spot (or target) acquisition, landing confirmation or firing authorization.

Joystick Control

Optionally, a joystick is provided for interactive real-time control. This is optional because in BVLOS UxV, the latency does not safely allow interactive control. In many UxV, autonomous modes are the norm.

Early Warning System

Optionally, mission plans and real-time control will be checked against vehicle constraints and terrain maps to verify they can be executed. This is particularly important for certified aircraft, where missions plans need to be evaluated against restricted fly zones, elevation maps, aircraft safety constraints, and other factors.

Multiple UxV

Each SolGCS can monitor up to 1000 assets, and can control up to 64 UxV. Multiple SolGCSes can be combined to control larger fleets. 

Multiple Pilots

Multiple pilots on different SolGCS stations can see the same drones and command them. This allows the team of pilots to work collaboratively. The GCS intelligence will notify of any conflicts and resolve them. Each aircraft requires only a single connection to the ground, even when multiple pilots are monitoring the aircraft.

Centralized Intelligence & Swarming

SolGCS can provide swarming for up to 250 UAV at once. 

For instance, you can select a number of aircraft, set a target waypoint, select aircraft separation and an arrival pattern, and SolGCS will automatically compute the optimal path for all aircraft, taking into account constraints such as no-fly zones, terrain, different flight times for different routes for the desired arrival pattern.

It is also possible to control loitering ammunition using SolGCS.

UxV Intelligence

SolGCS can work with UxV that make autonomous decisions and have their own local swarming logic.

Using Dynamic Large UAV Fleets

SolGCS provides a secure and efficient method for an UxV to register its online status and availability for command operations from a certain location. 

This capability is critical in military operations, where command centers must manage continuous missions involving the dynamic addition of new UxVs, and existing UxV are dropping out.  It is equally valuable for large fleets, as it allows UxVs to be seamlessly integrated without the need for manual reconfiguration of the ground station, ensuring efficient and uninterrupted operations.

Custom Communication Protocols

SolGCS has a plugin specification architecture that allows to add new communication protocols. So no matter which communication protocol you use, Sol1 can link it to the SolGCS by specifying a plug-in for it.

Custom UxV Icon

You can configure the icon to use for your UxV on navigation maps. 

Custom Visualizations

The SolGCS plug-in specification architecture can be used to specify custom displays. For instance, your UAV may have a patient on board and you may want to display the medical data such as the heart beat and other medical metrics. Sol1 can create any visualisation you need by specifying a SolGCS plug-in.

EuroCAE ED-311

MOPS for Command Unit Core Layer of UAS to be operated in the EASA certified category of operations

This standard is slated to come out in 2025. Implementation in SolGCS is ongoing.

RTCA DO-178C

EuroCAE ED-12C

Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification

SolGCS is compliant up to 

Design Assurance Level A 

(DAL A - highest safety), 

including Amendment N°1.

RTCA DO-356A

EuroCAE ED-203A

Airworthiness Security Methods and Considerations

SolGCS is compliant with 

Security Assurance Level 3 

(SAL 3 - highest security).

RTCA DO-254

EuroCAE ED-80

Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware

SolGCS is compliant up to 

Design Assurance Level A 

(DAL A - highest safety).

NATO STANAG-4671 Ed. 3

NATO AEP-4671 Ed. B 

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airworthiness Requirements (USAR)

SolGCS is compliant with respect to the ground system aspects.

NATO STANAG 4586 Ed. 4

NATO AEP-84 Ed. A

Standard Interfaces of UA Control System (UCS) for NATO UA Interoperability

Implementation in SolGCS is ongoing.

NATO STANAG 4609 Ed. 5

NATO MISP-2019.1

NATO Digital Motion Imagery Standard

SolGCS is compliant for reception.

MAVLINK

Micro Air Vehicle Communication Protocol

Out of the box, SolGCS is compliant both with standard MAVLink and with the PixHawk dialect of MAVLink. SolGCS can communicate with any PixHawk device without any GCS development.

SolDMS

Sol Datalink & Data Management System

SolGCS is out of the box compatible with SolDMS, which is a computer onboard a UxV that controls the datalink, and distributes the data to other onboard subsystems.