Huawei Showcases Latest ICT Solutions with Partners to Power Digital Aviation at Dubai Airport Show
[Dubai, UAE, May 15, 2017] At Dubai Airport Show 2017, Huawei is showcased its full suite of airport-oriented ICT capabilities for the first time under the theme "Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Aviation." The airport solutions on display were developed with industry-leading partners such as T-Systems, SAP, TravelSky - Civil Aviation Cares of Qingdao, YITU, Terra Vision, HYDATA, and SenseTime. Huawei’s airport ICT solutions include: visualized airport operation, panoramic video surveillance and aviation cloud, which together enhance passenger experience, enable smart operations and intelligent security protection, as well as improve the ICT infrastructure to power aviation cloud platforms.
Huawei Showcases Latest airport-oriented ICT Solutions
Airports around the world are increasing investment in digitalization and smart operations, driven by greater emphasis on travel safety, demand for advanced passenger services and mobile commerce. Smart airports also have more stringent requirements for uninterrupted, reliable and stable aviation services, which need to be supported by powerful ICT infrastructure and solutions. At the Dubai Airport Show, Huawei and its partners are showcased a range of ICT solutions tailored to the airport passenger experience, airport smart operations, and airport intelligent security protection systems.
To support airports in their efforts to offer a better passenger experience, Huawei and T-Systems jointly showed the Cloud Flight Information Display System and the indoor positioning Dynamic Milestone system for smart travel. These advanced solutions provide value-added services to passengers based on Huawei and the YITU showcase, a facial recognition system for enhanced airport security. Huawei's intelligent video surveillance cameras, video cloud storage platform and aviation cloud, along with SenseTime's facial recognition system, speed up boarding time by checking biometric tokens rather than boarding passes.
In the airport smart operations area, Huawei's eLTE wireless communication technologies enable long-distance network coverage and unified access to broadband and narrowband networks. Collaborating with the visualized command and dispatch system by TravelSky-Civil Aviation Cares of Qingdao, the solution ensures efficient utilization of airport resources and improves airport operations efficiency.
Huawei also demonstrated an overall aviation cloud solution jointly developed with industry-leading partners T-Systems, SAP, and TravelSky Cares under Huawei's "platform + ecosystem" strategy. This end-to-end solution has already been deployed at some major airports worldwide. In addition, Huawei's Cloud Campus solution delivers high-quality and ubiquitous network access in densely populated areas, reducing O&M costs and accelerating airports’ digital transformation.
Leading Industry Discussions on the Road to Digital Aviation
At the Dubai Airport Show, Huawei also held its Global Aviation Summit 2017 on May 15, 2017. The summit, called "Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Aviation", attracted customers, operators and integrators from the global aviation sector to explore the future of airport business and development, and to share success stories of innovative ICT solutions for the aviation industry.
Xilin Yuan, President of the Transportation Sector of Huawei’s Enterprise Business Group
"New ICT technologies are bringing about revolutionary changes, such as digital collaboration, cloud computing platforms, and Big Data analytics, to the aviation industry. Digitalization can dramatically optimize passengers' travel experience, increase airports' operational efficiency, and ensure public safety and operational security at airports,” said Xilin Yuan, President of the Transportation Sector in Huawei’s Enterprise Business Group. “Huawei is cooperating with its partners to provide innovative, differentiated, and advanced ICT hardware and software infrastructure for aviation customers, enabling them to embrace the benefits of digital technologies, and remain competitive and thrive in the digital era."
Carlos Y. Kaduoka, Director Strategy of the Airport Solutions Line, SITA
To drive digital transformation in the aviation industry, collaboration between hardware and software providers is necessary to develop targeted ICT solutions addressing customers’ business needs. Commenting on its partnership with Huawei, Carlos Y. Kaduoka, Director Strategy of the Airport Solutions Line, SITA, said: "The Smart Airport vision and its digital transformation strategies offer unique opportunities to the entire airport ecosystem. Working in partnership with technology companies like Huawei, we can help the industry deliver the Smart Airport vision, and achieve their strategic objectives by leveraging technology.”
By the end of 2016, Huawei had provided ICT products, solutions, and services for more than 40 airports, airlines, and air traffic control authorities worldwide. Customers include more than 15 airports with more than 30 million passengers annually, including and the 10 busiest airports in China by passenger traffic. As announced in October 2016, Dubai Airports is partnering with Huawei to design and build the world's first Tier III certified Modular Data Centre Complex (MDCC) at Dubai International Airport (DXB), the world's busiest international airport.
During Dubai Airport Show 2017, Huawei also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qatar-based Hamad International Airport (HIA), formalizing a strategic partnership to accelerate the airport’s digital transformation. Leveraging Huawei’s customized, cutting-edge ICT solutions, HIA aims to improve the customer experience, enhance operational security and communications, and increase operational efficiency.
Visit Huawei's booth, Stand 4140 at the Dubai Airport Show 2017 from May 15 to 17 at Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC). For more information, visithttp://e.huawei.com/topic/aviation2017/index.html.
