DUBAI AIRSHOW 2023: ANRA Technologies Launches VMS Vertiport Management System for Urban Air Mobility

ANRA Tech­nolo­gies has announced its Ver­ti­port Man­age­ment Sys­tem (VMS) at the Dubai Air Show, which the com­pa­ny says marks a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in man­ag­ing VTOL Urban Air Mobil­i­ty air­craft oper­a­tions at ver­ti­port facil­i­ties.

As the UAM land­scape evolves, ANRA has devel­oped VMS, which is a ver­sa­tile, web-based soft­ware plat­form designed to adapt to var­i­ous air­craft, ver­ti­ports, and loca­tions.

With VTOL air­craft gain­ing auton­o­my, the demand for ser­vices to ensure safe and effi­cient ver­ti­port oper­a­tions is rapid­ly increas­ing. VMS plays a piv­otal role by intel­li­gent­ly exchang­ing real-time data with all the nec­es­sary ser­vices to facil­i­tate the safe arrival and depar­ture of UAM air­craft.

Amit Gan­joo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Tech­nolo­gies, said: “While many ver­ti­port providers are busy build­ing the phys­i­cal infra­struc­ture and con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing the pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence, ANRA has devel­oped the dig­i­tal lay­er. VMS facil­i­tates intel­li­gent oper­a­tional and safe­ty deci­sions by seam­less­ly con­nect­ing with var­i­ous sys­tems at the ver­ti­port, air­craft, and the broad­er AAM ecosys­tem.”

The VMS microser­vice archi­tec­ture allows it to sup­port mul­ti­ple ver­ti­port designs, is air­craft agnos­tic, and inte­grates with cur­rent com­mer­cial air traf­fic man­age­ment (ATM) sys­tems. Using ANRA’s air­space man­age­ment ser­vices, UAM oper­a­tors can now effi­cient­ly plan and exe­cute their flight oper­a­tions from pad to pad, sup­port­ed by a com­pre­hen­sive suite of ser­vices, includ­ing:

• Real-time ver­ti­port resource sta­tus and reser­va­tion requests.
• Resource sched­ule for ver­ti­port resource avail­abil­i­ty.
• Reser­va­tion and clear­ance requests for inbound and out­bound flights.
• Sys­tem checks to ver­i­fy sta­tus of out­bound flights.
• Live teleme­try for mon­i­tor­ing air­craft data of inbound and out­bound flights.
• Micro weath­er ser­vices.
• Live sur­veil­lance data for near­by air­craft.
• Inte­gra­tion with broad­er UAM traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems.

To unlock the full poten­tial of the UAM mar­ket, ele­vat­ed lev­els of air­craft auton­o­my are essen­tial, neces­si­tat­ing con­cur­rent advance­ments in automa­tion sup­port sys­tems.

In NASA’s Ver­ti­port Automa­tion, Soft­ware Archi­tec­ture and Require­ments report, it empha­sised ver­ti­ports must enhance col­lab­o­ra­tive deci­sion-mak­ing, sched­ul­ing, air­space man­age­ment, demand capac­i­ty bal­anc­ing, and ser­vice syn­chro­niza­tion to pre­vent con­ges­tion and guar­an­tee safe­ty and com­pli­ance across the UAM net­work.

ANRA will be exhibit­ing at the Dubai Air­show, where atten­dees inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about VMS and view­ing a demon­stra­tion can vis­it its booth, num­ber 75, in the AAM Pavil­ion.