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AIRSIGHT is the advanced Telematics solution for Airport ground handling operations

Airsight has been created to give Airside Operations, Safety and Fleet managers the tools to proactively manage the ground vehicles operating on the airfield. Benefits include valuable insights to improve safety and compliance, reduce costs, and operate more efficiently.

Navigate through the tabs below to find out more about the product benefits and why Airsight is a vital tool to improve ground based operations on the airfield.

Book a demo today to learn how we can help improve your airside operations with Airsight.

Overview

Align people, processes, and equipment.

Airsight can monitor and analyse the performance, safety, and efficiency of your fleet and external GHA ground handling agents operating airside.

Reduce Operational Costs

Utilisation statistics help balance equipment usage.

Compliance

Ensure that speed limits and parking restirctions are adhered to.

Geofencing

Specific areas for specific vehicles determine where vehicles should and shouldn’t be operating.

Accountability

Monitor driver behaviour including speed, engine idling, journey time and driving style.

Fleet Management

Set parameters and rules for different vehicle types in the fleet.

Security

Secure data with set permissions for specific users.

Alerts and Notifications

Alerts for specific events that require urgent attention.

Reports

Automated bespoke reports for the whole airfield.

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Airport ground operations are extremely busy and complex. The types of vehicles used can vary from a tug to the large de-icing vehicles and fire trucks. Coordinating these vehicles around a vast airfield of enormous aeroplanes can be a logistical challenge to say the least.

The operations on the ground can often go unnoticed by passengers but they are a vital part of a successful airport, ensuring that the aeroplanes are safe, prepared on time with enough fuel, catering, and baggage. Not forgetting the crew and passengers!

Overcome the Challenges

Discover how Airsight can be used to help solve some of the issues that can be encountered when navigating the airfield day to day operations.

Extremely high costs are associated with any delays to a flight turnaround or interruption.

Through timestamped journey replays, Airsight can be used as evidence to determine if any Ground Handling Vehicles caused a delay to a flight. This can avoid lengthy investigations and a blame culture between the airport, airlines and any third party GHA Ground Handling Agents.

With limited space on airfields, illegal parking can result in obstructions that cause delays and contribute to the risk of an incident happening.

Airsight can monitor compliance in line with parking regulations in specific geofenced zones to ensure that vehicles are parked in the right place.

High traffic areas can cause delays and are more at risk for incidents.

Heat maps can identify the high-density areas of activity across the whole airfield. This data can be used to identify bottlenecks and peak times of activity. The information can be used to create new operating procedures that restrict certain non-essential vehicles at certain times to improve efficiencies and safety.

Just as public roads have speed limits for safety, airfields also have specific speed restrictions that vary per zone.

Driving too fast can cause accidents but it can be very difficult to monitor and enforce without Telematics. Airsight can detect any speeding offences within the fleet and identify the regular offenders through driver behaviour monitoring. It removes the need for costly speed trap exercises and equipment that some airports currently use for speeding enforcement programmes.

Accident investigation can be lengthy and unclear without much evidence.

Details from a historical event such as an accident can be reviewed and used as evidence to come to a quicker conclusion. Airsight can monitor precise vehicle location and movements at the time of an incident such as the speed a vehicle was travelling and the point the brake pedal was used. This can also assist with lower insurance costs.

Reducing operating costs whilst delivering an efficient and safe service.

Switch to safe and fuel-efficient driving; The utilisation data Airsight provides can help identify driver behaviours that are notorious for high fuel-consumption, such as speeding, prolonged engine idling, heavy braking, and harsh acceleration. Improving these aspects not only saves fuel but it will also reduce the wear and tear on the vehicle that will save money on maintenance.

Certain vehicles that aren’t used frequently are at risk of low battery levels that can impact their reliability.

Airsight can immediately notify the relevant department when a vehicle battery drops below a certain voltage. The team can locate the vehicle on the airfield via GPS and attend to the issue to avoid a flat battery.

All industries especially Airports are under a lot of pressure to reduce their carbon emissions.

Analyse the overall usage of fleet vehicles over time to optimise and condense the fleet size to help reduce the carbon footprint of your fleet.

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A dedicated Airport Telematics Analysis solution, Airsight provides comprehensive live and historic data for all ground-based airside vehicles.

Airsight can work with a vast collection of airside vehicle types and suppliers including trucks, tugs, tractors, buses and aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicles.

An Airsight telematics box is fitted in the chosen ground-based vehicles in the airside fleet. All on board data including GPS is transmitted through our secure servers that display the information that you want to see. Configurable dashboards and automated reports can be created to pinpoint key areas of improvement, from speeding, parking offences, driver behaviour and fuel utilisation. Alerts can be set up for specific events that require immediate attention to minimise risk, including when the battery on a vehicle is below a certain voltage.

Where current contracts exist with external Ground-Handling Agents, we can integrate with your current Airport operations management software. Airsight can extract the telematics data that other suppliers send to the central database, providing permissions are granted. This means that Airsight can provide an overall view for all airside vehicles, even those that have a third-party telematics device fitted.

Improve Safety

Increased Safety on the airfield is achieved by learning from the data you analyse. Airsight provides a combination of various reporting tools and functions that layer together to give you the full picture.

