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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