Aviation Equipment Maintenance Safety Management Based on the Technology
of IOT
Xiao-kun Wang1,2, Yong-yu Liu2, Zhe-yu Li2, Ming-feng Li2, Shu-li Zhang3
1 School of Optical and Electronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, P.R.China
2 Aviation University of Air Force, Changchun, P.R.China
3 Redstone Forestry Branch of Jilin Forest Industry Co., Ltd., P.R.China
(Wangxiaokun_yanyan@163.com)
A. An Internet of Things and its key technologies
Abstract - The article researches and analyses the
Internet of Things and aviation equipment maintenance
security management. It provides specific measures for
aviation equipment maintenance security management on
application of the Internet of Things technology. This article
has an important significance upon accelerating up the
process of information of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management and enhancing the
management efficiency of it.
Keywords - Internet of Things Technology, IT, aviation
equipment, maintenance safety, safety management
I. INTRODUCTION
New information warfare style and substantial increase
of the degree of equipment of the information put forward
urgent requirements of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management enter a new stage of
development ——the aviation equipment maintenance
safety information management stage. [1]Internet of
Things technology as a combination of sensor technology,
communications technology and computer technology is
one of the most important information technology of the
21st century. Internet of Things technology is considered
to be the third information technology and information
revolution after the computer development and Internet
universal application, which has important applications in
the military. This paper will be based on Internet of things
military applications and attempt introduction of Internet
of Things technology into aviation equipment
maintenance and support and safety management system,
in order to effectively enhance aviation equipment
maintenance safety management performance.
II. OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNET of THINGS
TECHNOLOGY and AVIATION EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Concepts and advanced information technology of the
Internet of Things, has been quickly used to perception
and control a variety of combat supplies in the field of
military logistical support in developed countries to meet
the requirements of modern warfare on logistical
precision protection.
There is no uniform standard definition on the Internet
of Things currently. General, the Internet of Things is
look like a huge network combining the various
information sensing devices and the Internet. Specifically,
the Internet of Things is seen as a network, which can
intelligent identify, locate, track, monitor and manage any
items connected to the Internet, and exchange information
and communicate according to the agreed protocol
through radio frequency identification (RFID), infrared
sensors, global positioning systems, laser scanners, and
other information sensing device. The Internet of Things
has the characteristics of the Internet, but more finer,
stronger and more comprehensive than the Internet in
functionality according to the definition of Internet of
Things. Sensor technology, communication technology
and computer technology as the three foundation of
modern information technology complete the information
collection, transmission and processing respectively. The
Internet of things combined the three techniques together
to achieve real unity of the information collection,
transmission and processing. Therefore, the Internet of
Things is considered one of the most important
technology of the 21st century, it would have a profound
impact on the future humanity lifestyle.
A lot of technology involved in the Internet of Things,
including perception technology,
communication
technology, network technology, found with search
engines technology, data processing technology, network
management technology, etc. The RFID technology,
communication technology and network convergence
technologies, sensor technology and intelligent
information processing technology are recognized as the
four key technologies of the Internet of Things, in which,
the RFID technology is used for object identification, the
sensor technology is responsible for perception of the
object dynamic information, the communication
technology and network convergence technologies is used
for information transmission, the intelligent information
processing technology is for information processing. [2]
B. Aviation equipment maintenance safety management
With the rapid development of science and
technology and military aircraft widely used in the
military area, aviation equipment is increasingly
sophisticated and complex, becoming increasingly
dependent on maintenance. Aviation equipment
maintenance capacity has become an important part of the
Air Force combat effectiveness of troops. Aviation
equipment maintenance as the primary task of aviation
equipment operations and training is to quickly maintain
and restore the good and available state of aviation
equipment in accordance with the requirements, content
and procedures at any time under any circumstances, in
order to meet the military operations and training needs.
Aviation equipment maintenance safety management
is the management activities conducted by the aviation
maintenance system in order to ensure the flight safety
and aviation maintenance operations safety. [3]Aviation
equipment maintenance safety management is one of the
main content of the aviation equipment maintenance
management, which has great significance in ensuring the
combat training tasks carry out smoothly. From a
functional point of view, the main content of the Air
Force
aviation
equipment
maintenance
safety
management includes nine aspects such as the planning of
safety work, the processing of quality and safety
information, safety supervision and inspection, air and
ground accidents (incidents) investigation, security
situation monitoring, accident prevention macro decisionmaking, security education and training, safety legislation
and safety research. [4]
III. The NEEDS ANALYSIS of USING INTERNET of
THINGS TECHNOLOGY for AVIATION EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE SAFETY MANAGEMENT
At present, our military aviation maintenance safety
management plays an active role in improving the level of
aviation maintenance management and preventing
accidents and incidents due to poor management.
However, with a large number of new aviation equipment
put into use ， the existing maintenance system,
maintenance programs and support methods need to be
optimized continuously by using scientific methods and
means. The level of maintenance and management
information also needs to be greatly improved.[5]
Therefore, it is of great significance to use advanced
Internet of Things technology for aviation equipment
maintenance safety management, hence to speed up the
information process of aviation equipment maintenance
safety management and to optimize aviation equipment
maintenance safety management comprehensive benefits.
A. The visualization needs of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management
There are many uncertain factors affecting the aviation
equipment maintenance, such as battlefield environment,
equipment condition, maintenance resources, technical
level of personnel, etc. and these factors are diverse and
complex. The aviation equipment maintenance safety
management needs to effectively manage and monitor
every aspects and each elements of aviation combat
equipment and aviation equipment support throughout the
entire life-cycle process from test, production, use,
maintenance until to final abandonment that aviation
safety-related, thus to arrange maintenance equipment and
personnel timely and reasonable according to
maintenance processes and maintenance tasks and to
promote capability to dealing with emergencies. Leaders
and function departments at all levels also need to grasp
and understand all kinds of information of maintenance
safety management timely and make a whole process
control of the maintenance safety management work
processes and the quality of work.
Visualized monitoring and supervision of aviation
equipment maintenance personnel and material in
important links, nodes and parts of maintenance process
can be implemented by using Internet of Things
visualization techniques and automatic identification
technology with a combination of computer platforms,
databases, etc.
This advanced visualized dynamic
management model based on the Internet of Things
technology will greatly change the backward state of the
traditional aviation maintenance safety management
supervision, decision-making and disposal to maintenance
process. It will be conductive to improve the process of
safety management of all aviation maintenance activities
of various time, space and aspects, in order to reduce the
accidents and incidents endangering the security to a
minimum.
B. The information needs of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management
The wide range of applications of IT-oriented high-tech
in the field of aviation equipment maintenance directly
promotes the information process of aviation equipment
maintenance safety management. Increasingly, the
aviation equipment maintenance safety management
depends on information in the information age. The
information technology has become a key to improve
aviation equipment maintenance security management
capabilities and to implement aviation equipment
maintenance safety management reform under the under
the conditions of information warfare. It can achieve a
high degree of sharing and comprehensive utilization of
the limited technical resources, material resources and
battlefield
information
resources,
promote
the
modernization and fine development of the aviation
equipment maintenance safety management and improve
the comprehensive benefits of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management by means of collection,
transmission, processing and use of the aviation
equipment maintenance information related to safety and
risk control.
The Internet of Things has the characteristics of the
network, and joint property, the Internet, automated,
perception, intelligence. The information maintenance
safety management system with the functions of
intelligent decision-making, automatic monitoring, total
factor management based on the advanced Internet of
Things IT can not only provides protection of the rapid
information flow interaction for security monitoring, but
also can comprehensively reflect the matches and
combination degree of the factors such as manpower,
material, financial resources, information, technology,
management level and aviation equipment maintenance
objects. The information of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management will well meet the high
security requirements of the aviation information
equipment.
C. The needs of technology-based of the aviation
equipment maintenance safety management
The modern aviation equipment as a high technology
integration requires high maintenance technology and the
maintenance safety management of which is difficult . To
manage and monitor every aspects, each elements of
aviation combat equipment and aviation equipment
support throughout the entire life-cycle process from test,
production, use, maintenance until to final abandonment
that aviation safety-related effectively are bound to
establish aviation equipment maintenance safety
management system which is characterized by advanced
functions, fast and efficient, scientific management,
excellent performance, stable operation and is compatible
with the safety requirements of aviation equipment
maintenance. For this reason, it is necessary to adopt a
large number of high-tech to effectively ensure the
efficient operation of the safety management systems in
aviation equipment maintenance.
