Connected Aircraft 1

Flight (avionics) and telemetry

(sensor) data is collected by AWS
Onboard flight data collection for fleet-wide analytics and predictive IoT Greengrass running on the
flight-data acquisition unit on
maintenance board.

Real-time events are anonymized

Third-Party 2 and sent to Flight Operations on
Subscribers the ground. Flight data is offloaded
to Amazon S3 with aircraft at the
gate and analyzed by Flight
AWS Cloud Train Predictive Models Operations for fuel burn
Aircraft 5 (Amazon SageMaker) 7 optimization, fault analysis and
Data Exchange other use cases.
Sensors (FreeRTOS)

ML Models Anonymize Data 4 Engine flight data is processed and

(AWS Glue, 3 analyzed with AWS Glue and
(Amazon S3)
AWS Lambda) Amazon EMR for engine health
Avionics Systems

Real-time events maintenance.

ARINC 429/717 Message Broker Staged Flight Data
(AWS IoT Core) (Amazon S3) Anonymized flight and fault data is
Anonymize Data 4 aggregated and stored in a
Local Gateway (AWS Lambda)
(AWS IoT 2 3 Business Logic
Amazon S3 data lake.
Greengrass) Processed (AWS Lambda)
Engine Flight Data Flight Data Models trained from aggregated
1 Raw Engine Flight (Amazon S3)
5 flight and fault data are deployed
Data (Amazon S3)
Flight Processing (AWS Lambda, to AWS IoT Greengrass on the
Fleet-wide aircraft for predictive maintenance
Flight Data AWS Glue, Amazon EMR)
Analytics
(FOQA) Raw Flight Data Fault Notifications (Amazon Amazon API
App developers build new digital
(Amazon S3) (Amazon SNS) QuickSight) Gateway 6
solutions for the connected
6 ecosystem.

Anonymized data is offered to

7 third-party developers on a
subscription basis with AWS Data
Flight Ops Engine Health App Developers/ Exchange.
Management Consumers

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