Varon Vehicles brings ResilienX into its urban air mobility ecosystem for Latin America

ResilienX has become the lat­est com­pa­ny to join Varon Vehi­cles’ urban air mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem in Latin Amer­i­ca, and will inte­grate its off-nom­i­nal sit­u­a­tion man­age­ment capa­bil­i­ties into planned ‘Infra­struc­ture Net­works’ across the region.

These net­works form a num­ber of ver­ti­ports in a city and sub­urb, with vir­tu­al lanes over the low alti­tude city skies con­nect­ing them and fleets of eVTOL air­craft for ser­vic­ing between them. Varon Vehi­cles says they are a new form of mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture that will not require per-mile con­struc­tion, and plans to intro­duce them into Colom­bia first.

ResilienX joins a grow­ing list of oth­er com­pa­nies which are lend­ing their indus­try exper­tise to the ecosys­tem in Latin Amer­i­ca. Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty was the first to sign a part­ner­ship in Jan­u­ary 2021, with PS&S, TruWeath­er Solu­tions, Airio, Five-Alpha and Flight Crowd join­ing more recent­ly.

Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehi­cles, said: “Just like with any oth­er avi­a­tion sys­tem, we have to expect off-nom­i­nal sit­u­a­tions to present them­selves dur­ing oper­a­tion. The chal­lenge is to cor­rect­ly antic­i­pate these sit­u­a­tions and have the prop­er planned respons­es in place to nego­ti­ate and mit­i­gate them safe­ly.

“ResilienX is build­ing a robust and reli­able capa­bil­i­ty for advanced air mobil­i­ty that can help us reach the lev­el of con­fi­dence we need to pro­vide seam­less trans­porta­tion ser­vices to our cus­tomers.”

Based in Syra­cuse, New York, ResilienX is the devel­op­er of FRAIHMWORK^®, an in-time sys­tem-wide safe­ty assur­ance plat­form and the col­lab­o­ra­tion is focused on analysing its poten­tial inte­gra­tion into Varon Vehicle’s Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tems (TMS). The com­pa­ny cre­ates safe­ty assur­ance solu­tions for autonomous ecosys­tems and is focused on ensur­ing the safe inte­gra­tion of UAS into exist­ing air­space sys­tems.

Andrew Carter, ResilienX’s Co-Founder, Pres­i­dent and CTO, also took part in a series of think tanks host­ed by Varon Vehi­cles between August and Octo­ber 2020.

“We are thrilled for this part­ner­ship” said Ryan Pleskach, CEO of ResilienX. “Varon Vehi­cles is a glob­al vision­ary and this push for advanced aer­i­al mobil­i­ty can deliv­er dis­rup­tive change in the mobil­i­ty indus­try. We are excit­ed to bring our expe­ri­ence and capa­bil­i­ties in devel­op­ing safe­ty crit­i­cal sys­tem of sys­tems to bear on the Varon Vehi­cles vision.

“Our work with NASA and the FAA on var­i­ous UTM/UAM pro­grams, to mon­i­tor, assess and mit­i­gate off-nom­i­nal sit­u­a­tions, has giv­en us a deep under­stand­ing of the chal­lenges that these ecosys­tems face as oper­a­tional com­plex­i­ty increas­es and we are look­ing for­ward to play­ing a role in tack­ling those chal­lenges.”