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American Airlines CIO Maya Leibman says the carrier has started to deploy Boeing planes loaded with sensors capable of capturing 30 terabytes of data per flight.

The company—in the midst of merging with US Airways Group –has ordered 20 of The Boeing Co.’s 777 300-ER planes. It has received nine so far, with the rest scheduled for delivery by the end of 2016.

The technology will clear the way for new services such as preventative maintenance

“These planes are just so much more technologically advanced,” Ms. Leibman said Nov. 7 in a conversation with CIO Journal. “Just flying from here to London, they can generate something like 30 terabytes of data per flight.”

That represents a five to 10 fold increase in the volume of data generated per flight, according to Ms. Leibman. “Right now, it’s not feasible to store 30 terabytes of data on every single flight. But as the technology evolves, there will be a lot of things we can do.”

Those things include preventative maintenance, a concept that has taken hold in the some industries such as railways,as CIO Journal has reported.

In the not so distant future, airline systems will be able to detect when a component is displaying characteristics that are consistent with historic patterns of replacement, and take action between the equipment fails.

The era of sensors and Big Data is just getting underway at American. “We are just starting to think about it,” Ms. Leibman said

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/11/13/american-airlines-cio-says-sensors-are-landing-now/

Internet of things will create a wide range of opportunities and challenges for airline
Virgin Atlantic is preparing for a significant increase in data as it embraces the internet of things, with a new fleet of highly connected planes each expected to create over half a terabyte of data per flight.

Speaking to Computerworld UK at the Economist Technology Frontiers event, Virgin Atlantic IT director David Bulman said that the airline company is expecting an “explosion” of information generated from a growing number of sources, from employees and customers to cargo containers and planes.

In particular, the introduction of Boeing 787 aircraft – ordered by Virgin Atlantic for delivery in 2014 – is expected to dramatically increase the volume of data the airline will need to deal with.

“The internet of things, in a broad sense, is where we are starting to see everything from planes to cargo devices getting connected,” Bulman said. "The latest planes we are getting, the Boeing 787s, are incredibly connected. Literally every piece of that plane has an internet connection, from the engines, to the flaps, to the landing gear.

He continued: "If there is a problem with one of the engines we will know before it lands to make sure that we have the parts there. It is getting to the point where each different part of the plane is telling us what it is doing as the flight is going on.”

This level of operational insight will involve generating large amounts of data from each 787 aircraft, he explained. “We can get upwards of half a terabyte of data from a single flight from all of the different devices which are internet connected," Bulman said.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news...data-per-flight-says-virgin-atlantic-3433595/

So what sort of data is being collected…….perhaps this video may explain

please don’t watch the video if you are planning a flight soon

But for those that would like an adrenalin rush…..enjoy


Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner