Month: June 2021

SAN RAMON, Calif. – June 17, 2021 – GE Digital has announced the signing of a memo of understanding  to collaborate with Varon Vehicles Corporation on the development of a solution for airspace efficiency, safety, and predictive maintenance. This partnership builds on GE Digital’s expertise in analytics software to produce a solution to facilitate better routing operations in Latin America, starting in Colombia.

Varon Vehicles is developing Urban Air Mobility, an innovative transportation system with new enabling technologies using currently untapped airspaces in a confined and safe way. It consists of a series of Vertiports connected to each other via well-defined low altitude virtual lanes through which the company’s air vehicles will fly, without adding a burden on Air Traffic Control or mixing with traditional aviation. 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.

“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,” said Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehicles Corporation.

The collaborative solution will leverage Varon Vehicles’ new Urban Air Mobility system to create a connected ecosystem that addresses operational efficiencies while ensuring safe operations of this new form of urban and sub-urban aviation.

Urban Air Mobility requires a new set of measurements and flight profiles as these new aircraft increase their non-conventional operations in cities. Ensuring the safety for passengers, citizens and traditional aviation will be key for the adequate deployment and operation of this new ecosystem. Sustainability and life cycle tracking for batteries and components will be paramount. Connecting to users and passengers in a proactive way, will ensure and allow the system to be used in a safe and easy way, understanding what to expect on the route and flight.

“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,” Varon continued. “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 is a great example of moving the industry forward as we all return to flight,” said Andrew Coleman, General Manager of GE Digital’s Aviation Software business. “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.

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About GE Digital
GE Digital transforms how our customers solve their toughest challenges by putting industrial data to work. Our mission is to bring simplicity, speed, and scale to digital transformation activities, with industrial software that delivers breakthrough business outcomes. GE Digital’s product portfolio – including grid optimization and analytics, asset and operations performance management, and manufacturing operations and automation – helps industrial companies in the utility, power generation, oil & gas, aviation, and manufacturing sectors change the way industry works. For more information, visit www.ge.com/digital.

 

About Varon Vehicles

Varon Vehicles is a disruptive mobility infrastructure company. It is implementing Urban Air Mobility with the new generation of electric aviation (eVTOLs) to provide radically new urban transportation services. www.varonvehicles.com.

 

Media contacts:

Rachael Van Reen

GE Digital

rachael.vanreen@ge.com

 

Felipe Varon

Varon Vehicles Corporation

varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com

+57-313-658-0294

Syracuse, NY, June 1st 2021, Varon Vehicles and ResilienX have signed an MoU and will be jointly collaborating on the integration of ResilienX’s off-nominal situation management capabilities. ResilienX is the developer of FRAIHMWORK^®, an in-time system-wide safety assurance platform and the collaboration is focused on analyzing its potential integration into Varon Vehicle’s Traffic Management Systems (TMS). Varon Vehicles is developing “Infrastructure Networks” which are a number of company’s vertiports in a city and suburb with virtual lanes over the low altitude city skies connecting them, and fleets of their electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) next generation aircraft for urban use, servicing between them. These are a new form of mobility infrastructure that will not require per-mile construction, with which the company will be providing diverse transportation services and where safety is a number one priority.

“Just like with any other aviation system, we have to expect off-nominal situations to present themselves during operation”, says Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder. “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.”

“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.”

Varon Vehicles Corporation is a disruptive mobility infrastructure company. It is implementing Urban Air Mobility with the new generation of electric aviation (eVTOLs) to provide radically new urban transportation services. www.varonvehicles.com. Contact Felipe Varon, varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com.

ResilienX is a software company developing safety assurance solutions for autonomous ecosystems. Founded in 2018 in Syracuse, NY, they are focused on ensuring the safe integration of UAS into existing airspace systems and providing safety solutions to transform mobility around the world. www.resilienx.com. Contact Ryan Pleskach, ryan.pleskach@resilienx.com.