Smartglasses to manage airports better

Smartglasses to manage airports better

Now, smartglasses to manage airports better on Business Standard. A graphical representation of data can help crisis handlers better manage a situation

Technology news :Technical snags and inclement weather often ruin one's flying experience but imagine a scenario where airport managers could foresee the consequences of such disruptions and plan in time before events escalate.Smartglasses, and not a crystal ball, are at your rescue.

Sporting a pair of smartglasses, staring at a blank wall and using hand gestures to superimpose data on a 3-D image of an airport could help visualise a set of chain reaction likely to be triggered in an emergency.

Such a graphical representation of data can help crisis handlers better manage a situation.

SITA Lab, the research arm of air transport IT provider SITA, has released early results of a research carried out in Finland with Helsinki Airport using Microsoft HoloLens, a pair of smartglasses, to analyse and manage airports in a mixed reality environment.

HoloLens is a self-contained holographic computer, enabling users to engage with digital content. It runs on Windows 10, and enables the blending of the physical and digital worlds in ways that were previously impossible.

During the trial in Helsinki, the airport's management software supplied to the HoloLens data such as passenger real-time location, aircraft position data, gate information, flight status information, security wait times and retail dwell times.

This information was merged with the 3-D real-time view of the airport for monitoring the entire airport.

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