LG Electronics Business Solutions powers up Urban-Air Port with strategic collaboration
Urban-Air Port Founder, Ricky Sandhu with LG’s VP of ID Global Sales & Marketing
Global electronics partner, LG Electronics Business Solutions Company powers up Urban-Air Port with strategic collaboration.
LG Electronics Business Solutions Company declares a notable move into Advanced Air Mobility sector by signing long-term strategic collaboration agreement with Urban-Air Port.
Collaboration bolsters Urban-Air Ports’ efforts to deploy its next generation vertiport technology around the world.
Following a meeting in Barcelona in January at the Integrated Systems Europe exposition, Urban Air-Port (UAP) today announces a collaboration agreement with global technology leader, LG Electronics. The agreement was signed by LG’s Head of ID Global Sales & Marketing and Executive Chairman of Urban-Air Port, Ricky Sandhu.
This latest news builds on a productive relationship between the two companies: UAP has collaborated with LG since 2022, when LG supplied digital infrastructure for the ground-breaking Coventry launch of its AirOne vertiport. The signing sets in place a strategic, long-term commitment to work together to develop and serve the market for and operation of safe, reliable, and efficient advanced air mobility (AAM) systems globally using UAP and LG solutions cutting-edge technologies.
Why is this important?
This unique commitment allows UAP to provide its clients with fully integrated and seamlessly connected vertiports, reducing costs and complexity by incorporating existing state-of-the-art LG technology, as well as soon to be announced technologies.
The first step in this important relationship is the development of a world-first, LG-enabled Urban Air Port AirOne Next Gen - a multi-stacked hangar vertiport reference design. In the longer term, LG and UAP intend to develop a set of products, designs and services to further widescale adoption globally. The two firms’ technical and research divisions will collaborate on use cases and specifications for multiple applications. This collaboration will be guided by a steering committee drawn from senior leadership, and the impact of this partnership on the industry is expected to be significant.
The LG/UAP teams’ work will also lead to new market insights and deeper understanding of intermodal connectivity requirements for vertiports, as well as the diversity of customer requirements and experience. As part of this preferred partnership, their teams will host workshops, develop simulations, and conduct surveys with the aim of building a standardised LG/UAP showcase vertiport that can be tailored on spec.
“This is a hugely exciting moment in the evolution of our technology. By incorporating LG’s immense technical expertise and product portfolio, we can jointly offer the most advanced and seamlessly integrated vertiport infrastructure. With LG’s focus on quality and efficiency, combined with our focus on safety and innovation, we are very excited about revealing our fully coordinated, UAP & LG reference design vertiport for order on spec. This industry needs to scale and to do that, consolidation across multi levels will be required – this simplification for vertiports is one more positive step towards bringing this technology to market.”
LGs’ Richard Topping, Hugh Park, John Won, Seamus Walsh & Paul Lee join Ricky Sandhu from Urban-Air Port to cement the new strategic alliance between the companies.
LG recognises that UAP is a world-class infrastructure designer and will support mutual exploration of international expansion of its services. In parallel, LG also becomes part of UAP's market-leading ecosystem, partner network and joins existing customers and partners including Supernal, a part of Hyundai Motor Group in the US, those in the Middle East and in Asia Pacific. Together, LG and UAP intend to develop a set of products, designs and services to account for elements of the value chain required to deliver and sell UAP’s infrastructure complemented with LG platforms and services.
““The urban air mobility market is only in its infancy, but with so much investment going into developing the vehicles, there remains a huge opportunity to design, create, and deploy the multi-faceted infrastructure that’s required to enable them. Urban-Air Port are a true leader in that space, and with our expertise in developing smart solutions for retail, transportation, and digital experiences, we see huge potential for the future in this long-term collaboration.”
About Urban-Air Port®
Urban-Air Port is an award-winning infrastructure technology provider that develops landing & charging infrastructure for new forms of sustainable urban air transport such as passenger and cargo eVTOL air taxis and autonomous delivery drones. Its mission is to enable the electrification of aviation by addressing the largest single constraint to sustainable air mobility – ground infrastructure – in order to create a zero-emission-mobility ecosystem, significantly cutting congestion and air pollution from passenger and cargo transport.
Urban-Air Port is recognised as a world leader in the Advanced Air Mobility sector, with plans to deliver their patented vertiport technology that provides ultra-compact, high-capacity infrastructure that will revolutionise cities around the world, making them more connected, cleaner and accelerating our green economic future. Urban-Air Port’s technology is proven to better respond to the unique characteristics of eVTOL aircraft and therefore offer safer, quieter and more sustainable vertiport infrastructure than any other provider.
The Urban-Air Port technology driven “Vertical Airfield” compacts a conventional airfield and allows for safe electric vertical take-off and landing at height, acting like an aircraft carrier. Urban-Air Port vertiports are 80% smaller than any other provider, embody a modular design for flexible expansion, maximise eVTOL throughput and come with a modular energy storage system – all in all providing an enhanced passenger experience, and optimum performance and range for the eVTOL due to minimised energy consumption in ground operations.
Its Air-One project in Coventry City Centre launched in April 2022 supported by UK Government Research and Innovation budgets was the worlds 1st fully operational vertiport in such dense downtown location with over 15000 visitors and 150 successful flights orchestrated in the complex urban and air environment of downtown Coventry and within Coventry Airports Flight Restriction Zone.
The company is backed by major international partners, including Supernal, a part of Hyundai Motor Group and Directors of M7 Real Estate, part of Oxford Properties. Urban-Air Port’s team of innovators, aeronautical engineers and aerospace experts have worked at companies including Airbus, Foster + Partners, Arup, BAA, Bank of Ireland, Knight Frank, McKinsey, Hyundai Motor Group, Vertical Aerospace, EASA, NATS, Uber, Qatar Airways, H55, and the British Army.
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About LG
LG Electronics is a global innovator in technology and consumer electronics with a presence in almost every country and an international workforce of more than 74,000 across LG's four companies – Home Appliance & Air Solution, Home Entertainment, Vehicle component Solutions and Business Solutions.
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