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ITU-T Focus Group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring
Avionics and Aviation Communications Systems

9.1.3 Flight data monitoring, flight tracking and alerting solutions and services

Every airline should have a flight data monitoring (FDM) application utilized for post-flight data analysis.
Although not designed for real-time flight data monitoring, these systems may be adapted for real-time flight
data monitoring use cases. Examples of FDM software and services providers include:

• Teledyne Controls;
• Airbus;

• Sagem;
• Aerobytes;
• GE Aviation (former Austin Digital).

Airlines may utilize a cloud service for FDM hosted by another party. It is worth noting that ICAO Annex 6 does
make provision for airlines to outsource their FDM activities should they choose to do so.

There are also other flight data solutions that may be cloud based, which are used for flight tracking that
may also support real-time flight data monitoring, reporting and alerting. Examples of these systems include:

• FlightWatching;

• SITA OnAir's AIRCOM ® Flight Tracker;
• Data centres (e.g. Google, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle);
• Flight Radar 24;

• Rockwell Collins MultiLink SM.

9.2 Ground-based infrastructure

9.2.1 Introduction

The aviation industry is now focused on interoperability and seamless air traffic management practices. This
section explores some of the concepts that deliver a global approach to data management and sharing.

9.2.2 System wide information management (SWIM)

Currently, there is no efficient or effective ground-air/air-ground mechanism for data management, exchange,
and sharing of aeronautical information.

The aircraft access to SWIM (AAtS) initiative is the effort that will define how and what is necessary to connect
aircraft to SWIM infrastructure during all phases of the flight. It is important to realize that the AAtS initiative
will not implement a specific infrastructure to create the actual link to the aircraft, but it will define a set of
operational and technical requirements that will be used to drive that infrastructure. This infrastructure will
create a full data information exchange (i.e. uplink/downlink) capability.

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