The first-ever project of equipment of airplanes RFID tags - in Pobeda airline

Pobeda airline implemented the first-ever project of equipment of airplanes RFID tags within which on all crash equipment of each board the radio tags which are read out by means of tablet a kompyyuteraistochnik are established^[1].

Several hundred RFID tags in each of airplanes fasten literally to everything that is not nailed — from life jackets to seat belts. Also tags fasten on heat resisting gloves, megaphones, oxygen cylinders, masks, fire extinguishers, etc.

Project objective - to accelerate inventory of crash equipment which happens after each flight. One of stewards starts a special application on the tablet and passes on salon, scanning RFID tags. Each detected tag responds a short sound signal, and at the end the application generates the report on existence of all crash equipment. The report is right there loaded on the server: Yota SIM cards are installed in tablets, and a cloud part is implemented based on Microsoft Azure.

If there is no equipment, it at once is visible in the report, respectively, in this case the command for departure of platform buses with passengers is not given and there is their check.

Without the equipment the airplane cannot be allowed to the following run (i.e. if onboard there is not enough life jacket — means, to one of passengers it will be refused transportation). Manual inventory takes away much more time and forces: vests alone under chairs — 189 pieces, and everything it is necessary to check them. Thus, thanks to RFID technology Victory managed to reduce the minimum turn-around time for the aircraft from 30 to 25 minutes. It is one of key KPI in passenger aircraft: the sense is that the less time goes from an arrival to the airport to a departure the following run, the cost efficiency of airline as the airplane brings income only is higher when it flies, and is not necessary on the earth. At the sizes of the fleet of Victory in fifteen airplanes reduction of time of inventory of each board for 5 minutes gives the chance to perform at least one additional flight, without increasing the park of aircrafts.

Besides, RFID tags contain information on expiration dates of some objects (for example, fire extinguishers), it simplifies maintenance them in a ready status.

Other airlines, including foreign already became interested in the solution; to two Russian there is implementation of a similar system. Technically it is implemented based on RFID tags of Confidex and industrial Senter ST907 tablets. These devices are devices on smartphone chipsets of Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 or 410 (depending on a configuration) and 1/8 or 2/16 GB of memory and the 7-inch touch display with the resolution of 1280х800 points are equipped. All this works under Android 5.1. The main difference of industrial tablets from household is a pylevlagozashchit and the shock-resistant body and also an opportunity for work with the broad range of temperatures. Besides, this tablet can be equipped with the reader of RFID tags, scanners of barcodes, etc. that does it by the convenient tool in the field of trade, logistics, an inventory control and the other industries where operational inventory of tangible assets is required. The cost of such tablet exceeds 30 thousand rub.

Tablets are not stored in airplanes, and issued to crews during the preflight briefings. To start work it is necessary to start the application and to select a specific board — the database of ASO set on it will open. After that when clicking the Scan button there is consecutive mark sensing. The range of each tag makes 1-5 m.

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