Flight/Baggage/Gate Information Displays (FIDS/BIDS/GIDS)

Flight/Baggage/Gate Information Displays (FIDS/BIDS/GIDS) are typically off-the-shelf products supplied by different vendors in the aviation industry. In certain cases they require a dedicated CPU per display and are hardware dependent. These systems require on-going annual incensing fees.

I decided to re-architect them and developed a web-based system. By being web-based, these systems are hardware-independent and don’t require dedicated CPU’s; they can be displayed in any smart-TV. Parameters can be applied to URLs to control elements such as number of lines per display, airport, arrivals vs. departures, airlines, etc.

A central portal allows the management of these displays to easily change columns to display, changing of colors, uploading airlines logos, etc. Since we developed these system we had significant savings by eliminating on-going licensing fees.