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Skyroads completes first demo of its air traffic management system prototype and works towards Series A Financing Round

Urban air mobil­i­ty start­up Sky­roads — for­mer­ly D3 Tech­nolo­gies AG — has com­plet­ed the first suc­cess­ful flight demon­stra­tion of its Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem pro­to­type.

The com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing its Sky­roads Sys­tem, which enables advanced air mobil­i­ty to scale safe­ly and effi­cient­ly. It auto­mat­i­cal­ly man­ages pas­sen­ger and car­go drones in urban air­space and as an inte­grat­ed plat­form it also opens up new oppor­tu­ni­ties for busi­ness and ser­vice providers.

Test­ing of the pro­to­type was con­duct­ed in Tannheim, Ger­many, which show­cased the on-board flight guard­ing sys­tem or Blue­box, which com­mu­ni­cates with the drone’s flight con­trol com­put­er and the ground sys­tem via a cel­lu­lar net­work.

The ground sys­tem then plans the flight routes with the help of a map util­i­ty, which acts as a user inter­face for enter­ing flight route data. The test case also demon­strat­ed how the sys­tem auto­mat­i­cal­ly assigns alter­na­tive land­ing pads in the case of ran­dom­ly sim­u­lat­ed emer­gen­cies.

The pro­to­type uses a uni­fied cloud data­base, the Sky­roads Data Hub, which is accessed by both the Ground- and Air­borne-Seg­ments of the Sys­tem and assures con­sis­tent data across all sys­tem com­po­nents.

Sky­roads CEO, Corvin Huber, said: “Since our found­ing in 2019, we have been work­ing on build­ing the roads of the sky as D3 Tech­nolo­gies. Our team of top engi­neers and busi­ness devel­op­ers, realised prod­uct devel­op­ment mile­stones well ahead of sched­ule and has built valu­able strate­gic part­ner­ships.

“With the new name of Sky­roads, our upcom­ing growth can utilise a brand iden­ti­ty that reflects the fun­da­men­tal need for and aspi­ra­tion of our tech­nol­o­gy for urban mobil­i­ty.”

Sky­roads has already built strate­gic part­ner­ships with oth­er com­pa­nies in the urban air mobil­i­ty space, includ­ing Man­ta Air­craft, Fly­now Avi­a­tion, Walle Mobilty, CAPS, Deep Blue Avi­a­tion, Amazil­ia Aero­space, Lehrstuhl für Flugsysys­tem­dy­namik of the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich (TUM) and Varon Vehi­cles.

As a con­cep­tu­al leader for Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment, Sky­roads also became a mem­ber of the Cana­di­an Advanced Air Mobilty Con­sor­tium (CAAM).

Under its new name, Sky­roads is now head­ing for Series A financ­ing round, which will see the Sky­roads Sys­tem installed in a unique Flight Test Area and used by a num­ber of Air Vehi­cle Devel­op­ers. 

Huber was a recent guest on the eVTOL Insights Pod­cast and you can also hear more about Sky­roads’ vision for the mar­ket by click­ing here.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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