Two standard systems for the construction of smart airports, compiled by Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, have been approved by China Civil Airports Association and will be put into practice later this month, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported.
The standard systems, which provide guidance for intelligent parking bay allotment and video analysis-based flight punctuality information collection systems, are two typical examples of AI applications and big data in flight operations.
The use of AI and big data revolutionized traditional methods and allowed the Shenzhen airport to allot parking bays for 1,000 flights within a minute. It greatly improved parking bay and boarding bridge use and nearly 1 million passengers a year won’t need to use ferry buses to board planes parked farther on the tarmac.
The flight punctuality information collection system can automatically identify and collect key data from arriving and departing flights through AI technologies. The system can help airlines and the airport improve management. The punctuality of flights departing the Shenzhen airport stood above 92% in the last two years.
The release of the two standard systems not only fills in the blank in the country’s smart airport construction, but also marks the Shenzhen airport’s breakthrough from pilot to standard construction.
The two systems, a result of the airport’s three-year practice in cooperation with Huawei Technologies to build a smart airport, will remarkably improve the airport’s digital services in operation, safety, services and ICT infrastructure.
The Shenzhen airport has been selected into top 10 popular airports in China and the most beautiful airports in the world for 2022, according to a ranking of world airline companies for 2022 released Sunday in Hong Kong at the 11th World Air Stewardess Association organized by the World Air Stewardess Association and Cooperation and Development Center of World Cities.