USE CASE
e-Aircraft® DataCapture
An air-to-ground service to automatically collect aircraft data
The aviation community is under constant pressure to guarantee safety, improve on-time departures & arrival and achieve
higher customer satisfaction
Issues
Manual retrieval means data errors and delays
Manual retrieval is done only days after a flight has
landed. It requires maintenance people to fill in
information manually, which often leads to files being
incomprehensible for flight data analysis
Expensive hardware and installation
Automatic collection solutions on the market require
purchase and installation of expensive new
hardware (ex. Teledyne)
Complex integration with airline system
Each new data collection solution adopted by an
airline requires launch of a complete ICT
implementation. Airlines end up having complex,
disparate data management systems.
No consistent dataflow monitoring
Safety analysts are requesting maintenance people
to re-collect the data from aircraft when the data
they need is missing.
Sensitive aircraft data
Aircraft data are confidential and sensitive, in
particular to pilot unions. Data collections and
analysis processes have to comply with strict airline
policies.
DataCapture Solution
Aircraft data is collected and packaged on-
board, and transferred right after the aircraft
lands using any IP links available (cellular or
Wi-Fi). Multi link transfers are possible
DataCapture can be installed on a selection
of existing EFB tablets or AID. SITAONAIR
can provide the HW as an option, for their
aircraft that are not equipped.
DataCapture is delivered fully integrated at
system level, from aircraft to ground.
As part of the service, SITAONAIR operations
proactively monitor the system, air to ground.
A user interface allows the user to request a
file from aircraft, and the status and
configuration of the on-board software.
Data is encrypted on board with state of the
art security libraries. On ground, aircraft data is
collected at our private Cloud, securely behind
the firewall.
DataCapture Benefits
All data can be transferred during turn
around time.
25%
Minimized roaming costs thanks to
of aircraft data
configurable communication policies. are regularly lost
Airline can leverage existing AIDs. They
do not have to invest in dedicated ground IT
infrastructure.
$10k/hour
Service Adoption is made simple, cost of keeping a
leveraging SITAONAIR expertise in system
integration. commercial
aircraft grounded
Safety analysts can focus on their core
job, they get aircraft data accurately and on
time to conduct their analysis, without
having to worry about data transfers or IT
matters. They can easily request additional
data from aircraft using the friendly GUI.
Data transfers are fully secured,
leveraging SITAONAIR long trusted
experience in handling critical flight
operations data.