VoloIQ Aerospace Cloud – DRONELIFE

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby

Urban air mobility (UAM) pioneer Volocopter announced today a strategic collaboration with Microsoft on the development of an aerospace cloud system in Microsoft Azure in order to meet growing cloud computing requirements for eVTOLs, UAM, and autonomous aviation.  Continue reading below or listen:

Upon becoming available for commercial use, Azure will support the digital platform VoloIQ, Volocopter’s UAM operating system, as well as its coming transition to autonomous operations.

Intended to become the standard UAM operating system for all of Volocopter’s operations, VoloIQ’s expansive modular structure will cover a wide range of areas such as booking and e-commerce, commercial scheduling, operational network planning, flight planning, flight monitoring, supplying airspace digital twins, and vehicle data logging and analysis. Volocopter has selected…