Monetise Air Traffic Data with Floral Hall:
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Frankfurt/Germany (gbip/29.08.2011) - The Message Parser Toolkit (Version "Floral Hall") enables an airport to interpret automatically operational messages like Load Message (LDM), Movement (MVT), Passenger Transfer Message (PTM) or the list of inbound transfer passengers. Instead of cooking down the appropriate figures by a black box, "Floral Hall" provides XML formated Regular Expressions. These technologies are well-known in the IT world. It is up to the airport to maintain the way of how to get the data. Airline customers and the airport can find so a mutual understanding on the information, on which billing and planning will later be relying on. The precious know-how of interpreting messages remains at the airport. Click on the above "Demo Application" button ...... to take a look on a list of few records. As we have a passion for modern music, we have chosen Liverpool (LPL) in England as an example for a reporting airport. Please note that Liverpool (LPL) is not affiliated or associated with "Floral Hall" by solterbeck.net. Also any mention of airline codes, registrations or passenger names are fictional. But in principle, these examples are representative of how the mechanism would work. The message list behind this "Demo Application" is already a result of a background worker process, which grabs the particular message objects from a specific inbox. Based on the regular expression (see our PTM example), which you can specify as interpreter code for traffic figures, the system automatically validates the messages and shows the lack of data, where a message is improper. The web interface is easy to use. Nearly on the top you can specify the filter criteria. A click on each of the column headers brings the list into another order. Click on "Details" hyperlink to open a new tab or window in your web browser to see more interpreted data from the selected message. As far you filter the list by SMI = "LDM" and Status = "Ok", then you would be able to export the selected data. In this example to a web service. If export is successful another browser window or tab is opening, where you can see the so exported data. Leave this view by closing the window or tab. In the grid pane please click on the button "Filter/Refresh Results" to update the Repeat Index column values. This column shows per each flight data set the numbers successful attempts of its uploading to AODB. In our case the system does only export LDM data to an imaginary AODB of our fictional reporting airport. Keep data collection simple and smartOur experiences shows that most of the airport operational systems are strong enough to validate and reconcile data from a third party system with their own flight event data. The "only" lack is to get operational airline sources in. Here "Floral Hall" comes into the game. This tool is smart enough to link interpreted data from the "other side" into the airport operational system. The customizing of "Floral Hall's" interpreting rules is quite easy and transparent. It requires some basic understanding of programming but as a benefit this knowledge base remains at the airport. Minimum System Requirements
Floral Hall is fast: Even with these minimum system parameters 1.5 Million recordsets will be listed, paged, sorted or filtered within few seconds. |
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