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ITU-T Focus Group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring
Use cases and requirements

• Regulatory authorities shall establish the appropriate detailed definition of real-time FDM in terms of
data types and data volume (parameters and recording intervals).
• Once the required datasets are defined, then streaming technologies described in Deliverable 4 can be
selected and applied to the flight data for optimum use.
• Airlines, operators, MROs, OEMs, etc., shall continuously be involved in due course , so that they also
understand what ITU/ICAO are doing in that regard and what is coming their way.
• The list of use cases should be enhanced to meet the future requirements of stakeholders.

7 Conclusion

The deliverable of Working Group 2 describes use cases that make use of in-flight transmission of flight data.
Known data sources that currently transmit or might transmit in the near future from an aircraft have been
described. Most important is the data of the digital flight data recorder, also known as black-box. In addition, other
data, such as aircraft condition monitoring system reports, often sent via VHF datalink is of high interest. Future
systems can include video streaming for surveillance and analysis or health sensor data for health monitoring.

Twenty-eight use cases have been identified for the aviation cloud. These use cases are categorized in two
groups: real-time data streaming, and on-demand or post-flight data collection.

The real-time aspect is a new quality that has never been available for ground flight data processing. It is an
enabler for new techniques and processes in aviation. The use cases of this category contain high potential
for innovation. Real-time processing of flight data will increase flight safety, dispatch reliability, efficiency
and on-time performance. The processes, algorithms and IT-systems for real-time flight data monitoring are
currently not available and need to be developed.

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