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Skyway, TruWeather Collaborate “to Trial4D Kinetic Atmospheric Motion Image Intelligent System (KAMIIS) for AAM”

Sky­way and TruWeath­er Solu­tions recent­ly announced their next phase of col­lab­o­ra­tion aimed at lead­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) oper­a­tions through the inte­gra­tion of Sky­way’s advanced nav­i­ga­tion oper­a­tions tech­nol­o­gy and TruWeath­er’s inno­v­a­tive W.I.S.E. (Weath­er Intel­li­gence Sens­ing Ecosys­tem) infra­struc­ture, reports a press release. 

This part­ner­ship “rede­fines how weath­er data and air­space nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems sup­port AAM test­ing and oper­a­tions, pro­vid­ing pre­ci­sion and reli­a­bil­i­ty,” says the release.

It explains, “TruWeather’s W.I.S.E. sys­tem deliv­ers real-time data to their V360 ana­lyt­ics plat­form, pro­ject­ing a detailed view of wind and weath­er dynam­ics, while Sky­way’s advanced air­space man­age­ment inter­face ensures opti­mised risk assess­ments for eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions. Togeth­er, these tech­nolo­gies enable oper­a­tors to opti­mise oper­a­tions by pro­vid­ing effi­cien­cy and safe­ty while increas­ing rev­enue gen­er­a­tion.”

Don Berchoff, CEO of TruWeath­er CEO, remarked, “We have test­beds in key loca­tions with diverse weath­er con­di­tions-includ­ing wind shear, tur­bu­lence, low cloud ceil­ings and vis­i­bil­i­ty as well as icing, which allow us to address chal­lenges unique to lighter, elec­tric-pow­ered AAM vehi­cles. By com­bin­ing TruWeath­er’s advanced weath­er intel­li­gence with Sky­way’s oper­a­tional tech­nol­o­gy, we set the stage for reli­able, data-dri­ven AAM solu­tions.”

Don Berchoff (Cred­it: TruWeath­er Solu­tions)

The release con­tin­ues, “A key com­po­nent of this ini­tia­tive is TruWeath­er’s involve­ment in NASA’s ‘Pathfind­ing for Air­space with Autonomous Vehi­cles (PAAV)’ pro­gram. This estab­lish­es a ded­i­cat­ed cor­ri­dor between Hol­lis­ter Air­port and NASA Ames in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia.” 

It goes on, “TruWeather’s hyper­local weath­er analy­ses and pre­dic­tive capa­bil­i­ties will com­bine with Sky­way’s real-time air­space 3D imag­ing tech­nol­o­gy to inno­vate and progress mete­o­ro­log­i­cal dig­i­tal twin sys­tems. This KAMIIS tech­nol­o­gy will pro­vide a lev­el of pre­ci­sion ren­dered in near real-time that has nev­er been suc­cess­ful­ly sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly demon­strat­ed nor com­mer­cialised.”

Hol­lis­ter Air­port, an impor­tant site for eVTOL test­ing, is soon to ben­e­fit from TruWeath­er’s deploy­ment of advanced weath­er sen­sors. This includes wind-scan­ning LiDARs, ver­ti­cal LiDARs and cloud and vis­i­bil­i­ty sen­sors, all designed to gath­er hyper­local wind and weath­er data. Sky­way’s inter­face will inte­grate this data into its air­space image sys­tem, allow­ing eVTOL oper­a­tors to assess how small-scale wind con­di­tions impact eVTOL air­craft per­for­mance, ensur­ing safer and more effi­cient oper­a­tions under real-world con­di­tions.

TruWeath­er Analy­sis Drone (Cred­it: TruWeath­er Solu­tions)

There­fore, the two par­ties cre­ate a ‘liv­ing lab’ pow­ered by the full capa­bil­i­ties of the W.I.S.E. ecosys­tem and Sky­way’s nav­i­ga­tion oper­a­tions plat­form. They aim to advance AAM oper­a­tions by inte­grat­ing real-time weath­er and nav­i­ga­tion tech­nolo­gies for smarter rout­ing, pre­cise nav­i­ga­tion and improved pay­load man­age­ment.

Clif­ford Cruz, Sky­way CEO, con­clud­ed, “Weath­er intel­li­gence will deliv­er a safer, more effi­cient AAM ecosys­tem. This is sci­ence you only see in movies.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.goskyway.com

https://truweathersolutions.com/

(Top image: Skyway/TruWeather)

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