This Hybrid Solution Helps Managing Queues Easier and Cheaper

Karima Kouidri

Most queue-management systems

today work on either WiFi or camera technology, each of which comes with its unique benefits and disadvantages. Imagine what is possible when you combine the two.
Combining and refining existing technologies to take maximum advantage of their benefits, while at the same time reducing – or even eliminating – the negatives, provides the perfect opportunity to bring real change to the market. That is why we are excited to propose a market-leading hybrid Cam/Wi-Fi solution, which does just that.


Sensors, whether camera or WiFi-based, are costly to install and calibrate, and there is a direct correlation between numbers, cost and lead-time. In other words, keeping the volume to a minimum while maintaining a high accuracy level is in everybody’s interest.
Thanks to sophisticated data fusion, the hybrid Cam/WiFi solution can calculate occupancy numbers with high precision, thereby minimising the number of camera installations, while still achieving near 100% penetration. Also, robust queue time measurements, as well as state-of-the-art, predicted waiting times can be presented.

Orange curve: Occupancy based on manual in/out counts. Blue curve: Occupancy based on the BlipTrack Cam/WiFi Hybrid solution.

The BlipTrack Cam/WiFi hybrid combines the strengths and minimises the disadvantages of two independent technologies, giving you a solution that:

+ provides high accuracy as with a pure camera-based solution, but at a significantly lower cost due to fewer instalments;

+ thanks to fewer instalments, is quicker to implement and faster to calibrate;

+  has a >95% sample rate, which is more than adequate for measuring occupancy and queue;

+  robust to ceiling heights and obstructive views and;

+  does not require a dedicated network for sensor connectivity;

Solutions to measure occupancy and queue times do not need to result in cameras taking up every available corner, nor do they need to be prohibitively expensive. By using the right combination of cameras and WiFi sensors, we are helping make sure that the passenger experience is smoother, quicker and much more pleasant.

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Munich Airport trials AI-enabled robot in Terminal 2

Karima Kouidri

Munich Airport is testing a humanoid robot equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) in its Terminal 2.

The robot, named Josie Pepper, welcomed passengers in the non-public area of the terminal. For her first deployment, the robot speaks English and waits near the departure for the shuttle to the satellite building. Here, it welcomes passengers and answers their questions about shops, restaurants and air traffic.
The computer is connected to the Internet via WLAN so has access to a cloud in which spoken information is processed, interpreted and linked to the data of the airport. The type of robot does not speak finished text, but answers individually to a question through its ability to learn.
The 1.2m-tall robot was developed by the French company SoftBank Robotics and it powered by artificial intelligence and Watson Internet of Things technology from the IBM cloud. When the robot speaks, it lights up green around its eyes. Its hands and fingers are human-like, and it moves on rollers.
The pilot phase will analyze how Josie Pepper reacts with passengers and how they receive the robot.

Written by Kirstie Pickering
March 6, 2018

source : https://tinyurl.com/y7daj36t

This company plans to use AI to reduce baggage mishandling at airports

Karima Kouidri

Geneva-based IT and telecommunications services firm SITA will employ artificial intelligence (AI)

and other new technologies to solve issues around baggage movement in airports in order to save time and cost of operations.

According to a white paper by the company, more than 4.5 billion bags are handled by industry baggage systems each year but airlines and airports will have to cope with twice that number as passenger numbers are set to double over the next 20 years. Though the air transport sector has brought down the annual mishandling cost from $4.22 billion to $2.1 billion, the industry is still looking at ways to bring down the number.

“SITA has a unique role to play in realizing the potential of data, and baggage management is one area that will benefit. It is an area we are strongly focused on, collaborating across the industry to innovate,” Ilya Gutlin, president of SITA Air Travel Solutions, said.

According to SITA, the industry’s immediate focus should be on implementing the International Air Transport Association’s Resolution 753. This resolution requires member airlines keep track of each bag, share that tracking information with all incumbents involved, and deliver those bags back to passengers at their destination.

“The bag tracking data that will be generated and collected under Resolution 753 will provide the air transport industry with a rich stream of data. This can be enhanced with AI tools to create greater efficiencies in baggage operations and, ultimately, to improve our experience as passengers,” Gutlin explained.

From an operations point of view, AI will allow airports and airlines to learn what baggage routes cause the most stress on their systems and what factors are most likely to cause them, he said. These systems could also generate insight into the patterns of baggage movements that would enable airlines to deliver bags more effectively, Gutlin added.

“In this vision of the future, autonomous loaders could be used to transport bags between the terminal and aircraft. Baggage data will also allow airlines and airports to provide passengers more relevant information on their baggage as it makes its journey from departure to destination,” SITA explained in the paper.

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Airfare Big Data: What’s in it for your airport?

Karima Kouidri

Airfare Big Data: What’s in it for your airport? Network monitoring & route development new source of insight

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

Airfare data is highly relied upon by airlines for pricing activities and route profitability studies. Still few airports are tapping into this source of insight.

