Site local servers for vehicle management

1. A system, comprising:

a communications interface configured to:

establish a communication channel with an electronic vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) multicopter over a hidden wireless network including by authenticating the eVTOL multicopter using a network credential received from the eVTOL multicopter, wherein the eVTOL multicopter is preconfigured with a network name for the hidden wireless network; and

receive a network credential including a vehicle identifier and a vehicle software version from the eVTOL multicopter;

a memory coupled to the communications interface and configured to store associations between vehicle identifiers and vehicle software versions; and

a processor coupled to the communications interface and configured to:

determine a management operation associated with the eVTOL multicopter based at least in part on the received vehicle identifier and the received vehicle software version; and

send the management operation to the eVTOL multicopter.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the communications interface is further configured to establish a communication channel between the system and a remote central server.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the system is configured to send the management operation to the eVTOL multicopter in response to a determination that a communication channel between the eVTOL multicopter and the remote central server is unavailable.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the system is configured to send log data associated with the eVTOL multicopter to the remote central server over the established communication channel.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the associations between vehicle identifiers and vehicle software versions stored in the memory includes a table that associates the eVTOL multicopter, identified by a first vehicle identifier, with a less restrictive version of the software and associates a second eVTOL multicopter, identified by a second vehicle identifier, with a more restrictive version of the software.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein:

the communications interface is further configured to:

establish a second communication channel with a second eVTOL multicopter; and

receive a vehicle identifier and a vehicle software version from the second eVTOL multicopter; and

the processor is further configured to:

determine a second management operation associated with the second eVTOL multicopter based at least in part on the vehicle identifier and the vehicle software version to received from the second eVTOL multicopter; and

send the second management operation to the eVTOL multicopter.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein:

the eVTOL multicopter sends the vehicle identifier while airborne;

the processor sends the management operation while the eVTOL multicopter is airborne; and

the eVTOL multicopter performs an operation associated with the management operation after landing.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the management operation includes a permission configuration preventing an associated operation from being performed by the eVTOL multicopter prior to landing.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to send the management operation to the eVTOL multicopter at a predefined point in a flight path.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to send the management operation to the eVTOL multicopter based at least in part on conditions associated with a flight path of the eVTOL multicopter.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the eVTOL multicopter and the system exchange information over the communication channel in fragments.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the fragments are ordered by importance and group identifiers.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the fragments include at least a portion of a binary split into chunks with a corresponding sequence number.

14. A method, comprising:

establishing, by a site local server, a communication channel with an electronic vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) multicopter over a hidden wireless network including by authenticating the eVTOL multicopter using a network credential received from the eVTOL multicopter, wherein the eVTOL multicopter is preconfigured with a network name for the hidden wireless network;

receiving a network credential including a vehicle identifier and a vehicle software to version from the eVTOL multicopter, wherein a memory associated with the site local server is configured to store associations between vehicle identifiers and vehicle software versions;

determining a management operation associated with the eVTOL multicopter based at least in part on the received vehicle identifier and the received vehicle software version; and

sending the management operation to the eVTOL multicopter.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein:

the network credential is received from the eVTOL multicopter while the eVTOL multicopter airborne; and

the management operation is sent while the eVTOL multicopter is airborne.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the eVTOL multicopter and the system exchange information over the communication channel in fragments.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the fragments are ordered by importance and group identifiers.

18. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

establishing, by a site local server, a communication channel with an electronic vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) multicopter over a hidden wireless network including by authenticating the eVTOL multicopter using a network credential received from the eVTOL multicopter, wherein the eVTOL multicopter is preconfigured with a network name for the hidden wireless network;

receiving a network credential including a vehicle identifier and a vehicle software version from the eVTOL multicopter, wherein a memory associated with the site local server is configured to store associations between vehicle identifiers and vehicle software versions;

determining a management operation associated with the eVTOL multicopter based at least in part on the received vehicle identifier and the received vehicle software version; and

sending the management operation to the eVTOL multicopter.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein:

the network credential is received from the eVTOL multicopter while the eVTOL multicopter airborne; and

the management operation is sent while the eVTOL multicopter is airborne.

20. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the eVTOL multicopter and the system exchange information over the communication channel in fragments.