Airio to automate route generation in Varon Vehicles’ urban air mobility network in Latin America

Varon Vehi­cles will inte­grate Airi­o’s Intel­li­gent Flight­path Nav­i­ga­tion sys­tem into its planned infra­struc­ture net­works for Latin Amer­i­ca, as part of a new part­ner­ship between the two com­pa­nies.

Its first net­work is planned in Colom­bia, which will com­prise of ver­ti­ports with vir­tu­al lanes — with­out the need for phys­i­cal mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture. Varon Vehi­cles has had a busy start to the year already and is start­ing to build up a strong net­work of com­pa­nies for its ecosys­tem.

As well as Airio, it has sim­i­lar agree­ments with Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty, TruWeath­er Solu­tions, Pal­adin AI and PS&S.

Com­ment­ing on the agree­ment with Airio, Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehi­cles, said: “We’re work­ing to inte­grate the dif­fer­ent com­po­nents required in our Infra­struc­ture Net­works and Airio’s capa­bil­i­ty to gen­er­ate smart, auto­mat­ed flight paths is cru­cial for safe­ty and scal­a­bil­i­ty.

“We need to make our sys­tems scal­able and utter­ly safe. There’s only so much air­space we can occu­py, which means we have to rely on high­ly auto­mat­ed sys­tems for our oper­a­tion, espe­cial­ly on smart ways to gen­er­ate opti­mum routes for each flight, on the go. These capa­bil­i­ties by far exceed those of humans in deter­min­ing the safest and most effi­cient routes, with all the dynam­ic vari­ables involved.”

Airio’s intel­li­gent Flight­path Nav­i­ga­tion Sys­tem uses pro­pri­etary math­e­mat­i­cal algo­rithms to search, eval­u­ate and select unique flight paths for each vehi­cle oper­at­ing in a shared air­space. The sys­tem pro­vides crit­i­cal infor­ma­tion to both the on-board oper­a­tor, as well as the ground-based traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems.

The tech­nol­o­gy will active­ly gen­er­ate routes with­in assigned seg­re­gat­ed air­spaces, opti­mized for mul­ti­ple air­craft, con­sid­er­ing fac­tors like active eVTOL traf­fic, bat­tery dura­tion, wind, rain­fall, and even wildlife. Airio’s smart sys­tems will bring all of this infor­ma­tion in real-time into each auto­mat­ed flight­path.

Michael Liquori, CEO of Airio, added: “Airio is excit­ed to become a part of the Varon Vehi­cles ecosys­tem of com­pa­nies that are mak­ing Urban Air Mobil­i­ty pos­si­ble. Varon Vehi­cles has real­ly tak­en a lead­er­ship role in this emerg­ing indus­try, and their vision for safe, smart and mod­ern urban trans­porta­tion is tru­ly rev­o­lu­tion­ary.

“Urban Air Mobil­i­ty will not only improve the qual­i­ty of life in cities, but will pos­i­tive­ly con­tribute to the way cities grow and pros­per.”