Centralized Airport Display System for Unified Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern airports lack a unified interface to centrally manage and distribute real-time data feeds from multiple sources, such as flight information, baggage, public safety, and vendor data, to user devices, limiting the ability to provide personalized and timely information to passengers and restricting the flexibility of display content.
Innovation Solution
A centralized travel operations display system that collects real-time data feeds, decouples, codes, and validates them, creating filtered special-purpose data feeds for distribution to various displays and user devices, including smartphones, enabling personalized information and dynamic content updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple separate systems are used for displaying different types of information, then each system can be optimized for its specific function, but the system complexity increases and centralized management becomes impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate data feed systems (flight information, baggage, public safety, vendor data, etc.) into a single centralized distribution system. The centralized server receives data feeds from multiple sources and distributes them to various display locations, eliminating the need for separate independent systems while maintaining all required functionalities.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized distribution system serves multiple functions: it displays flight information, baggage status, public safety alerts, vendor advertising, and other data types through a single unified platform. The system can dynamically assign different data feeds to different displays based on location and user needs, providing universal service across the airport environment.
2Reliability
If each system generates and stores its own data independently, then data integrity for each specific function is maintained, but the ability to centrally manage and redistribute content is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server acts as an intermediary between data source systems and display systems. It receives data feeds from multiple sources, processes and validates the data, then distributes it to appropriate displays. This intermediary role maintains data integrity from original sources while enabling centralized control over content distribution and display assignment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the data distribution function from the data source and display functions. The centralized server handles data collection, processing, and distribution, while individual displays focus on presenting information. This segmentation allows centralized management of content while maintaining specialized functionality at each stage.
3Reliability
If displays are dedicated to specific data feeds, then display reliability for intended purpose is ensured, but flexibility to change content dynamically is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic content assignment where displays can be reconfigured in real-time based on user needs and operational requirements. The centralized server can assign different data feeds to different displays dynamically, allowing a display originally intended for flight information to show public safety alerts or vendor advertising when appropriate, while maintaining reliable data delivery through the established distribution infrastructure.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention comprises a federated system having a centralized data collection node that receives real-time data feeds from multiple airport systems, a data decoupling module for scrubbing received data, coding scrubbed data, and validating coded output data, and a central control node for monitoring and controlling the system. The invention also includes graphical user interfaces and methods for displaying such information at a central node, or NOC.r The invention can also detect output devices and create specific special purpose feeds for each data destination or remote display, as well as systems that allow an airline to remotely access and update the status and settings of a remote travel operations display system via the Internet.