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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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