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Technologies for future mobility solutions - AAM
As the population grows, so do megacities, where transportation is becoming a challenge. At the same time, rural communities and remote areas suffer as they do not have fast access to the centers of economic activity. Advanced Air Mobility promises to solve some of these challenges by alleviating urban congestion with efficient and rapid transportation alternatives for people and cargo.
In our latest CEO Update, TTTech CEO and co-founder Georg Kopetz sat down with Kurt Doppelbauer, Vice President Sales & Business Development for TTTech’s aerospace business. Kurt worked for IBM and founded a software company before joining TTTech and took an active part in shaping the aerospace business and building up the company’s U.S. subsidiary.
Kurt, how do you see the status of the industry, and which use cases do you believe are the most interesting?
Kurt: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is divided into four sectors: Starting with the uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones that are the number one and have been there for many years. Then, urban air mobility (UAM), which is focusing on electric vertical take-off and landing systems, the regional air mobility market that is really up to 19 passengers, up to 300 kilometers, and the regional air transport market. The most immediate revenue-generating is really the UAV, i.e. the drone market. There are a lot of applications already, up to 800,000 paid services last year, in 2023. The applications are for medicine, transportation, for blood transportation, and for groceries as well. There are a lot of service industry applications in terms of firefighting and observation areas for pipelines, for example. However, the biggest growth area is definitely for cargo drones.
Then the urban air mobility market – a market that already has the first certifications in China. And there, the starting point will be taxis within big cities, between airports, for example, or rural areas. The regional air mobility market is also for connecting different cities, and also islands, as well. There are a lot of applications coming up in this industry. And a big topic is certainly certification, and how we get to it. And with first certifications, in China, this is already happening. The bigger take-up is really not only certification of the aircraft, but for the whole ecosystem – i.e. from vertiports to standardized charging systems etc.
#IMPACT25 panel: Autonomy beyond automotive – areas of synergy
The topic of safe and secure automation and autonomy, as well as the collaboration within and between ecosystems are a good approach to gaining a broader perspective and discovering new insights. At The Autonomous Main Event in September, TTTech’s CEO Georg Kopetz moderated an exciting panel with a lineup of experts from the aviation, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), and the agricultural sector.
The panelists looked at autonomy from a cross-industry perspective and highlighted the learnings and technologies from individual industries that can be applied to new applications, such as AAM or smart farming.
Honeywell’s next-generation flight deck uses solutions from TTTech as avionics backbone
Digitalization is now also playing a part in the requirements of modern aviation. Aircraft today are more connected and more data-driven than ever before. Thus, modern flight decks need to provide pilots with real-time information in an easily accessible and actionable format. One example is Honeywell AnthemTM, a next-generation, modular, and highly intuitive integrated flight deck that is scalable for a broad range of aircraft types and sizes, from passenger planes and business aircraft to defense, general aviation, and advanced air-mobility (AAM) vehicles.
Honeywell has been a long-time customer of TTTech and uses certifiable Deterministic Ethernet-based network solutions from TTTech Aerospace as the avionics backbone of Honeywell Anthem, the ‘nervous system’ connecting all functions on the flight deck.
Advanced Air Mobility solutions from TTTech
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) solutions have very specific needs. Size, weight, and cost of components are among the challenges, but also the need for systems that can be certified to the highest aviation safety standards. TTTech provides solutions that meet these needs and can be integrated into air taxis or delivery drones.
#IMPACT25 Panel: Safety in human space flight, the astronaut’s perspective
One highlight of our #IMPACT25 campaign is ‘joint impact’, where we engage with our customers and partners around the globe to discuss their business, the applications of the future, and the solutions TTTech provides in collaboration with them. One of these exciting and inspiring interviews can be found below:
NASA's Lunar Gateway will host the next generation of space explorers, and we had the great pleasure of talking to Stanley G. Love, PhD, a senior advisor on the HMI (Human-Machine Interface) between the Lunar Gateway and visiting astronauts. Find out about astronaut training, preparation for space travel, and spacewalks, why the Lunar Gateway is important for the future of space exploration, and how NASA and industry work together in building the space economy of the future: Watch now!
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