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The requirements for the operation of unmanned aircrafts for commercial and semi-professional purposes have changed fundamentally in the past years in Europe and worldwide.
The regulations will get even more strictly in the future.
Depending on the application, the weight, the purpose, the situation, the flight area, spectators and some more reasons, SAFETY is becoming increasingly important.
Even if one repeatedly hears times here and there by the aviation authorities that they grant special rights for certain user groups (e.g. film industry, logistic companies…), so it is at the end the insurance, which restricts a project or even makes it impossible.

Please check also a statement from Poms & Associates:

Single point of failure and redundancy became one of the leading keywords for permissions and certifications from authorities and insurances.
Among other parts inside a system, redundancy of the autopilot system is meanwhile mandatory to follow the rules (here in Austria…other States will follow), especially for multicopters. They are very instable in their flight characteristics when it comes to malfunction of the stabilization system.

We therefore developed a redundancy circuit board which is an intelligent and automatic monitoring and controlling bridge between two independent running autopilot systems, a mutual protection in case of malfunction in an autopilot system.
Even if both autopilots fail (power supply, freezing controller…), the forwarding of the control signals for a manual flight of the aircraft or helicopter (not recommended for multicopters) is granted.

This system also offers the possibility to switch manually between two different autopilot systems to test different software and system setups. The data of each autopilot system can be monitored and changed during the flight separately Another benefit of the AP-Manager (this is the name of the upcoming product) is that for the most autopilots only one telemetry module is needed to monitor data of both autopilot systems (except DJI).

Hence the AP-Manager© is the perfect companion to test the most recent updates or new parameter upgrades for your autopilot systems.

Currently, these autopilot systems have been tested successfully:
•    Ardupilots 2.5/ 2.6
•    PX4 Pixhawk
•    DJI NAZA V2
•    MikroKopter Flight Ctrl ME 2.1

Basically there is no reason that other autopilot systems from other manufacturers won’t work. The board has been designed that all ports are compatible with the common used autopilot systems.

My name is Robert Hoermann and I am the managing director of GIZMOtec Ltd. in Austria.
We will start our campaign within the next 10 days to fund the AP-Manager to share this idea and benefits to the large community of unmanned systems and RC models.
We would like to invite you to visit our new website on www.GIZMOtec.eu (sorry, some construction is still in progress) to enter for a newsletter to be one of the first parties to get informed, when the Indiegogo campaign will start.

We also implemented some first FAQ's and a discussion forum.

When starting the Indiegogo campaign we will also provide a “limited early bird” offer.

Thank you for joining us.

With very best regards,

Robert