Internet of Things is a internet that can not only
achieve automatic and intelligent information collection,
transmission, processing and connections between objects
and objects through a variety of sensing equipment and
Internet, but also can implement anytime, anywhere
scientific management. The characteristics of the Internet
of Things determine that it can be used to secure the
scientific management of the aviation equipment
maintenance. The information and integrated logistics
management system and process monitoring system based
on the Internet of Things technology can effectively
improve the management efficiency of the aviation
equipment maintenance materials and spare parts storage
areas and greatly reduce the security risks caused by
inadequate reserves and varieties confusion of raw
materials and parts. The information aviation equipment
maintenance safety management system based on RFID
technology combined with Open GL and many other
technologies can achieve a variety of functions such as
storage of raw materials and spare parts, raw materials
and parts from top to bottom shelf, real-time stocktaking
by using both the label to record the library, raw materials
and parts information and the fixed, mobile and handheld
readers to capture and instant delivery the information
anywhere and anytime. The traceability of management
behavior and raw materials and parts information can be
achieved by means of convenient, fast and accurate
acquisition of the raw materials and parts data, which can
provide accurate dynamic information for raw materials
and spare parts management.
Internet of Things technology can be used for overall
process tracking of the aircraft throughout the life cycle,
monitoring the critical systems of aircraft, especially for
monitoring aircraft flight status, equipment working status,
aircraft parts performance. And it will be conducive to
obtain and analyze the data in the work of the equipment,
apparatus, parts and components of the aircraft during
flight, and scientifically determine the aircraft
maintenance interval. For example, the information of
basic run situation of the aircraft engine, oil performance
indicators, etc. can be obtained by using the Internet of
Things technology, then a more comprehensive condition
monitoring and fault diagnosis on the operational status of
aircraft engines can be implemented, and hence to
effectively protect the safety of the flight.[6]
III. The SPECIFIC MEASURES for AVIATION
EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE SAFETY
MANAGEMENT USING the INTERNET of THINGS
TECHNOLOGY
Aviation equipment maintenance safety management
based on the Internet of Things is to use the Internet of
Things technology for aviation equipment maintenance
safety scientific and informational management. It should
under the guidance of the concept of innovation, continue
to introduce and promote the application of advanced
technology, and take the development of the maintenance
of safety management personnel with information literacy
as the fundamental to achieve the scientific and
information aviation equipment maintenance safety
management
A.
The implementation of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management based on the Internet of
Things technology should under the guidance of the
science maintenance concept
The concept is ideas and value judgments that one held.
Every aspect of the aviation equipment maintenance
safety management are inseparable from the decisionmaking and judgment. The construction of aviation
equipment maintenance and safety management system
based on the Internet of Things technology itself is a
innovation of the safety management concept. The
Internet of Things technology will greatly expand the
time, airspace and frequency domain of the safety
management, and makes the battlefield awareness more
accurate, the weapons and equipment more intelligent, the
logistical support more sensitive. The Internet of Things
will trigger a restart of revolution in military affairs and
significant changes in army building and combat. [7]It will
also trigger the new changes of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management.
The new concepts as a strong impetus to the
development of aviation equipment maintenance such as
speed management, total productive maintenance,
integration of continuous maintenance, total quality
maintenance and green maintenance, etc. are constantly
emerging, which provide a theoretical draw for the
establishment of aviation equipment maintenance safety
management system based on Internet of Things
technology. [8] The implementation of the aviation
equipment maintenance safety management based on the
Internet of Things technology should from the actual
needs of the aviation equipment maintenance safety
management, based on the advanced IT and innovative
management ideas, and to continuously guide scientific
development of the aviation equipment maintenance
safety management
B. The implementation of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management based on the Internet of
Things technology should take the advanced technologies
as the support
The information aviation equipment needs information
management. The rapid development and wide
application of the high-tech clusters with the Internet of
Things technology as the core in the military field
provides possibility and environmental conditions for the
aviation equipment maintenance safety management to
develop and innovate. In addition to the constant
inheritance and innovation to the existing experience,
methods and means, the aviation equipment maintenance
safety management should not only widely learn, research
and take the foreign military advanced management
methods as reference, but also continue to introduce and
promote the use of the advanced technology to adapt to
the requirements of modern information equipment
maintenance safety management.