Timestamped Journey Data Recording

Clear concise evidence showing the start and end point of a vehicle journey. Drill down into the moment a speeding offence took place or where a vehicle entered a restricted zone.

Geofencing

Verify that vehicles are used within scheduled working hours and within the correct locations on the airfield. Also set specific rules for certain vehicles that can enter the zones.

Heatmaps

Heatmaps can recognise traffic heavy areas which may cause increased risk. Identify the peak times and locations of activity across the whole airfield.

Speeding instances can also be viewed by Heatmaps, to visually see the areas where most speeding events occur.

Driver Behaviour Monitoring

Reduce risk and provide a safer working environment with the analysis tools that can identify speeding and parking offences that cause a safety concern. Driver identification and behaviour monitoring ensures that drivers are accountable and remain compliant with airport policies.

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Reduce Costs

Reducing expenditure on fuel and the overall health and maintenance of the fleet can be achieved by monitoring driver behaviours and vehicle usage patterns.

Utilisation Management

View accurate vehicle utilisation statistics to help balance usage of equipment and reduce maintenance costs. Fuel usage can be improved by identifying the driver behaviours and characteristics that are related to higher fuel consumption such as speeding and prolonged engine idling.

Evidence in the event of an accident

Having a telematics system will save money on insurance premiums and the need for lengthy and sometimes costly investigations.

In the event of an incident, revisit the time and place of the event for the vehicle(s) involved to diagnose the cause. Replay journeys and see all vehicle data during the time of the incident to identify the contributing factors.

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Operational Efficiencies

Operational efficiencies will increase productivity and reduce the need for manual investigations saving time and money.

Validation

Eliminate manual paperwork requirements and reduce human error to keep operations safe and in line with airport regulations. Synchronise, log, and store data securely to assist with future audits.

Automated Reports and User Dashboard

Receive tailored reports to focus on specific parameters and set KPI’s. The dashboard is configurable to show the information you want to see with a user-friendly, interactive interface.

Automate reports to track and analyse essential information. Present clear evidence to superiors that highlight areas of improvement in tables and charts. When accessing the dashboard you can categorise by vehicle type, model, areas covered etc. Privacy and security are paramount, with user permissions for sensitive data.

Integrate with your current Software

Airsight can securely communicate both ways with your current central airside operations management software. This includes benefits such as tracking vehicles from a third party that also feed data into the central airside management system.

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The Hardware

Full Ownership

We design and own all the rights to the whole solution (including the software).

Our Airsight Telematics unit comes with an array of modules included to provide all the functionalities you need. BUT we give you the option to choose the functions you want to activate to fulfil your objectives without any wastage. Meaning we can build a bespoke cost effective solution for your requirements today. In the future if you want to add more solutions we can activate the module at a later date.

The hardware includes the following functions:

GPS (as standard).
GSM connection to 2G, 3G & 4G mobile data networks (as standard).
CANbus monitoring (Genuine odometer readings, fuel levels, steering angle etc).
Accelerometers and Gyroscope.
Driver ID – RFID module.
Driver feedback LED.
GPIO (general purpose input-output)
Controlled timed isolator.
Support to accept data from different power management systems

CANbus

Airsight can interpret the data transmitted via the Controller Area Network (CAN bus) in a vehicle.

Vehicle CANbus and role equipment monitoring provides the information you need. Monitor exact fuel usage, engine idling, genuine odometer readings etc.

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Why Choose Ortus?

The Ortus Group don’t provide a one size fits all product. The solution we offer is flexible, with bespoke options available to achieve your objectives. We can seamlessly integrate alongside your current Airport management software for a smooth transition.

The technology we use is tried and trusted by multiple Ambulance Services across the UK. We can gather highly detailed CANbus data for a variety of specialist vehicles. We design and own all the rights to the solution which means we can continue to develop and support the product without being dependent upon third parties.

We will coordinate a full installation roll-out and provide ongoing one-to-one support, training, and best practise.

Get in touch today to find out what we can do for you.

AIRSIGHT is the advanced Telematics solution for Airport ground handling operations

Airsight has been created to give Airside Operations, Safety and Fleet managers the tools to proactively manage the ground vehicles operating on the airfield. Benefits include valuable insights to improve safety and compliance, reduce costs, and operate more efficiently.

Book a demo today to learn how we can help improve your airside operations with Airsight.

Overview

Align people, processes, and equipment.

Overcome the Challenges

Discover how Airsight can be used to help solve some of the issues that can be encountered when navigating the airfield day to day operations.

A dedicated Airport Telematics Analysis solution, Airsight provides comprehensive live and historic data for all ground-based airside vehicles.

Improve Safety

Increased Safety on the airfield is achieved by learning from the data you analyse. Airsight provides a combination of various reporting tools and functions that layer together to give you the full picture.

Timestamped Journey Data Recording

Geofencing

Heatmaps

Driver Behaviour Monitoring

Reduce Costs

Reducing expenditure on fuel and the overall health and maintenance of the fleet can be achieved by monitoring driver behaviours and vehicle usage patterns.

Utilisation Management

Evidence in the event of an accident

Operational Efficiencies

Operational efficiencies will increase productivity and reduce the need for manual investigations saving time and money.

Validation

Automated Reports and User Dashboard

Integrate with your current Software

The Hardware

Full Ownership

CANbus

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