Airlines Use RFID Technology to Manage Aircraft Emergency Equipment

However, in recent years, many airlines around the world have repeatedly caused maintenance tools to be left in the cabin due to carelessness, threatening aviation safety (FOD accidents). How to achieve digital and real-time visual management of aviation operation and maintenance MRO management, and map aircraft life cycle monitoring and preventive management through management tools; Efficiency, capital turnover, operation and maintenance costs, and avoidance of potential safety hazards have all become issues to be solved in the high-quality development of airlines.

Recently, India’s Vistara Airlines said it will deploy radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to scan and manage emergency equipment on its aircraft faster, so as to better manage it.

Vistara currently has 49 aircraft – 38 A320, 4 A321neo, 5 B737-800NG and 2 B787-9, which can be scanned by RFID readers in minutes before the flight takes off. Check, so as to accurately obtain accurate data and timely information of aircraft emergency equipment.

For example, the daily emergency equipment maintenance of a Boeing 787 passenger plane (with 288 life jackets on board) can be completed in one minute only by the ground staff walking down the aisle with a PDA. Before using RFID technology, a The inspection of the oxygen generator takes an average of 4 man-hours, but after using RFID technology, it can be easily completed within 30 seconds.