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Airports traffic must have a high-performance radio-navigation and light beacon system to ensure safe aircraft operation in low visibility conditions, which also means lower flight times for airlines, and therefore reduced fuel consumption. In many cases the airports runway light systems have been designed and built decades ago taking into consideration the technologies available at that time. The low power wide area networks gives us other perspectives. These new technologies are unique because they make things different from the classical ones, predominant in IoT field such as short-range wireless networks, legacy wireless networks, and cellular networks, etc. They offer unique sets of features and benefits, the most important being the connectivity over an extended geographic area for devices with low power consumption and with low data flow, which does not characterize the classical wireless technologies. This paper presents novel perspective in terms of light beacons system monitoring using noninvasive methods. The data collected by the developed devices is centralized and used for real-time visualization and alerting by monitoring and intervention staff.
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This work was partial supported by the Politehnica University Timisoara research grants PCD-TC-2017.
The authors are addressing special thanks to the members of Eta-2U, Department of Innovation.
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Simo, A., Barbulescu, C., Kilyeni, S. (2021). LoRaWAN Based Airport Runway Lights Monitoring System. In: Balas, V., Jain, L., Balas, M., Shahbazova, S. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51992-6_2
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