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A proactive bubble around each person, tagged asset and danger area on site.

On an airport apron or any closed site, every person on foot, every vehicle, every tagged asset and every danger area has a proactive bubble. When two bubbles touch, the driver is warned, even out of sight. A parked aircraft, a vehicle or an open pit is marked with small tags and gets its own bubble.

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Proactive bubbles

In preparation.

The situation

A tug reverses behind a parked aircraft. A worker is walking behind it.

Neither sees the other. Across the apron, a vehicle heads for the runway hold line. The oldest risk on any site is a driver who cannot see the person on foot, or the line the vehicle must not cross.

Awareness and understanding

Every phone on site knows who and what is near it.

The worker and the tug are aware of each other, even with the aircraft between them. Each has its own proactive bubble, on a phone people already carry: the worker’s, and the driver’s in the cab.

Today: a parked aircraft, a vehicle or an open pit is marked with small tags and gets its own bubble.

Prediction

It will see the tug and the worker about to meet, before the worker steps into its path.

Today: the driver is warned the moment the bubbles touch.

In development: a warning before the paths meet, not only on entry.

Warning

It tells the driver.

The driver is warned in the cab. Crews elsewhere on the apron are not disturbed.

Vision: workers on foot will be warned too.

Who is told: the driver. Nobody else.

What you get

Drivers warned about workers on foot, even out of sight, on the phones they already carry.

The pilot runs on its own, with no connection to your airport’s systems. It works alongside surface surveillance and is never a substitute for clearance.

Today: tagged assets have their own proactive bubbles.

Where it stands

  • Today

    Works now, and we can show it to you.

  • In development

    Being built, or shown so far in the lab or in field trials. Not a product yet.

  • Vision

    Where we are going. Not built yet.

  • Drivers warned about workers on foot Even out of sight, with an aircraft between them. Status: Today
  • Around a parked aircraft The aircraft carries small tags and gets its own bubble. Status: Today
  • Around a danger area A driver nearing a tagged danger area, such as an open pit, is warned. Status: Today
  • At the runway hold line At an airport, the hold line can be tagged as a danger area. A driver nearing it is warned. Status: Today
  • Rules per area and per role The site will decide who may enter each area, and who will be warned. Status: In development
  • Seeing the meeting coming It will warn before the paths meet, not only on entry. Status: In development
  • Seaports, rail, logistics and construction sites The same capability will be set up with each site, in a pilot first. Status: In development
  • Workers on foot warned too Workers on foot will be warned too. Status: Vision
  • Bubbles that switch on or move Bubbles will appear around an engine at start-up, a fuelling stand or an aircraft under tow. Status: Vision
  • A private record for each driver It will be kept on the driver’s own phone. Status: Vision

At airports, warnings to drivers about workers on foot are ready to demonstrate on an apron.

We report what failed, too.

How we label what we claim Every demonstration

Try it

A tug and a worker head towards each other behind a parked aircraft, while a vehicle nears the hold line. The scene shows what works today: the tug driver warned about the worker, and the tagged bubbles around the aircraft and the hold line.

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