SkyScape Partners with Unisphere “to Understand Weather Impact on Vertiport Development and Operations”

Asa Que­sen­ber­ry, Founder and Pres­i­dent of Japan-based Sky­Scape Ver­ti­ports, post­ed news this week on Linkedin of a new col­lab­o­ra­tion with Uni­sphere, a weath­er intel­li­gence and data ana­lyt­ics solu­tions com­pa­ny.

Var­i­ous arti­cles post­ed on evtolinsights.com over the last year, show how weath­er con­di­tions can have a major neg­a­tive effect on ver­ti­ports. So this part­ner­ship makes good sense.

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The two com­pa­nies will sign a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) “to bet­ter under­stand how weath­er con­di­tions such as wind, tem­per­a­ture, icing and more, may impact spe­cif­ic loca­tions in regards to ver­ti­port devel­op­ment and oper­a­tions,” explains the release. “The insight of which will then be devel­oped into a stan­dard­ised method­ol­o­gy for ver­ti­port site assess­ment in the Japan and Asia Pacif­ic mar­kets.”

Que­sen­ber­ry remarked, “For this indus­try to reach its true poten­tial, we need to oper­ate all the year around, regard­less of the weath­er. There­fore, we must under­stand how it may impact oper­a­tions at our facil­i­ties, so we can be pre­pared.”

He con­tin­ued, “Japan is a good exam­ple as the coun­try runs north to south and cov­ers six dif­fer­ent cli­mate zones, there­fore, expe­ri­enc­ing a lot of dif­fer­ent weath­er. Work­ing with the Uni­sphere team will help us make sure the weath­er fac­tor is planned from Day 1 at all Sky­scape ver­ti­port loca­tions.”

Dr. Christoph Schlet­tig, co-Founder and CEO of Uni­sphere, added, “By com­bin­ing our exper­tise, we can sim­pli­fy the site eval­u­a­tion, design and its devel­op­ment to ensure crit­i­cal ground infra­struc­ture can quick­ly be scaled and is in place when eVTOLs begin oper­a­tions.”

The plan is “to pio­neer a unique approach to ver­ti­port devel­op­ment using facil­i­ty build­ing blocks via a set of ready-made units,” con­tin­ues the release. “This infra­struc­ture in a box approach empow­ers ver­ti­port site devel­op­ers by allow­ing a quick design and devel­op­ment of avi­a­tion facil­i­ties with­in the ele­ments required for each unique-case.”

Asa Que­sen­ber­ry

The aim is to devel­op sites that can sup­port a high num­ber of co-locat­ed ser­vices not lim­it­ed to only eVTOL oper­a­tions, but also first reponse, med­ical deliv­er­ies, secu­ri­ty and more in the name of empow­er­ing com­mu­ni­ties through Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

Back­ground

Sky­scape is a start­up based in Osa­ka, Japan, and is the only Ver­ti­port Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny (VDMC) in the coun­try. It has won var­i­ous acco­lades includ­ing two last year from the Blue Sky Avi­a­tion Awards group (‘Avi­a­tion Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty’ and ‘Avi­a­tion Acces­si­bilit) recog­nis­ing the company’s indus­try in Japan and APAC. 

Uni­sphere was found­ed in 2017, is locat­ed in Kon­stanz, Ger­many, and is a spe­cial­ist in smart soft­ware solu­tions to auto­mate the flight oper­a­tions of drones and air taxis. The plat­form is already used by lead­ing BVLOS drone oper­a­tors and sup­ports both pilot­ed and ful­ly auto­mat­ed flight oper­a­tions based on its unique sim­u­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy.

The com­pa­ny won the Ger­man Mobil­i­ty Award 2021 in the Best Prac­tice cat­e­go­ry, beat­ing 300 sub­mis­sions. Uni­sphere has over 10 employ­ees.

For more infor­ma­tion

http://www.skyscape.site

https://www.unisphere.de/

(Top image: Sky­scape)

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