ANRA launches VISTA, an interface for reading shared drone traffic

(02)Reading declared traffic, without modifying the aircraft

ANRA Technologies presented ANRA VISTA on 14 October 2026, for Visual Interface for Shared Traffic Awareness. The application displays flight intentions and positions reported by other drones, as made available by unmanned traffic management (UTM) services. It operates in receive-only mode: it does not connect the aircraft to the UTM and does not file any flight plan.

The operator consults this information around their mission area before take-off, then monitors it during the flight. ANRA states that no drone, no flight application and no operating procedure need to be modified. The tool adds to the systems already in place.

Amit Ganjoo, founder and chief executive officer of ANRA, summarises the rationale: “As more organisations operate drones in the same airspace, knowing what may be flying nearby becomes more important.” He adds that VISTA makes this information easier to access without requiring operators to change the way they fly.

The company supports its argument with its own volume. Its UTM platform handles approximately one drone mission every 15 seconds during the day, and more than 55,000 commercial operations per month. More than 20 organisations, mostly Drone as First Responder (DFR) programmes, already use its visualisation capability. The Shared Airspace UTM Consortium, for its part, reports more than 1.5 million UAS flights supported by UTM services without a safety incident.

DFR programmes send a drone to the scene before ground teams, to obtain an image of the scene as quickly as possible. In the same area, several organisations may fly aircraft at the same time, and each sees only part of that traffic.

(03)Demonstrations on request, commercial terms not published

ANRA offers demonstrations to interested organisations. The announcement gives no pricing, licensing model or list of data formats. The execution environment is not specified, nor are the technical arrangements for accessing the UTM feeds that supply the display.

One integration point is nevertheless documented: VISTA replaces neither aircraft, nor flight applications, nor operational tools. ANRA presents the application as a complement to existing safety procedures, not as a substitute. For a service that already runs an operations desk, the addition is therefore limited to an extra information window, with no new connection between the aircraft and a service provider.

(04)A situational awareness tool, not a radar

ANRA writes that VISTA complements safety procedures and does not detect every drone present in the sky. The application depends on the information available in the UTM ecosystem: an aircraft that declares nothing does not appear there. An operator flying in an area where few flights are declared will see little traffic there. The wording matters for anyone seeking safety monitoring of flight volume.

European coverage remains the main unknown. The announcement documents no integration with European traffic sources or with U-space services, the European framework for digital drone traffic management services (identification, geo-awareness, flight authorisation). No partner U-space service provider is named, and no availability date for Europe is given.

(05)For DFR programmes, inspection and BVLOS preparation

ANRA cites two families of use. Emergency services first: VISTA shows other drone operations near an incident scene, which helps DFR teams decide during the response. Infrastructure operators next: energy companies, network managers and commercial programmes gain visibility around inspections and maintenance missions.

Preparing a BVLOS mission depends upstream on knowledge of the declared traffic in the target volume. This knowledge weighs on the drafting of a SORA dossier and on the safety of a flight in shared airspace, two points that the operator documents in their risk analysis before applying for an authorisation.

Traffic concerned is increasing. Amazon plans to reach nearly 500 cities and municipalities by the end of 2026, while Wing and Walmart are building a network targeting more than 270 drone delivery sites. In Europe, Norway is opening U-space sandbox trials. No availability date for VISTA on the European market has been announced.