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  • Welcome
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  • Associates
  • AIRPORTECH
  • Best Practices
  • Committees
    • DT2 + BI + AI
    • Automation & Robotics
    • Hyper-Personalization
    • Electrification
    • Data Centers & Comm
    • Cybersecurity
  • News Blog
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SMART AIRPORT TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATION

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SMART AIRPORT TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATION

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Welcome to the Newest Airports Association

The SMart AiRport Technologies (SMART) Association has been formed to focus on TECHNOLOGY  best practices for airport owners, airlines, and their service providers.  This newest addition to our airport industry, offers free membership to airport owners and government staff, in order to facilitate our non-profit association's mission.

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Current SMART Focus Areas

DT2 + BI + AI

Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse

Automation & Robotics

This SMART Best Practices Committee is focused on Digital Transformation & Digital Twins (DT2), enabling Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI); for optimizing airport passenger experience, operational capacity, health, safety, security, and sustainability.  DT2+BI+AI are key enablers to airport automation and robotics and hyper-personalization.

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Automation & Robotics

Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse

Automation & Robotics

This SMART Best Practices Committee is focused on seamless and secure processing of airport passengers, baggage, cargo, aircraft, and ground transportation via automation and robotics (including autonomous vehicles and drones).  Leveraging automation and robotics for seamless backend Operations and Maintenance (O&M) is also addressed; such as security screening, safety inspections, work orders, etc.

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Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse

Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse

Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse

This SMART Best Practices Committee is focused on providing information more effectively to individual airport passengers, meeter-greeters, and support staff; personalized to their respective needs/preferences, via advanced technology mechanisms such as:  metaverse, smart phones, tablets, watches, glasses, goggles, and various airport electronic visual information display systems with immersive visualization.

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Electrification

Data Centers & Communications Infrastructure

Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse

This SMART Best Practices Committee is focused on decarbonization technologies via various electrification means such as solar and hydrogen.  This area of focus includes energy storage, micro grids, chargers, and green facilities.  Moreover, support infrastructure for electric aircraft, air-taxis, ground vehicles, and Ground Support Equipment (GSE) is also addressed.

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Data Centers & Communications Infrastructure

Data Centers & Communications Infrastructure

Data Centers & Communications Infrastructure

This SMART Best Practices Committee is focused on technology advances and corresponding bandwidth and speed requirements to be supported by airport data centers, cloud services, and communications infrastructure; including continued growth of IoT devices and sensors such as CCTV cameras and LiDAR across the terminal complex, as well as interfacing with upcoming robotic platforms and autonomous vehicles.  This committee is also focused on leveraging an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) information broker for data sharing/exchange.

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Cybersecurity

Data Centers & Communications Infrastructure

Data Centers & Communications Infrastructure

This SMART Best Practices Committee is focused on improving cybersecurity across our increasingly complex technology environment involving AI, autonomous vehicles and robotics, and multiplying systems integrations via APIs adding potential "backdoor" cyber threats through interconnected systems.

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Benefits

Offering Airport Technology Best Practice Education Services:

The SMART Association includes an Advisory Committee, composed of airport-owner technology/innovation directors, who set the priorities for SMART-led research and development of best practices.  The SMART Advisory Committee meets on a quarterly basis to review progress and adjust priorities for SMART Best Practice Committees.


The SMART Best Practice Committees research case-studies and develop educational technical content for guideline specification sheets, webinars, symposiums, training, etc.  Each SMART Best Practice Committee is led by one of SMART's Board Members, serving as the Committee’s chairperson; facilitating the contributions of interested SMART members from airports, airlines, government (e.g., FAA, TSA, CBP, ACRP), academia, and solution providing companies.  


SMART Best Practice Committee meetings are web-hosted and in-person at SMART symposiums.  Committee meetings take place monthly, or as often as needed.  These Committees may form SMART Working Groups, to address subsets of the committee's scope.  Please checkout our SMART Best Practice Committees listed above and their respective web pages.

SMART Best Practice Guideline Specification Sheets (a.k.a., SMART Sheets), are developed to specify/document best practices for various aspects of airport technology applications.  


SMART Sheets may be used by airport owners to develop more effective technology procurement specifications, as well as by technology solution providers to better develop/implement solutions that meet airport business needs.  


SMART Sheets are short (i.e., 1-2 page), concise, stand-alone, modular documents; avoiding the cumbersome nature of large standards/guidelines addressing a large scope.  The short nature of SMART Sheets facilitate their development, rollout, and adoption; providing airport owners and solution providers timely guidance as technology rapidly evolves.


SMART Sheets are developed by the SMART Best Practice Committees and submitted to SMART’s Board of Directors for review and approval.  SMART Sheets may be revised/updated as needed, based on industry feedback and technology evolution.  

SMART prepares and publishes articles on select airport use-cases of technologies improving their capacity, safety, and customer level of service.  These SMART Best Practice Use-Case Articles are developed to educate airports on examples of proven solutions to be replicated.


