Aircraft equipment management system

摘要

Method and apparatus for managing equipment on an aircraft. An apparatus comprises an interrogator, a display system, and a processor unit. The interrogator is configured to read information from a set of wireless tags associated with a set of equipment in an aircraft. The processor unit is configured to identify the set of equipment from the information read from the set of wireless tags by the interrogator. The processor unit is further configured to display a layout of an interior of the aircraft on the display system. The processor unit is further configured to display a number of graphical indicators for the set of equipment on the layout in a number of locations on the layout corresponding to a number of locations of where the set of equipment is located in the interior of the aircraft.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
an interrogator configured to read information from a set of wireless tags associated with a set of equipment in an aircraft, and further configured to receive GPS aircraft location information; a display system; a processor unit configured to adjust an interrogator radio frequency based on a received GPS aircraft location, to identify the set of equipment from the information read from the set of wireless tags by the interrogator to form identified equipment, to match locations for the set of wireless tags read to locations expected for the identified equipment and to identify locations in which the information has not been read from the set of wireless tags to identify missing equipment from the interior of the aircraft; display a layout of an interior of the aircraft on the display system; display a first number of graphical indicators for the set of equipment on the layout in a number of locations on the layout corresponding to a number of locations of where the identified equipment is located in the interior of the aircraft and a number of locations for the missing equipment in the interior of the aircraft; and a housing, the interrogator, the display system, and the processor unit associated with the housing to form an equipment scanner, the processor further configured to display a second graphical indicator that indicates a location of the equipment scanner within the interior of the aircraft.