Airbus and Air France selected STid to deploy an automatic solution for tracking safety equipment inventories in aircraft cabins
Today flight crews carry out aircraft safety equipment inventories (life vests, oxygen masks, etc.) by hand before each flight. The compliance of this equipment (expiry date, etc.) is also checked manually. These tasks are long, tedious, time-consuming and require a number of personnel, which has a direct impact on the profitability of airlines
Client problem: Enable airline flight crews to quickly perform an automatic pre-takeoff inventory and compliance check of safety equipment
The challenge: Propose a mobile or built-in RFID solution that integrates a range of non-metal or metal tags that are lightweight, reliable, efficient, quick and easy for flight crews to use
Our solution: A comprehensive automated inventory tool integrating:
- A UHF mobile terminal
- A touchscreen tablet
- Range of tags and IronTags®
Each piece of safety equipment is identified with a special tag
The flight attendant simply walks along the aircraft's central aisle with a STid UHF RFID mobile reader and a tablet.
The solution provides precise mapping of the presence of equipment and their validity dates
Benefits:
- Reliable, quick and easy-to-use (Faster inventory operations)
- Detailed mapping of present or missing equipment and their validity dates
- Reduced risk of having non-compliant safety equipment aboard