use case

Accessing Airport Infrastructure Data

The Requirement

Airports typically have large and sometimes complex infrastructures, with elevators, escalators and moving walkways, baggage handling equipment, HVAC, loading bridges, and much more. To maintain services and operate efficiently the entire airport infrastructure must continue to function.

Data accessibility at all levels is essential for monitoring equipment and processes to ensure continuity of operations and quality of service.

The Airport Internet of Things (IOT) is really a subset of Industrial IOT commonly known as IIOT. So just as many industrial organizations are creating digital twins of their equipment and infrastructure to enable improved operations, so too can airports exploit their infrastructure data. The challenge is that connection to equipment like elevators, escalators, conveyors, sortation systems, and boarding bridges, can be difficult with complex interfaces and low-level protocols.

The Solution

SMARTUNIFIER is a connectivity platform that enables rapid development and deployment of structured, reusable interfaces providing access to key data sources by applications for optimization of airport operations.

A connectivity solution that enables fast, easy, and scalable integration of systems and infrastructure supports the movement towards the digitalization of airport processes.

With support for a variety of industrial communication protocols and formats out of the box, it is easy to connect these devices to any kind of on-premises or cloud-based target IT System, such as Asset Monitoring, Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Management, Energy Management, Asset Management, Operational Technology Service Management (OTSM), Capacity Planning and Management, Environmental Monitoring and Management, etc.

The Solution

SMARTUNIFIER is a connectivity platform that enables rapid development and deployment of structured, reusable interfaces providing access to key data sources by applications for optimization of airport operations.

A connectivity solution that enables fast, easy, and scalable integration of systems and infrastructure supports the movement towards the digitalization of airport processes.

With support for a variety of industrial communication protocols and formats out of the box, it is easy to connect these devices to any kind of on-premises or cloud-based target IT System, such as Asset Monitoring, Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Management, Energy Management, Asset Management, Operational Technology Service Management (OTSM), Capacity Planning and Management, Environmental Monitoring and Management, etc.

Solution Features

  • Can be deployed on multiple platforms: on-premises, on the edge, in data centres, in the cloud.
  • Virtually unlimited scalability through a fully decentralized architecture (Swarm) that can be centrally managed.
  • Rapid real-time protocol conversion enables timely and reliable access to equipment data.
  • Reusable and versioned interface models for similar equipment- or device types.
  • Virtually unlimited number of communication connections, protocols, and information models (multi-channel capability).
  • Configurable mapping means connectivity coding is minimized.
  • Development and deployment of connections can be completed in hours or days instead of weeks and months.
  • Interface instances can be deployed, monitored, and managed from a central location with SMARTUNIFIER Manager.

Solution Benefits

  • With a decentralized architecture, no large up-front investment is required to start implementing interfaces
  • Rapid configuration and deployment of interfaces saves time and money
  • The benefits of upper-level applications are realized much sooner

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