TruWeather Solutions and VOTIX: A Powerful Partnership for Smarter Automation

Together, TruWeather Solutions and VOTIX are building a connected, data-driven future for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), and Drone as First Responder (DFR) operations.

Reston, VA – January 24, 2025 – TruWeather Solutions and VOTIX, two industry leaders, are proud to announce their strategic partnership to advance the future of automation. By combining TruWeather’s real-time, hyper-local weather intelligence with VOTIX’s cutting-edge drone orchestration and automation platform, this collaboration offers a powerful, integrated solution that enhances scalability, efficiency, and safety across the UAS, AAM, and DFR ecosystems.

The Role of Real-Time Data in Enabling AI

Real-time data is the cornerstone of success as the aviation industry moves toward increased automation. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds incredible potential for optimizing UAS, AAM, and DFR operations, but it is only as accurate as the quality of the training data set.

TruWeather Solutions bridges the critical 3D gap left by traditional weather measurements with its hyper-local data and analytics platform, V360. What sets V360 apart is its innovative integration of cost-effective, advanced weather sensors that deliver precise, high-quality data. This data seamlessly integrates into a robust weather intelligence ecosystem, offering tailored, localized insights designed to meet users' specific operational demands.

“This real-time precision weather data collected where drones are flying will replace the need to depend on METARS that can be 5 to 20 miles away. This is essential for the future of AI-based autonomous flight control systems to make informed decisions about flight paths, timing, and risk mitigation, particularly in dynamic or high-risk environments,” said Don Berchoff, CEO, TruWeather Solutions.

Paving the Way for Scalable Automation and Time-Critical Missions

VOTIX excels in creating a connected technological ecosystem designed to maximize efficiency and safety. VOTIX is the first platform capable of truly delivering drone automation, orchestration, and remote operation end-to-end while being hardware agnostic. “VOTIX is at the forefront of automation, but automation is only as effective as the data it relies on,” said Edwin Sanchez, CEO of VOTIX. “Combining TruWeather’s precise weather intelligence with our real-time Visual Artificial Intelligence, our platform can provide unparalleled situational awareness and decision-making capabilities, enabling seamless mission planning, fleet management, and routing solutions, and unprecedented real-time decision-making capabilities – especially for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations.”

More specifically, in Drone as First Responder (DFR) operations, this collaboration delivers significant benefits by enabling faster, safer, and more effective deployments in time-critical, fast-paced situations. Integrating precise weather data reduces environmental risks, ensuring reliable performance even in complex and dynamic conditions.

The synergy between TruWeather Solutions and VOTIX underscores the necessity of integrating real-world sensor data into advanced automation systems. The combined capabilities of TruWeather and VOTIX provide operators with the tools they need to achieve mission success, improve safety, and reduce operational risk. Beyond individual operations, this collaboration is set to drive innovation across the industry, paving the way for a more connected and data-driven future.

About TruWeather Solutions

TruWeather was established in 2015, driven by the vision of CEO Don Berchoff, a former Science and Technology Director at the National Weather Service, to commercialize next generation weather science and technologies. TruWeather stands at the forefront of revolutionizing our nation's strategy for aligning weather data and services across various transportation modes—be it air, land, or marine. The company, with its 30-strong team of scientists, software engineers, technologists, and operators, developed the V360 platform for the next generation of mobility. This comprehensive sensor-driven, data and analytics platform delivers real-time observed data, analytics, forecasts, alerts, and enhanced hazard detection through both API and web interfaces. At the heart of TruWeather’s business model lies the commitment to reliable science. They specifically target challenges like safety and efficiency as operations scale and reliably address the economics of weather for a greater return on investment (ROI) for stakeholders.

About VOTIX

VOTIX is an American drone software company that developed the first platform capable of delivering drone automation, orchestration, and remote operation end-to-end while being hardware agnostic. Very successful entrepreneurs founded the company with decades of experience in Enterprise software, drone manufacturing and operation, IT/networking/communications, and cybersecurity. Combining all these advanced and diverse experiences and years of research and development, VOTIX created a revolutionary platform that orchestrates the entire drone ecosystem, connecting all the “moving parts” of the complex drone operation, making it easy to operate and feasible to automate.

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