In this webinar we will look at how Airfare Big Data allows Airports to:

    • Analyse airline customers’ performance
    • Identify new revenue opportunities

We will also analyse one of the most celebrated success stories of 2017: Norwegian’s long-haul operations from London Gatwick to New York J.F.K. We will look at how to evaluate the airline’s performance and its impact on Gatwick’s operations.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Chris Buckingham

Senior VP Sales at Infare

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Anders Nygaard

BI Solutions Product Manager at Infare

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Porsche to Develop Passenger Drone

Karima Kouidri

Porsche to Develop Passenger Drone, German Report Claims

While Porsche AG hasn’t officially confirmed its plans to join the passenger drone industry, the company’s sales director thinks it’d make sense.

An exclusive report by German automotive news site Automobilwoche claimed on Saturday that Porsche is so eager to join the passenger drone industry that the car company would soon be ready to present some concept art. On Friday, we reported that the CEO of Boeing—the largest industrial company in the United States—was highly confident that flying taxis would take off within a decade. The biggest German, high-performance sports car company entering this nascent industry only serves as strong support for that theory. Essentially, this news—if true—would mean more competition, investment, and innovation in the field. Porsche joining in would certainly ramp up the pace and serve to make passenger drones a reality sooner rather than later.
While Porsche AG has confirmed it is working on an “Airtaxi,” as the German report puts it, the company’s sales director Detlev von Platen wouldn’t be shocked if the automobile manufacturer was working on a drone. “It does make sense,” von Platen said. “When I’m driving from Zuffenhausen to the Stuttgart Airport, I need at least half an hour, when I’m lucky. With the aircraft it’d be three and a half minutes,” he posited.
While this is currently all we know about Porsche’s plans on joining the passenger drone business, this is a business move with some foresight and makes sense from an outside perspective. The drone industry has increased dramatically in the past few years, with passenger drone companies having new competition every other week, it seems. The idea of taking a flying taxi to the airport is certainly already popular, but the recent growth in manufacturing and development actually makes it seem within reach.

With companies like Ehang, Airbus, Boeing, Uber, and a wide variety of other giant tech and aircraft companies innovating and competing, we’re hoping everyone learns from each other, and a refined, safe, environmentally friendly passenger drone is eventually birthed into the world. Perhaps Boeing’s CEO was right, and we’ll be taking a drone to the airport when we’re in a rush sometime before 2028. Stay tuned.

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Airport Advisor.. The app to mark airports services

Karima Kouidri

Airport Advisor is the app that allow passengers to mark Airports Services.

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“This is what has to change for Travel Retail to survive” – Hamburg Aviation Conference

Karima Kouidri

Creating a truly seamless customer experience for shopping

Using real life examples of global airports including #Auckland, #Heathrow and #Frankfurt #Airport you will learn about innovative use cases for multi venue retailers such as #airports, train stations, #airlines, booking portal, creating a seamless shopping experience for customers and enhancing revenues through #digitalisation.

Speaker: Manuel Heidler, Director Aviation Products at AOE.
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TSA is testing explosive-detection technology with Amtrak

Karima Kouidri

The Transportation Security Administration and Amtrak are testing new technology to detect concealed explosives,

the TSA said Tuesday.
The equipment, known as “stand off explosive detection technology” can detect an explosive when an individual passes by the device, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a news release. An alarm would go off on the equipment operator’s laptop, triggered by an individual’s “naturally occurring emissions from the human body.”
The tests will be conducted at New York’s Pennsylvania Station in the Amtrak terminal.

TSA is testing explosive-detection technology with Amtrak from CNBC.

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An Amtrak Police officer works with the new devices designed to detect explosives at New York City’s Penn Station on February 27, 2018 in New York City.
Protecting so-called soft targets like railway stations has been a challenge for security officials, who are tasked with ensuring safety but need to balance that with ensuring the smooth movement of hundreds of thousands of travelers.

The TSA’s administrator, David Pekoske, said in November that airport-like security, in which passengers have to line up for personal and carry-on bag screening, was not necessary at rail stations.
“We don’t intend to roll out anything like what we have in the airports,” Pekoske said, adding that random passenger checks and police with canines among other measures are sufficient. “We are satisfied at his point.”
However, in December, a man was injured by a pipe bomb he had attached to his torso with Velcro in a blast that went off at a 42nd Street subway station in Manhattan.
The technology aims to help officials detect concealed suicide vests or other improvised explosives, the TSA said, which is better known for its passenger screening at U.S. airports.
“The use of these devices enables a rail or transit agency to help safeguard against terrorist threats in the mass transit environment,” the TSA said. “TSA is supplying two models of the equipment for the purposes of the pilot.”
The TSA last year started testing the equipment in the Los Angeles transit system.

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