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Complex Event Processing for Decision Support in an Airport Environment

Authors:
Gabriel Pestana
Sebastian Heuchler
Augusto Casaca
Pedro Reis
Joachim Metter

Keywords: Situation awareness; Safety and security business rules; Location based services

Abstract:
A new approach is proposed to the surveillance of Security and Safety occurrences concerning mobile objects in an airport environment, in particular to monitor aircrafts, vehicles and staff at the manoeuvring area for all weather conditions. A middleware platform receives localization information from the different mobile objects in the airport and merges that information through data fusion in the platform. The system outputs are shown in a high-resolution Graphical-User interface, providing a collaborative environment with the relevant information to the airport stakeholders. The outputs can be used by the stakeholders to take decisions on the best way to improve security and safety and also on the optimiza-tion of airport operational procedures in compliance with ex-isting business rules. In this paper, the proposed system archi-tecture follows an event-driven approach based on streams of occurrences processed in real-time. Therefore, it is suited for decision support. We will illustrate our approach by monitor-ing events occurred in an airport environment.

Pages: 246 to 260

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2013

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ISSN: 1942-2628