Digital transformation in airports

Skymantics has worked with both the DOE Office of Science SBIR Program and the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program to support digital transformation in U.S. airport infrastructure. Airports are critical hubs in the U.S. transportation infrastructure, and manage spaces serving a myriad of stakeholders interlinked in a variety of complex ways. However, American airports are in great need for technology overhaul that enhances efficiency, security, passenger experience, and business sustainability of their assets.

Better information exchange technologies can enable improved decision-making processes and asset management in the airport space. With connected stakeholders, a common situational awareness can be built between air operators, passengers, ground handling operators, airport operation managers, security managers, advertisers, and concessions. Given all these players are connected by air schedules, passenger consumer profiles, and ground access operations, events on one stakeholder can impact operations and business value of another. An appropriate digital infrastructure and data exchange processes need to be in place to leverage the value of shared information.