The key technologies such as automatic identification
technology including the technology of optical memory
cards, radio frequency identification technology, smart
cards, bar codes, etc. can be used to automatically obtain
the maintenance resource data by means of identifying,
tracking and recording the data of the maintenance spare
parts and equipment, controlling the transfer of
maintenance equipment and monitoring the repair process,
equipment and personnel. The automatic identification
technology used in the field of the aviation equipment
maintenance has many advantages such as improving the
fault diagnosis, reliability and fault trend analysis,
shortening the time of recording accurate and
comprehensive maintenance data, obtaining technology
information, searching for repetitive failures and ordering
maintenance required spare parts, etc. to improve the
efficiency of maintenance work and to promote the
integration of the aviation maintenance management and
other functional management areas.
In addition, the remote maintenance security
monitoring and the remote maintenance personnel and
material support can be achieved by means of the Internet
of Things technology. The maintenance and support in
front and the rear command and control can be linked by
the way of Internet of Things technology, which will
break the traditional maintenance time and space,
compress the weapons and equipment maintenance and
support space, speed up the flow of weaponry and
equipment maintenance and support information, greatly
improve the aviation equipment maintenance efficiency,
effectively guarantee the safety of aviation equipment
maintenance.
C. The implementation of the aviation equipment
maintenance safety management based on the Internet of
Things technology should pay close attention to the
maintenance security management personnel development.
The modern aviation equipment are certain high-tech
weaponry with the characteristics of high integration
degree, multi-performance parameters for measuring and
strict control of the use and consumption.[9]With the Air
Force being equipped with modern new aviation
equipment the aviation equipment maintenance quality
and safety management will confront with more pressure
and challenges. With the enormous pressure and
challenge, the aviation equipment maintenance safety
management must have a highly qualified personnel who
are skilled and have a fine style of work to research
innovation management methods and tools.
The aviation equipment maintenance safety
management based on Internet of Things technology will
meet the trends and requirements and strives to make the
transition from a conventional experience-based
maintenance to a scientific technology-based maintenance,
the maintenance organizations form a troops intensive
type to a knowledge and technology-intensive type, the
maintenance key points form hardware-based to hardware
and software combined, the maintenance performance
from single support mode to a combination of command,
control and technology mode, the maintenance personnel
from a skills-based type to a intelligent-based type. The
talent is the fundamental of the safety management, and
the personnel development is the most urgent, important
and critical step of the aviation equipment maintenance
safety management. A group of talents are needed to
implement the aviation equipment maintenance safety
management based on the Internet of Things technology,
who grasp of advanced information technology and
management knowledge, being able to take advanced
scientific means to increase the technology content of the
maintenance security management and implement fully
the aviation equipment maintenance safety management
IV. CONCLUSION
The Internet of Things is seen as a non-proven
reserves of gold by many military experts. In fact, the
Internet of Things has so many functions such as
intelligent recognition of things function, intelligent
monitoring function, location tracking function, etc. that it
can be used in the fields of battlefield environment
monitoring, target tracking and positioning, weapons and
equipment intelligent, personnel and vehicles monitoring
and logistical support. The more advanced aviation
equipment, the higher the degree of dependence on
technology and its operational effectiveness of the play
even more depending on the effectiveness of the
maintenance and support work, the role of equipment
maintenance to protect the safety of the more significant.
[10]
Therefore, we must attach importance to the
maintenance of aviation equipment repair security system
security management issues. With the support and
attention of the national strategy for the Internet of Things
Internet of Things in China system will be established
step by step and improve the Internet of Things will be
more and better applications in every aspect of aviation
equipment maintenance safety management and each of
these elements, in order to ensure the maintenance of
security, consolidate and upgrade the combat
effectiveness of Air Force units, to ensure that the carry
out of the Air Force combat training tasks play an
important role.
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