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Airport Expertise Holistic Approach to IT Solutions Automation Intelligence

Presentation: May 15th 2013 Location: Saskatoon Speaker: Robert Picard

Agenda

Automation Intelligence (AI) Concept

• Responding to Needs

• Integration of Systems

• Features and Functionalities

• Myths of AI

• Challenges

Technologies and Architecture

SNC-Lavalin Inc AI

Main Services & Expertise

Open Dialogue

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AUTOMATION INTELLIGENCE

Automation Intelligence (AI) is a centralized architecture between equipment and airport IT solutions

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Responding to Airport Needs

•Centralizing building and operations management

• Interoperability by integrating independent systems

•Making pertinent data available: locally and remotely: • Reducing response time to events and emergencies

• Easing decisions (analysis of events and troubleshooting)

• Empowering people with the right information

•Data archiving and reporting across multiple systems

•Software security and users management

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Integration of Independent Systems

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• Integration Optimizes :

• Operations & Maintenance

• Performance and Reliability

• Security and Efficiency

• Integration is:

• Software & Hardware Independent

• Multi-User / Multi-Sites

• Standardized but Customizable

• Flexible, Modular and Scalable

• Centralization & Sharing

AI Concept

Integration of Independent Systems (cont’d)

•Examples of interoperability: • Viewing a camera image in the SCADA

• Automatically activate lighting upon camera alarm

•Examples of reporting across multiple systems: • Power consumption

• per loading bridge and

• per airline company with docking duration

• Investigating a sequence of events prior to an incident

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Integration of Independent Systems (cont’d)

• Appropriate Information / Appropriate Location: • AI provides users with

• Easy commands,

• Important information and

• Pertinent data

• Provides all information and controls needed:

• User Configured Actions (Groupings)

• Can be remotely accessed from the AI SCADA

•Minimal duplication philosophy: • Regrouping at the SCADA level does not mean replicating all systems

• Only pertinent information and functionalities available at the SCADA

• Pass Through Login to other systems

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Navigation

Groupings

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Integration of Independent Systems (cont’d)

•Simplifying architectures

•Optimizing network performance

•Easing maintenance

•Lower maintainability costs by reducing impacts of changes

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Main Features and Functionalities

•Graphical representation with user-friendly navigation: • Global overview of the airport

• Detailed displays of sections of the airport

• Statuses visualization and commands: • Graphical animation

• High-level commands sent :

• On-demand

• According to configured events or rules (with interoperability capacity)

• According to configured schedule

• Group commands (sending the same command to multiple equipments)

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Main Features and Functionalities (cont’d)

• Efficient alarm management and annunciation

• Remote notification of events (e-mail)

• Data archiving, reporting (alarms, events and audit trail) trends

• Diagnostics and system health monitoring

• Secured remote access (via web or remote desktop)

• Secured environment

• Client-server architecture

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Advantages of AI

• All data available and online: • Wait times, Where am I (baggage), Throughput

• HVAC loading , adjusting

• Training

• Image tagging (with incident or component)

• Auto paging, alarming, sequences (locking doors)

• Predictor tools for queues

• Energy,

• Etc.

• Secure Logins

• Scalable

• Vendor Independent

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Risk of single point of failure / risk of losing data • High availability & redundancy mechanisms

• Virtualization

• Data loss prevention mechanisms:

• Disaster recovery procedures with appropriate backups

Centralized alarms management implies too many alarms • Alarms must be properly configured for segregation

Security • Integration allows for increased security

Loss of flexibility or integration limitations • Compensated by strong, generic standards

• Increased uniformity throughout the plant

• Ease of maintenance and training

Myths of the Automation Intelligence

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Challenges of Integration

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•Obtain collaboration of airport/building systems suppliers

• Ensure airport/building systems are compatible

• Existing installations:

•Working with constraints

•Green field constructions:

• Integration team must be implicated early

TECHNOLOGIES AND ARCHITECTURES Automation Intelligence is portable

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• Allows separate identical test and production environments

• Contributes to high availability solutions

•Maintenance and support is eased

• Cost reduction over hardware

• Risk mitigation over hardware

• Recommended and proofed technology for the industry and automation applications: VMWare

Requires specific virtualization hardware

Technologies – Virtualization

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•Microsoft Remote Desktop (Terminal Server) technology

• Less maintenance and support requirements

• Cost reduction over hardware by thin client usages

• Scalability

• Risk mitigation over hardware

Technologies – Remote Desktop

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• Client-server architecture

• Redundant solution with load sharing and load balancing capability

• Scalable solution

• Compatible with Windows and Microsoft technologies

• Allows for multiple architectures according to requirements

• Controlled deployment (per object, per airport area, etc)

• Integrated development environment:

• Secured with local security or active directory

• Object-oriented programming

• Version control mechanisms

• Check-in/check-out multi-user programming

• Real-time archiving and relational databases

• High volume and high availability archiving solutions

Technologies – SCADA & Data Archiving

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•Wireless Barcode Scanning

•Mobile Applications (Tablets running SCADA Software)

• Remote Notification of Events (via e-mails or SMS)

• Secured Remote Access (VPN)

• Pass-Through Logins

• Industrial Bluetooth

Technologies – Others

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Architecture

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SNC-LAVALIN AUTOMATION GROUP

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SERVICES & EXPERTISE

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Services & Expertise

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Services & Expertise (cont’d)

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QUESTIONS / DIALOGUE

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