PODCAST: Mohamed Ben Tahar of Trimble on Building the Invisible Infrastructure for AAM

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is now live! This week, we were delight­ed to be joined by Mohamed Ben Tahar, Busi­ness Area Direc­tor for Auto­mo­tive and IoT at Trim­ble, to explore the tech­nol­o­gy and infra­struc­ture need­ed to make Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty com­mer­cial­ly viable.

Mohamed explains why pre­cise and reli­able posi­tion­ing will be crit­i­cal as the indus­try moves from demon­stra­tion flights towards scaled autonomous oper­a­tions. He dis­cuss­es Trimble’s work in GNSS, sen­sor fusion and space-deliv­ered infra­struc­ture, as well as the chal­lenges posed by ver­ti­cal posi­tion­ing, con­nec­tiv­i­ty and 5G cov­er­age.

The con­ver­sa­tion also explores lessons from auto­mo­tive, con­struc­tion and min­ing, the impor­tance of data inter­op­er­abil­i­ty, dig­i­tal twins and real-time map­ping, and how AI could trans­form air traf­fic man­age­ment. Mohamed high­lights emerg­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in North Amer­i­ca and Cana­da, before look­ing ahead to rou­tine autonomous car­go and med­ical flights.

He con­cludes by shar­ing his vision for AAM to con­nect rur­al com­mu­ni­ties and satel­lite hos­pi­tals through zero-emis­sion, three-dimen­sion­al flight net­works.