EFBs and Operations: How

Connectivity is Changing the Game

Moderator: Mark Holmes, Conference Chair and Editorial Director, Avionics and Via

Satellite

Speakers: Roland Brenny, Principal, Information Technology, Flight Crew, Catering

and Technical Operation Applications, Delta Airlines

Ashraf Hoseini, Manager, Mobile Solutions/EFB Admin, Flight Operations,

Scandinavian Airlines

Jon Merritt, Director, Flight Operations CNS Programs & Cockpit Technology, United

Airlines

Will Ware, Team Lead, EFB Project, Southwest Airlines

Mary McMillan, Vice President of Aviation Safety and Operational Services, Inmarsat

The Connected Ecosystem: IoT

and Managing the Data

Moderator: Brad Grady, Senior Analyst, NSR

Speakers: Joshua Kendrick, Managing Director, Flight Technical Operations,

Federal Express

Mike Moeller, Vice President of Business Development for Connectivity and TV,

Thales Avionics

Roth Eddings, Senior Management, Services, Honeywell

Blane Rockafellow, VP of Product Development, SmartSky Networks

Dan Smith, Principal Engineer - Avionics, Hawaiian Airlines

IFC TO EXTEND M2M APPLICATIONS

Eric PERAGIN

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GROUND NETWORKS

• Majority of IoT services supported by mobile networks (GPRS, 2G, 3G, 4G,

5G) or IoT dedicated networks (Sigfox, LORA, On Ramp, Weighless...)

• 10% of the globe surface covered by ground networks

• Complementary solutions to deliver global services

COMPLEMENTARY SOLUTIONS

Satellites

GEO : INMARSAT, THURAYA, etc..

MEO: Globalstar

LEO: Iridium, Orbcomm, …

Intermediate solutions

Stratosphere: • High Altitude Platform (HAP)

• 40,000 to 70,000 ft

Troposphere: • UAV, aircraft

• Up to 40,000 ft

Google: Loon

ACDC system

ACDC PRINCIPLE

Plane Y

Device1 Device 2 Device 3

Message from device

Receiver

Antenna

Collect

Geo Satellite

Device1 Device 2 Device 3

Ground

Station

Satellite

Ground

Station

IFC via Air-To-Ground

or satellite

ACDC data stream

Message from device

Collect + Backhauling

Receiver

Antenna

ACDC PRINCIPLE

EXPERIMENTATION

Goals Mesure performances of 3 different wireless devices:

AIS ship terminal: VHF band: 161.975 MHz and 162.025 MHz

Argos beacon: UHF band: 401.580 - 401.690 MHz

Sigfox IoT device: ISM band: 868.030 - 868.230 MHz

Technical means 2 Independant digitalizer and storage systems

Filters + LNA

Software Defined Radio

20 wireless test devices + operational devices

Data post processing Test and operationnal devices

Falcon 20

12

FALCON 20 CONFIGURATION

Broadband antenna: 100 - 500 MHz ISM antenna: 860 MHz

Falcon 20 cabin SDR Rack

TEST FLIGHTS

• 2 return flights Nîmes/Toulouse/La Rochelle/Brest/Lorient

• Altitude: 8000 m

• Overflight of maritime, rural and urban areas

RESULTS

Application

AIS ARGOS ARGOS IoT IoT

Situation Ship Ship beacon Bird beacon Rural outdoor Urban

deep indoor

RF power 12,5 W 2W 200 mW 25 mW 25 mW

Distance 600 km 400 km 200 km 200 km 80 km

Duration 75 min 60 min 40 min 40 min 10 min

Elevation -1,5° -0,5° 1,2° 1,2° 6°

IOT KEY ELEMENTS

• IoT : fast growing market

comparable to mobile market

TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION

ACCELERATION

CELLPHONES WILL BE A SMALL PART OF THE IOT

REVOLUTION

2015 2020

10b

1,2b

30b

6,5b

• Huge diversity of applications supported

by wide variety of wireless devices

• Most of the applications require simple

devices

Launched country France Spain

Netherlands Portugal Italy

On going country deployment

USA Italy Germany Belgium United Kingdom Australia

Luxembourg Ireland Czech Rep

Denmark Mauritius New Zealand Oman Brazil

• Large countries require big number of base stations for global services

• Difficult to deploy a full coverage network in short time

• Many applications are not real time but need long range connectivity and

autonomy devices:

