Technology
Broadband wavelength absorption panels, a new concept for the electric air taxi era
Aeroberm is a modular, elevated steel vertipad system with proprietary broadband wavelength absorption surface panels. The geometry is designed to diffuse rotor downwash and outwash up to ninety percent faster so wind-speed thresholds surrounding the pad can more quickly be reduced to the 34.5mph required for safety by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The choice is quite simple, to achieve downwash/outwash safety you either provide a large safety area around a vertipad, or you utilise the Aeroberm to safely shrink that space, saving significantly on capital costs.
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The patent that deals with the showstoppers for Advanced Air Mobility
Sure you could paint a circle on a tarmac and call it a vertiport but the Aeroberm design goes so much further.
We target the three biggest barriers to urban vertiports.
The end result?
- Safer operations on smaller footprints.
- Fast modular construction.
- Standards accepted by air safety regulators and insurers.
Fractal surface, vortex dissipation
The fractal surface intercepts and dissipates rotor wake energy, significantly reducing the blast hazard to people, vehicles and nearby structures. Greater viscous dissipation of airflows translates to safer vertiports on smaller footprints.
Neighbourhood amenity
Quieter at the source
By fragmenting rotor vortices at the surface, the fractal panel disrupts the coherent structures that are the primary source of blade-vortex interaction noise, the signature thumping sound that leads to community opposition to low-altitude flight.
Fire Suppression · Total Immersion
Lithium-ion battery fires are one of the biggest problems to solve in urban air mobility. Conventional systems can put out the flame, but the battery keeps burning internally, and can reignite hours later.
Aeroberm solves this differently.
The vertipad includes an integrated dunk tank that fully submerges the aircraft battery in water. Total immersion is recognised by leading experts as the only conclusive way to stop a lithium battery fire, not just suppress it.
In dense urban environments, that distinction may determine whether a vertiport gets approved at all.
How the patented fractal panel actually works (without an engineering degree)
When an air taxi lands, its rotors blast powerful spinning columns of air downward and outward, fast enough to scatter debris, knock over people, and make urban landings genuinely dangerous. The problem is that aircraft produce vortices in many different sizes at once, and conventional surfaces designed to handle one size simply ignore the rest. Aeroberm's fractal panel solves this with a mathematically self-similar arrangement of vanes, a pattern that repeats at every scale simultaneously, so there is always a feature the right size to intercept whatever vortex arrives. As the air travels across the surface, the panel strips out energy, destabilises the spinning columns so they break apart rapidly, and steers the remaining flow downward rather than letting it race outward at ground level. The result: dangerous outwash is broken up, weakened, and redirected before it ever reaches the edge of the pad.
Custom helipad vs Aeroberm
| Factor | Custom helipad | Aeroberm |
|---|---|---|
| Typical capex requirements | $1M+ programme, long lead time and multiple consultants | Modular kit aimed at scalable installations at lower costs |
| Footprint drivers | Large diameter + obstacle clearances | Fractal panels enable significant reduction in footprint = cost saving |
| Fire strategy | Varies; generally unsuitable for lithium battery fires | Optional dunking tank to quickly and conclusively extinguish battery fires |
| IP position | Commodity engineering | Provisionally patented surface technology |
| Noise | Flat landing surfaces increase aircraft noise in ground effect | Fractal panels ameliorate noise to facilitate community acceptance |
Built for the regulators who will decide what's safe
Aeroberm is being developed in active engagement with air safety regulators across multiple jurisdictions, including the FAA in the United States, EASA in Europe, CASA in Australia, the DGCA in India, and the GCAA in the UAE, with a single strategic aim: to become the recognised standard for safe air taxi landing surfaces in urban areas.
Regulatory approval for vertiports will ultimately be jurisdiction-specific, but the underlying engineering requirements are converging globally. Aeroberm is designed to sit credibly inside that emerging consensus, aligned with FAA engineering guidance, EASA's evolving vertiport design framework, CASA's Advanced Air Mobility roadmap for Australia, India's nascent UAM regulatory pathway, and the UAE's ambition to lead the Gulf region in advanced air mobility deployment.
Our goal is straightforward: when a property owner, developer, or city wants to build a vertiport, Aeroberm should be the surface that makes approval easier to obtain and simpler to document. We are positioning Aeroberm to be the global default for eVTOL landing surfaces on private real estate, the solution regulators point to, and the standard the market expects.
Patent status
Protected. Proprietary. Ours alone.
Aeroberm's fractal modular surfacing technology is protected globally by a provisional patent, and that protection matters. No other vertipad surface in the world combines self-similar vane geometry, multi-scale vortex dissipation, and active flow redirection in a single manufacturable system. We didn't stumble onto this solution; our scientists engineered it from first principles, validated it through university-grade CFD simulation, and locked it down.
The patent anchors everything that follows: manufacturing at scale, defensible licensing to partners and operators worldwide, and the confidence for investors and real estate owners to back a solution that cannot simply be copied. For those building the vertiport infrastructure of the future, there is no off-the-shelf alternative that does what Aeroberm does, because until now, nothing like it existed.
This is the foundation of a global standard, not a prototype sitting in a workshop. The intellectual property is ours. The science is proven. The market is waiting.