Aircraft Health Monitoring Systems (AHMS) uses real-time data from multiple sensors that are integrated into aircraft components/parts to increase aircraft safety and reliability. AHMS consists of hardware and software instruments, solutions, and techniques that conduct remote surveillance of aircraft to learn their present or potential serviceability.
The estimated number of flights per day in the world is 176,000. Each of these flights involves a huge amount of technology to operate and maintain its highest operating status to move millions of passengers flying to various destinations around the world.
According to the recent NASA Ames Research Center paper, “the occurrence of defects in an aircraft could affect not only the ‘health’ of that particular aircraft but also the surrounding airspace in certain cases.
The Aircraft Health Management (AHM) market is expected to hit $5.43 billion by 2023, with a projected CAGR of7.77 percent between 2018 and 2023, according to Markets and Markets Studies estimate.
Aircraft Health Monitoring Systems (AHMS) uses real-time data from multiple sensors that are integrated into aircraft components/parts to increase aircraft safety and reliability. AHMS consists of hardware and software instruments, solutions, and techniques that conduct remote surveillance of aircraft to learn their present or potential serviceability.
Aircraft health control services are a crucial component of aircraft operations (AHMS). These systems make use of sensor-captured data in real-time and transfer data to the ground station team via Wi-Fi, GSM, or SatCom to improve reliability and safety and cope with potential concerns as soon as possible.
These systems greatly decrease inspection time as they replace visual checks, X-rays, and traditional control methods with AHMS system procedures. AHMS is combined with machine learning, IoT-enabled sensor technologies, and other sophisticated data processing systems.
The aircraft health monitoring system consists primarily of two components: The Airborne health monitoring subsystem (AHMS), the Ground Health Diagnostics Subsystem (GHMS).
Various factors increase the need for aircraft industry health surveillance systems. Some of them are-
The aircraft’s health monitoring system is extremely complex, which incorporates various core technologies, e.g., fault diagnostics system, artificial intelligence, wireless sensor network, high-speed communication, etc.
The following are the few technologies involved in the aircraft health/condition monitoring system which helps in transmitting data to the ground station on aircraft failure or malfunction in real-time.
Fault diagnostics system consists of a database, an information base, a man-machine, an inference machine, etc. The database stores the configuration parameters and the condition parameter of the aircraft with health monitoring systems.
Artificial Intelligence will interpret and coordinate data from sensors and submit data in a report that can be interpreted. In real-time, Artificial Intelligence detects and updates on possible faults and arranges correct repair timelines. Artificial intelligence technology is used specifically to validate the system’s malfunction deduction process.
The nodes of these sensors combine the transducer, data processing unit, and a communication module connected via a wireless channel, creating an organized network framework. The sensor node monitors the hot, ultraviolet sonar, radar, and trembling signal of the local atmosphere with the assistance of various informative sensors.
Aircraft malfunction often has certain causes, such as abruptness, haphazardness, indecision, etc.
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