GE Digital joins Varon Vehicles’ ecosystem to focus on solution for safe aviation operations in Latin America

Varon Vehi­cles has teamed up with GE Dig­i­tal to devel­op a solu­tion for air­space effi­cien­cy, safe­ty and pre­dic­tive main­te­nance. This part­ner­ship builds on GE Dig­i­tal’s exper­tise in ana­lyt­ics soft­ware to facil­i­tate bet­ter rout­ing oper­a­tions in Latin Amer­i­ca, start­ing in Colom­bia.

GE Dig­i­tal’s Avi­a­tion Soft­ware includes fuel insight, to help increase fuel effi­cien­cy, low­er costs and reduce car­bon emis­sions, a well­ness trace to help trav­ellers move with con­fi­dence and a safe­ty insight to increase flight safe­ty and secu­ri­ty.

It will help Varon Vehi­cles devel­op its own Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem, which will con­sist of a series of ver­ti­ports con­nect­ed via well-defined low alti­tude vir­tu­al lanes which the com­pa­ny’s air vehi­cles will fly. This is all with­out adding a bur­den on Air Traf­fic Con­trol or mix­ing with tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion.

GE Dig­i­tal joins a host of oth­er com­pa­nies in its ecosys­tem, which includes eVTOL air­craft OEM Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty, Five Alpha, TruWeath­er Solu­tions, Pal­adin AI, PS&S, Flight Crowd and Airio.

Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehi­cles Cor­po­ra­tion, said: “With plans for intro­duc­tion of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions in major cities, dig­i­tal tools and sys­tems will be need­ed to con­nect and mon­i­tor elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing air­craft (eVTOLs) in con­fined and con­trolled air­spaces.

“Our col­lab­o­ra­tion with a com­pa­ny like GE Dig­i­tal is of utmost impor­tance as we devel­op our new con­cept for avi­a­tion, in many aspects from the ground up. Being able to lever­age GE’s uncon­test­ed expe­ri­ence in avi­a­tion is of tremen­dous val­ue, and we will work togeth­er to bring effi­cien­cy to our oper­a­tions to make them robust, reli­able and safe.”

Varon Vehi­cles’ plan is to place their Ver­ti­ports both inside and out­side exist­ing urban struc­tures, to alle­vi­ate the pres­sure for city growth.

They will pro­vide trans­porta­tion ser­vices to the logis­tics, tourism and med­ical mar­kets and cus­tomers like gov­ern­ments and ride hail­ing com­pa­nies for air taxi ser­vices, all with­out the need for phys­i­cal con­struc­tion. This project will ini­tial­ly tar­get the car­go trans­porta­tion and tourism mar­kets.

Andrew Cole­man, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of GE Digital’s Avi­a­tion Soft­ware busi­ness, added: “Varon Vehi­cles is a great exam­ple of mov­ing the indus­try for­ward as we all return to flight. Sus­tain­abil­i­ty is in their DNA with their focus on elec­tric vehi­cles and we look for­ward to work­ing with them on this ambi­tious project.”

More infor­ma­tion on GE Dig­i­tal Avi­a­tion Soft­ware can be found here.