Enabling Advanced Air Mobility at Scale

Coordinating Automated Traffic

Introducing the AeroNet, a flying wireless mesh network that coordinates automated vehicles with all other traffic, ensuring the public’s safety and security.

Given the rapid growth of remotely operated and automated vehicles below the National Airspace System, an Unmanned Traffic Management System (UTM) is needed to ensure the safe, secure, and efficient integration and coordination of both crewed and uncrewed aircraft in low-altitude airspace.

We achieve this by migrating technology that has been thoroughly developed for automated and connected ground vehicles, and bringing air vehicles into a well-coordinated combination.

Communication-based Infrastructure for Air + Ground Transportation

All transportation works best when there is a universally defined infrastructure that is ubiquitously and equitably available.

AeroNet is a communication-based digital infrastructure with the tools to build the mathematical models of cities, airports and suburbs. These tools will provide infrastructure owners and operators the ability to:

License and authenticate traffic
Broadcast rules and standards
Enable collision avoidance and safety messasing
Mix automateds and piloted traffic

AeroNet Enables Intelligent...

CITIES/REGIONS

As cities and suburbs grapple with traffic and congestion, and the new emergence of automated ground and aerial vehicles, Aeronet provides the tools and infrastructure needed to manage crewed and uncrewed traffic.

AIRPORTS

Increase productivity, capacity, safety and system integrity of our Nation’s 5,000 public and private use airports in the United States by employing the Aeronet to define arrival and departure procedures, and to sequence and separate crewed and uncrewed traffic.

VERTIPORTS

From sub-55 lb. aerial vehicles to large electric VTOLs and helicopters, Aeronet will be employed to define arrival and departure procedures and to sequence and separate crewed and uncrewed traffic.

What Can AeroNet Do For...

Local, State, and Federal Agencies

Commercial and Non-Profit Entities

Authenticate Traffic

License, Identify, & Authenticate Traffic

Provides Government, Business and Academia with anonymous real time traffic information
Ensures registered operators are in compliance with Federal, Sate and Local Standards for operational safety
Ensure Low-Altitude aircraft and automated ground vehicles operate within approved areas

Broadcast Routes & Rules

Rules, Routes, Arrival and Departure Procedures

Digitize precision Routes, Rules and Mathematical Travelway Models
Coordinate automated and piloted traffic
Reroute traffic dynamically in emergencies
Passive Radar Systems Detect Uncooperative Traffic

Active Collision Avoidance

V2V Communication

Increased situational awareness
Collision Avoidance
Teaming, platooning and swarm
Restricted airspace and Safety Messaging
Ad hoc cooperative assistance
Drone A forwards safety message to drone B to course correct..

Command and Control

Remote Operation

The Network may facilitate authenticated and encrypted remote command and control using ground and/or cellular devices. Commercial, public safety, and emergency medical services operators can make use of the AeroNet for their purposes while their vehicles operate in the commingled environment, anonymously but authenticated.

Public Safety Messaging

Livestream Video / Multi-Hop Safety Messaging

Situation awareness is key to emergency response and public safety. From roadway accidents and multi-alarm fires, Public Safety Agencies can collaborate, transmit and share multi-hop live video and safety messages to improve agility and speed to response.

Vehicle-2-Anything Comm.

Infrastructure-Dictated Communication

Towers, tall buildings, bridges and airports deploy AeroNet to:

Broadcast restricted airspace
Authenticate authorized traffic
Communicate Safety Messages to ground based vehicles (i.e. unplanned landings on ground based rights of way).

Deployments

Detroit City Airport

The first Connected Intelligent Airport

In partnership with the city of Detroit, we have deployed our flying wireless mesh network using C-V2X technology to begin exploring the broad potential of connected intelligent transportation systems architectures. Below are a sample of the use- cases we are testing.

Precision routes for autonomous vehicles (air & ground)

Infrastructure inspections (runways, taxiways, lighting, communications networks, buildings, etc.)
Perimeter surveillance
Automated ground vehicle operations (snow removal, lawn mowing)
Arrival / Departure procedures

Improved Safety & Security

Preventing runway incursions
Air-to-air collision avoidance
Facility user authentication and tracking

Airport Applications

Examples

Runway / Taxiway Inspection

Currently, this process is done using visual observation techniques by facility staff which can vary in quality management depending on the skill and experience of the inspector.

AeroNet will give the opportunity to use Artificial Intelligence to automate and enhance the inspection process for more uniform and complete results. Leveraging AeroNet along with AI and high resolution image sensors will improve the identification of:

- Surface anomalies (foreign objects, excessive surface wear, cracks, pot-holes)
- Runway lighting outages
- Wildlife detection

Perimeter Inspection, Surveillance

Perimeter inspections are first line of defense to protecting our air transportation infrastructure. Three times a day, airport security and grounds maintenance perform a perimeter integrity and security inspection, which takes 1 hour per cycle.

Leveraging the AeroNet, airport management can now deploy a precision route for an aerial vehicle to inspect the perimeter in 15 minutes. -- These inspections could be done at a much more frequent basis, day or night.

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