Airport Smart Display Data Federation for Consistent Flight Information
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing airport digital signage systems are fragmented, leading to inconsistent data, high costs, unreliable uptime, security risks, and inefficient emergency response due to lack of integration and unified data dissemination across multiple vendor systems.
Innovation Solution
A smart display system that integrates multiple display screens with a centralized data management platform, utilizing AWS infrastructure for high availability and fault tolerance, enabling unified data distribution and emergency response across all screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor systems are used for digital signage, then system functionality is provided, but data consistency deteriorates due to each system feeding off different data feeds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple disparate vendor systems into a single unified digital signage platform. The system consolidates data from multiple sources (airline feeds, airport systems, third-party vendors) through a centralized data management layer that normalizes and standardizes information, ensuring consistent data presentation across all displays while maintaining the functionality of multiple system components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary components including a centralized database, data normalization layer, and API gateway that mediate between multiple data sources and display systems. These intermediaries standardize data formats, resolve conflicts between different data feeds, and ensure consistent information delivery across the entire airport signage network.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate PC-based client-server systems are deployed for each sign type, then specific functionality is achieved, but device complexity increases with completely different combinations of displays, hardware, software, networking, and operating systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal digital signage platform that can display multiple types of content (flight information, advertisements, wayfinding, emergency alerts) across different display types (LED walls, LCD screens, monitors) using a single integrated software architecture. This multi-functional system replaces the need for separate PC-based client-server systems for each sign type while maintaining all required functionalities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the system into modular components including a centralized management server, distributed display controllers, content delivery network, and various display devices. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently while communicating through standardized protocols, reducing overall system complexity compared to monolithic PC-based systems.
3Ease of operation
If end point devices are daisy chained together, then media playback is enabled, but reliability deteriorates due to single points of failure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized server and network infrastructure as intermediaries between content sources and display devices. Instead of direct daisy-chained connections, the system uses a robust networked architecture with redundant servers, load balancers, and content delivery mechanisms that eliminate single points of failure while enabling seamless media playback across all displays.
4Device complexity
If tight coupling between backend systems and front-end display systems is maintained, then integration is simplified, but adaptability deteriorates because any upgrade requires an overhaul of both systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the system into clearly defined independent layers: a backend content management system, a centralized data management layer, an API communication layer, and front-end display systems. This segmentation allows each layer to be upgraded or modified independently through standardized APIs, maintaining integration simplicity while enabling flexible future upgrades without overhauling the entire system.
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AI summary
A smart display system for displaying content on multiple display screens. Execution of the computer program instructions by one or more processor implements modules, servers, databases, components, and services, in which a (MUFID) Services module is: operatively associated with a smart display services module; operatively associated with a Smart Data Entry module; and operatively associated with a smart display frontend module. An OAG provides realtime flight data. An Information Integrator component provides smart display MUFID services for fetching the flight data from the OAG and storing the flight data into a My SQL database. An Open Integrator Hub component provides smart display services, which contain business logic to manage flight content and reads the flight data from the My SQL database and provides realtime changes to a Smart Display Admin App. The one or more processor controls the multiple display screens to display content.