• electricity, water, gaz metering

• environmental monitoring

• low criticity alarm, maintenance

Sigfox deployment map

IOT KEY ELEMENTS

AIS KEY ELEMENTS

• AIS is a VHF anticollision system to track vessels with coastal stations & satellites

• AIS system : • 2000 coastal ground stations

• 3 satellite networks (Exact Earth, Orbcomm, Spire)

• New regulations on small boats increase the potential to more than 1M vessels

worldwide

Aircraft traffic Maritime shipping routes

• Shipping and aircraft routes are

very close

• Weak percentage of coasts

covered by base stations

AIS & S-AIS

AIS KEY ELEMENTS

Ships detected by 8 satellites passes Ships detected during Nimes – Lorient flight

Ship detection comparison between aircraft and satellite

AIS KEY ELEMENTS

• 992 ships detected by aircraft

• 26 ships detected by satellites on

aircraft area

• Many high density shipping areas not

covered by coastal stations Global shipping density

Example of Mediterranean sea coverage with aircrafts

AIS KEY ELEMENTS

ARGOS KEY ELEMENTS

• Satellite system with

20.000 active beacons

• Dedicated to the study

and protection of the

environment

• Deployment based on

international cooperation

(USA, India, Europe)

• 6 instruments in orbit

• Average revisite time: 1H

Argos is operated by CLS company

Argos applications % of beacons covered

MARINE AND LAND ANIMALS TRACKING

95%

OCEANOGRAPHY 68%

TERRESTRIAL APPLICATIONS 83%

VESSELS MONITORING AND MARITIME SECURITY

92%

Continental and coastal applications : • Very good coverage with frequent flights over

USA, Europ and east of Asia

• Good coverage with regular flight (day and

night) over South and North America, Africa,

Russia

Oceanic applications : • Only few corridors covered ( North Atlantic and

Pacific, North East Indian Ocean)

Aircraft traffic

Argos beacon deployment map

ARGOS KEY ELEMENTS

ONBOARD DATA COLLECT SYSTEM

Broadband antenna

150 – 930 MHz

Dimensions: VHF antenna

• DC consumption: 20W/chanel

• Mass: 5-7 kg

VHF COM

VHF antenna

118-156 MHz

AIS + ARGOS + IoT

Diplexer Diplexer Diplexer

DME antenna

849 -1220 MHz

ATG antenna

840 - 920 MHz

ATG DME - ADSB

COMANT antenna

400 - 960 MHz

Dedicated antenna options

ARGOS + IoT

Connected: Ethernet, ARYNC Wireless: WIFI

Shared antenna options

AIS IoT IoT

IFC

IFC Interface

Multi channels receiver/demodulator

CONCLUSION

•Aircrafts allow to collect data from on ground wireless applications in areas

difficult to cover or complementary to ground or satellite networks

•IFC infrastructure enables to forward the data collected to service operators or

customers

•Data collect could contribute to improve IFC profitability

•CNES seeks partners to go further in ACDC operational implementation and

business plan consolidation

CLS and SIGFOX companies interested by ACDC

Other partnerships are welcome

Marc Leminh P: +33 (0)5 61 39 37 47 M:+33 (0)6 86 07 74 62 mleminh@cls.fr

Christophe Fourtet P: +33 (0)5 34 31 03 16 M: +33 (0)6 07 74 66 01 christophe.fourtet@sigfox.com

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Thank you for your attention