These articles are prepared by SMART Best Practice Committees, and reviewed and approved by the SMART CEO and corresponding airport showcased, and the corresponding technology solution provider.  These articles are distributed freely via SMART’s website and LinkedIn site.

SMART Best Practice Webinars are offered on an ongoing basis to share newly developed best practices with airport owners and their solution providers, contributing to the mission of SMART helping airports improve various technology applications.  


Webinars include introduction of newly developed best practices, documented as SMART sheets by SMART Best Practice Committees; introduction of new state-of-the-art technology offerings; review of airport use-case studies and lessons learned from a technology application; and review of academia research theses for airport technology applications.


SMART Best Practice Webinars are hosted via Zoom and offered free of charge to SMART members.  Presenting a SMART webinar by a SMART professional member involves a fee to the presenter.  SMART airports, government, academia, and sponsoring associates, are able to present webinars for free.  Webinars are recorded and distributed to SMART members.  SMART webinars are reviewed and approved for quality assurance, by SMART’s CEO, prior to webinar delivery.

The SMART blog provides a mechanism to our members for industry technology news and answers to question on best practices.  Our blog can be accessed from this website's menu.

The SMART Use Cases Journal is published once per year to showcase a collection of airport industry leading technology applications from around the globe.  The purpose for the Journal is to highlight successful examples from across the industry, for airports to follow and leverage to improve their respective enterprises.  


The journal is published in January to launch the new year and in time for SMART's February annual AIRPORTECH Symposium.  The Journal is published electronically and limited hardcopy prints.  The Journal is distributed freely to SMART members.  Hardcopies may be distributed at the annual SMART Symposium. 

SMART hosts its primary annual educational symposium -- AIRPORTECH --during the first week of February, showcasing state-of-the-art technology solutions for airports, airport proven use-cases with lessons learned, and best practices published by SMART’s committees.  


AIRPORTECH includes an awards banquet recognizing select airports with industry leading examples of technology applications.  


Moreover, AIRPORTECH hosts annual face-to-face SMART Committee meetings, including a special meeting between the SMART Board of Directors and its Advisory Committee, consisting of airport technology innovation directors, providing input on needed areas of technology best practice research and development.

In order to assist airports achieve successful and sustainable technology implementations, SMART offers airport owners, airlines, government agencies, and technology solution providers with tailored best practice training workshops, and best practice guidance and certification oversight for projects and programs.

AIRPORTECH International Symposium

Don't Miss this Airport Technology Innovation Experience

At the Orlando International Airport Hyatt Regency Hotel

February 4-7

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Key Symposium Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Business Intelligence (BI)
  • Digital Transformation & Digital Twins (DT2)
  • Video/LiDAR Analytics and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Automation via Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGV)s and Robots
  • Seamless/Frictionless Passenger Processing
  • Hyper-Personalization & Metaverse
  • Electrification
  • Cybersecurity
  • and more…

Detailed Agenda

Thank You to Our Supportive Associate Members

EPIC Engineering & Consulting

EPIC Engineering & Consulting

EPIC Engineering & Consulting

EPIC provides airport owners with digital transformation solutions for business process improvements; spanning planning & environmental, engineering & construction, operations & maintenance, and leasing & administration.  EPIC's Simplify i3 cloud-based digital transformation platform, integrates best of breed technologies from Microsoft, Google, Esri, Apple, Android, and more.  Most recently, EPIC has applied Simplify i3 to enable airports effective Safety Management System (SMS) compliance.

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x-Spatial

EPIC Engineering & Consulting

EPIC Engineering & Consulting

x-Spatial provides airport owners with an Airport Enterprise Geospatial Information System (AEGIS), serving as the "common denominator", providing the spatial skeleton supporting the correlation of various airport data into Digital Twins.

AEGIS includes an airport specific spatial Database Management System (DBMS), integrating both Autodesk and Esri data structures and functionality.  The AEGIS DBMS serves as a single source of truth for the airport's spatial data; consolidating CAD & GIS basemaps and integrating BIM and LiDAR.

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PDBM

IntellAct

IntellAct

PDBM provides airport owners and airport Architectural Engineering Construction (AEC) providers with Building Information Modeling (BIM) best practice standards, processes, procedures, and tools.

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IntellAct

IntellAct

IntellAct

IntellAct provides airport owners, airlines and aviation service providers with AI-enabled video analytics that meticulously monitor all aircraft turnaround activities in real-time, delivering valuable insights that enhance  operational efficiency.

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Benefits of Becoming a SMART Associate Member

  1. Webinars Attendance
  2. Webinar Presentations
  3. Discounted Symposium Registrations
  4. Discounted Symposium Exhibition
  5. Advisory Committee Meetings Participation with Airport-Owner Technology Innovation Directors
  6. Best Practice Committee Participation
  7. Best Practice Specifications
  8. Showcased in Best Practice Articles and Annual Journal
  9. Showcased on this SMART Association Website
  10. Use of SMART Association's CRM Database

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