ABS - Airport Business Suite
In today’s digital era, fast and effective information management has become an ever-more important competitive factor. The greatest challenge of every business lies in the ability to respond to growing requirements for operational, financial and statistical information.
Airport authorities realize that efficiency and effectiveness of all members of the airport community can be accomplished as long as the different members/departments contained within an airport work in harmony. To fulfill this need, they must link and integrate their resources, people, equipment, facilities and information.
TAV IT has recognized this need and developed the "TAV IT AIRPORT BUSINESS SUITE", (TAV IT ABS), which allows different members/departments of airport community to access, share and input the information across an airport's local or wide area network that modern airports require on a day to day basis.
One of the most important features of TAV IT ABS is that, it offers a flexible integration backbone for the airport which provides fast and easy systems integration throughout the airport subsystems, plus external peripheral systems. Another important feature is that it gives the opportunity of central management of multiple airports and terminals which resides on different cities and countries; lowering investment and operational costs, plus providing consolidated and centralized data. Additionally, TAV IT ABS’s fast, dynamic and powerful revenue generation processes and flexible ERP systems integration opportunities make it possible to convert airport business operations into a profit center easily.
In order to provide whole airport’s management and peripheral subsystems integration purposes, TAV IT ABS serves with two main elements:
• Airport Operational Database (AODB) which provides the efficiency of a central airport operational database with guaranteed consistent robust operational performance, stores, distributes, manages real time flight data, aeronautical and non-aeronautical services data, and transforms all these data to fast and accurate financial figures.
• Information Exchange (IX); the backbone of the TAV IT ABS, IX handles the integration of disparate systems by providing intelligent routing mechanisms, with high availability features, enables ABS to integrate with subsystems from all vendors.
AIRPORT OPERATIONAL DATABASE (AODB)
TAV IT Airport Operational Database is a resilient, comprehensive central repository center for airport operational data management of all airport community members. It provides the efficiency of a central airport operational database with guaranteed consistent robust operational performance, stores, distributes, manages real time flight data, aeronautical and non-aeronautical services data, and transforms all these data to fast and accurate financial figures.
TAV IT AODB is a multi-tiered application. The layers of this structure are loosely coupled and communications in between them are accomplished through well-defined messages. Interaction between the user interface and service layers that is designed by utilizing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is event-based.
TAV IT AODB user interface is designed as a RIA (Rich Internet Application) while keeping in mind the limits of existing web applications. As a result it takes advantage of cross browser and platform compatibility, besides taking the advantage of the web deployment model’s traditional benefits such as single-sign-on and secure data transfer.
TAV IT AODB is configurable depending on the operation and size of the airport. AODB is equally well suited either to fit small and medium-sized airports (from about 1 to 5 millions of passengers/year) or large airports (from 10 to 100 millions of passengers/year). According to the needs of customer, it can even be provided downsized or dedicated “cost effective” solutions can be tailored.
AODB CORE FEATURES AND BENEFITS
- Centralized management of multiple terminals and airports
- Data entered once and manipulated only by related parties or systems
- Configurable IATA and ICAO codes support
- Multi-lingual user interfaces
- Strong and easily configurable user access management
- Enhanced security via authorization and authentication mechanisms at all levels
- Real time communication between all parties
- Enable future systems to be integrated with minimum disruptions
- Very thin-client, web based UI with easy to use
- Scalable to meet future airport expansion needs
- Assures high availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week operation
- Platform and database independent
- Central Data Warehouse for all operational, financial and statistical data within the airport
- Extensive statistical and reporting capabilities
- Easily customizable, configurable and dynamic airport tariffs management, integrated to any ERP system for billing
- Provides a collaborated working environment to all parties within and external to the airport.
Seasonal Flight Management System - SFMS
SFMS is the management application of Seasonal Flights Schedules of an airport.
TAV IT AODB’s SFMS provides the following functionalities:
- Management of Seasonal Flight Schedules
- Generate Active Flight information from seasonal schedules and distribute them to related systems
- Import / Export Seasonal Flight schedules from/to various formats and files
TAV IT AODB SFMS is already integrated with a set of external systems in order to get seasonal flight schedules (or SSM messages) automatically:
- Airline Host Integration
- Ground Handler Integrations
- SSIM Integration
- Sitatex Integration
Active Flight Management System - AFMS
AFMS is the core management application for flights of an airport, providing the following functionalities:
- Fast and easy management and distribution of Active (daily) Flight information
- Import / Export Active Flight schedules from/to various formats and files
- Management of flight and aircraft movements
- Management of flight status changes
- Management of resource usage of flights and aircrafts
- One click user actions (resource allocation, data manipulation etc) on user interface
- Auto updates of flight information on screen
- User actions auditing and built–in reporting functionalities, plus advanced 3rd party reporting facilities
- Collaborative working environment
TAV IT AODB AFMS is already integrated over IX (Information Exchange) with:
- Large number of subsystems of different vendors
- Airline Hosts
- Ground Handlers
- Sitatex
Commercial Management System – CMS
CMS is the commercial management application of TAV IT ABS AODB, that is specially constructed for airports’ financial needs, processes and workflows.
TAV IT AODB CMS provides the following functionalities:
- Management of Non-Aeronautical Charges
- Automated revenue Generation of Non-Aeronautical Charges
- Automated revenue Generation of Aeronautical Charges
- Enhanced, fast and dynamic Tariff Management Operations
- Easy adaptation and configuration to local financial rules, tax regulations etc.
- Source and triggering billing processes on any ERP system, very shortened time to invoice
- Easy adaptation to local financial regulations and rules
- Rich ERP Integration options
- Oracle
- SAP
- Any Other Invoicing Solutions
- Ready to use Invoice details reports
- Ready to use periodical financial reports
- Built–in reporting functionalities, plus advanced 3rd party reporting facilities
Knowledge Base Management System – KBMS
KBMS is the knowledge base data warehouse for referential and configurations data, for all TAV IT ABS AODB modules.
KBMS is the management application of reference and configuration data in an airport such as:
- Airport, Airline Codes; IATA, ICAO
- City , Country Codes; IATA, ICAO
- Aircraft types, registrations, MTOWs
- Resource and equipment definitions within the airport; counters, aerobridges lounges, carousels, gates etc.
- Flight related definitions; flight modes, types, remarks etc.
- User authorization rules
- User authentication parameters
- Notification and alert management
- Auditing facilities
- Airport Setup data
- Media management
Some of the benefits using KBMS are:
- Centralized reference data management
- One time entry of reference data
- Single point of configuration of ABS modules
- A reference point for other systems and parties at an airport
TAV IT IX – INFORMATION EXCHANGE
In today’s airport business models, technological infrastructure, integration and coordination of countless different subsystems in the airport become more crucial than ever.
TAV IT IX (Information Exchange) is delivered to remedy these integration problems with its sophisticated capabilities, by implementing the functions of industry-wide accepted Enterprise Service Bus technologies; such as message queuing and brokering to create powerful information integration networks between diverse systems on open platforms with diverse protocols.
TAV IT IX captures operation and management information from each of the systems running in the airport and provides real-time information for the overall management of the airport. TAV IT IX provides a common platform to all the distinct systems to runs synchronized and exchange real time data.
IX is a unified information distribution and transformation system with almost no limitations. IX system is an XML based protocol interface that utilizes the information to be transferred can be either in batch or in real time mode.
IX CORE FEATURES AND BENEFITS
- Modular and loosely coupled, providing greater flexibility to the airport for future expansions
- Provides grid style processing model, allowing a cluster of worker processes to asynchronously process messages in a scalable and efficient SEDA style manner.
- Uses industry-wide accepted XML schemas for messaging
- Reduces additional development costs.
- Simultaneously disseminates relevant data to systems that need it.
- Provides correct, timely and efficient data processing
- Massive scalability, high availability and fault-tolerant
- Easy and dynamic system configuration via a web-based management tool
- Supports a large set of transport protocols; e.g. DB (JDBC), SOAP, TCP, SNMP, SMTP, UDP, HTTP…
- Platform and database independent
- Suitable for all airport sizes by utilizing different network topologies.
- Supports multi-airport and multi-terminal integration models
- Includes a built-in Life Check Monitor which can also be integrated to 3rd party Management Software tools
SYSTEMS INTEGRATED
- Active Flight Management System – AFMS
- Seasonal Flight Management System – SFMS
- Knowledge Base Management System – KBMS
- Commercial Management System – CMS
- Financial Management System - FMS (ERP)
- Flight Information Display System – FIDS
- Point of Sales – POS
- Car Park System – CPS
- Check-in Counter Self Allocation – CSA
- Explosion Detection System – EDS
- Local Departure Control System – LDCS
- Docking Guiding System – DGS
- Master Clock – MC
- Personnel Management Systems – PMS
- Resource Management System – RMS
- Air Traffic Control Systems
- Airline Host Systems
- Crisis Control Centre Applications
- Gate Operating System – GOS
- Baggage Handling System – BHS
- Common User Terminal Equipment – CUTE
- Baggage Reconciliation System – BRS
- Energy Management System – EMS
- Building Management System – BMS
- Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network - AFTN
- SITATEX and more…
ABS IX FOR MULTIPLE AIRPORTS/TERMINALS INTEGRATION
For airport authorities running multiple numbers of airports and/or terminals, TAV IT ABS IX framework can be proposed with various possible topology models, which reduce investment and operational costs, plus provides consolidated and centralized data.
And now TAV IT makes ultimate airport integration possible by enabling the management of multiple airports from a central point and investment costs are dramatically decreased both in operations and hardware. Return on Investment (ROI) duration decreases to shorter than a year. This new solution has been implemented for 7 airports; with one central main airport and 6 satellite airports connected. |
