We’ve all heard the statistic, or at least one similar to it: if airlines achieved just a 1% decrease in fuel consumption, then the money saved could end up in the millions. It’s no surprise, therefore, that aviation is frequently cited as one of the industries with the most potential to be transformed by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Serdar Gürbüz is Digital Innovation Manager at Turkish Airlines, having started working there in 2010 with a stint at national telco Turkcell in between. The airline’s digital innovation department was launched last year, and Gürbüz is chiefly responsible for exploring new initiatives in five emerging technology areas; the IoT of course, but also augmented and virtual reality, machine learning and artificial intelligence, big data, and robotics.