Knowledge is meant to be shared !

Today's IT market is developing at such a terrific pace, that it is an ever more complex task for any company to gain an overview over the IT world allowing to select the adequate solutions for a particular requirement. This is of course just the same in the airport industry, where new technologies are constantly being developed with the aim of increasing an airport’s productivity and therefore its competitiveness.

Technologies such as Ticketless Travel, Wireless Local Area Networks, B2B (Business to Business) solutions, Internet Airport Portals, Real Time Resource Management, and Biometrics-Based Security Systems are only a small selection among the large number of new tools that the management of airports and ground handling agents will have to deal with in the years to come.

An efficient way to keep the necessary overview over the IT world and implement the right solutions, is to establish a partnership with specialized IT partners, who will commit themselves to take up the responsibility for the above requirements. This will leave airport operators and ground handlers free to focus on their core competence, and will help to save resources that can be better invested in enhancing the airport’s infrastructure and ground handling service levels.

Siemens offers a broad variety of IT solutions supporting virtually the complete range of airport operations and management activities.

We think our portfolio can best be represented using a “sandwich” model, with the project type as the fundamental basis of all further elements of the offer.

 
 

  Customer Type 
No two airports are exactly alike. Requirements differ substantially depending on whether it’s a greenfield project, an plan for expanding or modernizing certain systems, or an efficiency improvement scheme. Of course, the location of the airport plays a significant role, too.



Based on these underlying facts, our offering can be built from three essential groups of ingredients:

  • The services required, which may range from early planning and consulting all the way to the installation and commissioning of comprehensive turnkey systems.
  • The infrastructure required to run the desired systems, from basic networks to displays and computer hardware and peripherals.
  • And finally the most essential area: applications and solutions, which have the potential of saving enormous resources and tap hidden revenue potentials.

 
     Process Modelling
These offerings are linked by a “layer” of process modeling. This ensures that all the systems and technologies are working together to support smooth processes, seamless customer services and cost-efficient internal routines, rather than forming islands of information with no advantages for the overall organization.

 

The final “topping” is defined by the systems integration, which enables the transformation and transmission of crucial information across the entire organization. Here it is not just the amount of information available that counts ‑ at least as important is the meaningful combination of different data and the well-targeted accuracy with which the information is distributed.
 

 
 

Systems Integration    
What enables the aviation community to plan their activities accurately and to adapt to changes ‑ which are the rule, not the exception! ‑ speedily and appropriately is, on the one hand, the flow of data inside the airport, and on the other hand and probably even more important, the communication of information with the outside world.
It is certainly true that aircraft fly with fuel, but on the ground they’re fuelled by information.



With hardware, systems, services, processes and integration supplied by Siemens and perfectly adapted to the specific circumstances of the airport, “I didn’t know...” is an excuse of the past!