LG Electronics Business Solutions has declared a notable move into Advanced Air Mobility sector, by signing a long-term strategic collaboration agreement with Urban-Air Port.

The partnerships followed an earlier meeting at the Integrated Systems Europe exposition in Barcelona back in January. In a press release announced today (Monday), Urban-Air Port says this latest partnership bolsters its efforts to deploy its next generation vertiport technology around the world.

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.

Ricky Sandhu, Urban-Air Port’s Founder and Executive Chairman, said: “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.”

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.

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.

Seamus Walsh, Enterprise Manager – Energy, Industry, Mobility, LG Electronics, added: 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.”

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 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.

LG 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.