NetForecast Expands Airport Cellular Monitoring to Autonomous Vehicles

A few excepts from a recent Runway Girl Network Article (Dec. 23, 2024)

As baggage handling increasingly benefits from automation, NetForecast has identified an opportunity to measure and assess the network performance of connected autonomous vehicles on the ramp.

But if baggage handlers don’t have good cellular service under wing, it can delay aircraft turnaround times. This applies also to autonomous cargo and baggage tractors which are increasingly being pressed into service as part of airline trials around the world.

“And so, we help with that,” said company president Rebecca Wetzel of NetForecast’s monitoring services for connected driverless vehicles. “And it was airlines who pointed us in that direction and said, ‘hey, here’s another problem we would like you to solve.’ So, we’re very agile and we can take our technology, our application, our software as a service (SaaS) and apply it in different areas to solve different performance problems that airlines have.”

Read the full article on Runway Girl Network: