Rolls-Royce selects SITAONAIR's e-Aircraft DataHub

Posted on 15 January, 2019 by Advance 

Rolls-Royce is the launch customer for SITAONAIR’s e-Aircraft DataHub – a new, state-of-the-art neutral aircraft data management service designed to bring significant, distinct benefits to airlines and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Today, harnessing aviation data represents the key to unlocking the untapped potential of modern aircraft. It is crucial to everything from minimizing airline maintenance costs and maximising aircraft availability, to empowering manufacturers and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) teams to be at their most effective. However, several hurdles have hampered progress – including airlines’ reluctance to permit OEMs access to sensitive data, and the complexity of achieving timely and tailored secure data transfer and distribution to relevant parties.

SITAONAIR’s e-Aircraft DataHub overcomes these hurdles by acting as a secure, cloud-based aircraft data-brokering service, enabling airlines to share selected aircraft data from diverse fleets, aircraft models and formats with their chosen OEM, at no cost to the airline.

For SITAONAIR’s airline partners, e-Aircraft DataHub represents a secure no-cost platform that keeps airlines fully in control of the data they share with OEMs at the point of distribution. It also involves minimal effort from an airline’s IT operation to implement, removing the need to establish a new IT project for every OEM it chooses to share data with.

For OEMs, the solution provides a transformative global data repository, trusted by airlines to provide the deep and timely insights required to deliver an improved service to their global airline customers. The platform is global, and fully scalable, enabling the industry to handle hundreds of airlines’ data from multiple OEMs, thousands of aircraft, and petabytes of aircraft data, in a secure, controlled manner.

The Rolls-Royce and SITAONAIR deal follows the partners’ successful trial of the service, conducted as part of Rolls-Royce’s pioneering ‘IntelligentEngine vision’ – based on a belief that the world of products and services are increasingly connected, contextually aware and comprehending, helping to deliver greater reliability and efficiency.

The e-Aircraft DataHub agreement is the latest step in SITAONAIR’s aircraft data management initiative for Rolls-Royce, which began with Rolls-Royce enlisting SITAONAIR’s AIRCOM FlightMessenger to collate and distribute Engine Health Monitoring data.