Software voor Air Traffic Management
Front-end and databases
Every day there are an average of 1000 flights from the largest airport in the Netherlands and this will only increase in the coming years. The challenge here is that everything must be continuously monitored to prevent accidents and to allow flights to run smoothly. At Engineero, we are working on the further development of Air Traffic Management software so that, based on both statistical and real-time data, the daily situations at the airport can be analyzed even better via the associated dashboard.
This technical issue came from an organization that supplies software products to manage, among other things, the traffic of aircraft and vehicles at airports. This software and the applications with which the data can be read by users have been in use for several years - with the advantage that the product has already proven itself. At the same time, this created the desire and need to expand, optimize and modernize the existing software.
“As a remote team, we support the customer. What is nice about this is that we learn from the knowledge of the other team members. For example, one person has a lot of knowledge of front-end and the other of databases. Together we come to great solutions.'' - Remco
Technical issue
It is getting busier at airports and airlines are increasing the pressure to organize more in less time. After all, time is worth money. This poses challenges for ground control. All vehicles, such as the planes of various airlines, but also the luggage carts, fire trucks and tractors that push aircraft, transmit data continuously. All these data streams must be monitorable and linked to meteorological data and information about signage such as lamps on the ground that guide the pilot to and from the gate.
By combining this data, situations at the airport can be analyzed in real-time and afterwards. For example, why did a certain plane take so long to get to the gate? This can be explained by insight into meteorological data about a possible downpour. The Air Traffic Management software helps airports to extract the right information from all data and data flows on the ground.
Engineering expertise
Engineero was involved as a remote team for this technical issue. At our own location, we are working on the further development of the Air Traffic Management product, the required applications and a dashboard that makes the data visible and visual to users. For example, consider the average taxi times of an aircraft, real-time data about which aircraft is where at the airport and current weather information. To be able to automatically retrieve data for reports from the database, we have added a REST API where the router written in PHP gives access to this data. Furthermore, optimizations have been made in the C++ and Java code that process messages from sensors from the Message Queue. This gives users the opportunity to analyze the daily situations at the airport even better via the associated dashboard.
“This project is unique because we have been able to translate the customer's issue into a valuable technical solution. By means of sprints we have been able to work increasingly concretely from a vague idea towards an end goal. This is a technical issue that has challenged us to work together as a remote team and take the software to the next level.” - Remco
Engineering projects
Our engineers work on technical issues and challenges in various markets. Each market requires a different expertise. Our technical specialists therefore use their knowledge and skills to provide challenging issues with the right answers. In order to find solutions together with our customers that make people's lives easier.
