JIM PETERS

Chief Technology Officer,

SITA

AT THE AIRPORT: THE DIGITAL TRAVELER AND

DIGITAL WORKER

WearablesHigh-Speed WIFI

And WirelessTablets

Smartphones

WEARABLE COMPUTING – GOOGLE GLASS

• Currently developing applications to read flight, passenger & bag tag

information on Google Glass

SIXTH SENSE | VIRGIN ATLANTIC TRIAL

2012 Air Transport IT Summit4

WEARABLE COMPUTING – BIOMETRIC

AUTHENTICATION

• The Nymi – based on your Cardiac rhythm signature

PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICES

Apple iBeacons

Qualcomm

PayPal Beacon

SticknFind

An app is required

Beacons are opt-in. Users must have an app installed and bluetooth enabled.

An app must know to search for its beacons. Not any beacons but beacons that are known to it.

The physical world becomes digital

COMMON USE. REGISTER AIRPORT BEACONS AT…

www.developer.aero/beaconregistry

Reduce cost & complexity of deployment

Introduce standard beacon types and data definition

to encourage reuse

Provide a simple to use API to discover beacons and

get meta-data about beacons

Provide tools to airport operators and beacon owners

to visualize and track beacons

Be vendor agnostic; the service should work with beacons

from any vendor

IN COLLABORATION WITH ACI & IATA: SITA AIMS TO PROMOTE BEACON USE IN THE INDUSTRY

Technology research and incubation for the

Air Transport Industry

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Source: presentation of Jim Peters, SITA at the 2014 SITA

Air Transport IT Summit, Brussels.

2014 Air Transport IT Summit