RTI and D3 Technologies become latest partners to join Varon Vehicles’ urban air mobility ecosystem in Latin America

Varon Vehi­cles has added two more com­pa­nies to its grow­ing ecosys­tem in Latin Amer­i­ca, announc­ing part­ner­ships with D3 Tech­nolo­gies and Real-Time Inno­va­tions (RTI).

D3 Tech­nolo­gies has become an Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem part­ner, while RTI’s soft­ware con­nec­tiv­i­ty frame­work will be inte­grat­ed into Varon Vehi­cles’ Infra­struc­ture Net­works, which are the company’s ver­ti­ports in regions, sub­urbs and cities with vir­tu­al lanes over the low alti­tude skies con­nect­ing them.

Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehi­cles, said: “We are proud to work with RTI as we plan for imple­men­ta­tion of our oper­a­tions and progress with the inte­gra­tion of the com­po­nents required in our Infra­struc­ture Net­works. RTI Con­next deliv­ers the com­mu­ni­ca­tion and data fusion capa­bil­i­ties nec­es­sary to enable high-end reli­a­bil­i­ty and safe­ty of all the sys­tems we need to bring togeth­er.

“We are also delight­ed to be col­lab­o­rat­ing with D3 Tech­nolo­gies as they bring seri­ous capa­bil­i­ties to an inte­grat­ed solu­tion pro­vid­ing high­est avi­a­tion safe­ty con­sid­er­ing weath­er man­age­ment, off-nom­i­nal sit­u­a­tion man­age­ment, air­space archi­tec­ture design and real time air­craft mon­i­tor­ing capa­bil­i­ties, which are cru­cial for our TMS require­ments.”

RTI’s Con­next® DDS enables the future of urban air mobil­i­ty by sup­ply­ing the robust soft­ware con­nec­tiv­i­ty frame­work for all vehi­cle sen­sors and sys­tems to com­mu­ni­cate vehi­cle intel­li­gence in mil­lisec­onds.

Con­next under­pins vehi­cle-to-vehi­cle (V2V) and vehi­cle-to-infra­struc­ture (V2I) com­mu­ni­ca­tions with secu­ri­ty and resilience, while enabling the vehi­cle man­age­ment infra­struc­ture to scale accord­ing to demand, all while opti­miz­ing con­trol and effi­cien­cy.

Addi­tion­al­ly, Con­next offers com­mer­cial RTCA DO-178C and EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A cer­ti­fi­ca­tion evi­dence, accel­er­at­ing the path to UAM safe­ty cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and air­wor­thi­ness.

Chip Down­ing, Senior Mar­ket Devel­op­ment Direc­tor, A&D at RTI, added: “Urban air mobil­i­ty plat­forms and ground infra­struc­ture sys­tems have unique require­ments and face com­plex chal­lenges as they move towards wide-spread, com­mer­cial deploy­ment.

“Futur­is­tic trans­port sys­tems like these pro­vide the indus­try with safe, con­ve­nient options. We are pleased to work with Varon Vehi­cles as they dri­ve UAM inno­va­tion and build a pow­er­ful infra­struc­ture sys­tem for UAM in Latin Amer­i­ca.”

D3 Tech­nolo­gies pro­vides air traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems for the advanced air mobil­i­ty sec­tor, by devel­op­ing a hard­ware and soft­ware solu­tions that assures the high­est safe­ty stan­dards. This safe and scal­able sys­tem organ­is­es air traf­fic over met­ro­pol­i­tan areas and in con­nect­ing cor­ri­dors. The com­pa­ny is also a mem­ber of the Cana­di­an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Con­sor­tium (CAAM).

Achim Kostron, Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer of D3 Tech­nolo­gies, added: “We are con­vinced that a future UAM ecosys­tem must be inter­op­er­a­ble and designed on a high­est assur­ance lev­el with a guid­ing cen­tral instance. We are delight­ed to col­lab­o­rate with Varon Vehi­cles and their approach of infra­struc­ture net­works devel­op­ing con­crete use-cas­es and dri­ving them to imple­men­ta­tion.”