The start of the development of the software and hardware complex "Digital Twin of Airports" and its further implementation at the Kaluga International Airport named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky became known after a meeting with the participation of the General Director of the Kaluga Research Institute of Telemechanical Devices "Ruselectronics" Alexander Alekseev and the Governor of the Kaluga Region Vladislav Shapsha.
The "Digital Twin of Airports" is being created on the basis of the integrated ground infrastructure monitoring system "Zenit", developed by specialists from KNIITMU. "Zenit" is already successfully operating at the Kaluga airport. It collects telemetry, audio and video information - for example, data on the location of special equipment, its condition, the number of passengers in the cabin, the amount of baggage on the tractor or materials in its body. All this up-to-date information is transmitted to the server, where it is processed and automatically uploaded to an interactive map.
During operation at the Kaluga airport, the Zenit system showed good results. Now we are moving on to the next step - developing a "digital twin" of this airport based on real-time Zenit data. In the future, the system can be replicated at other operating civil aviation airports - both in Russia and abroad.
The complex will allow optimally calculating the load on the airport infrastructure, making the work of personnel more efficient, predicting passenger traffic, and modeling business processes in both the long and short term. Another important function of the virtual twin of the air harbor is to increase the overall level of security at the facility by analyzing and predicting threats. The timing of the approximate implementation of the first "Digital Twin of Airports" has not yet been announced.
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