Airbus initiative aims at integrator role for IoT on board – Runway Girl

Airbus initiative aims at integrator role for IoT on board – Runway Girl

Airbus is positioning itself as the integrator, data organizer and service provider for the Internet of Things on board its aircraft, in order both to realize the tactical operational benefits of the growing number of sensors used, and to generate strategic intelligence on the future of cabin design, vice president cabin marketing Ingo Wuggetzer told Runway Girl Network at the APEX EXPO in Boston.

“It’s about connecting all the elements in the cabin,” Wuggetzer explained, to “collect the data, and use it for cost improvement, for operational improvement. But of course, and this is the challenge, also for revenue generation and better passenger experience. Our role in that ecosystem is then that we enable it; we provide a flexible, wireless data backbone just to provide that service, get the data together, and give it to those people who want it and who have an idea how to use it.”

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