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The Volan Positioning System (VPS) is a powerful micro-location tracking technology that provides a comprehensive suite of use cases tailored for airports. It addresses both operational efficiency and construction safety, delivering safer, more efficient airport environments.

Our Resource Tracking Use Case demonstrates how VPS improves aircraft on-time performance by enabling real-time visibility of ground resources like tugs, baggage handlers, and fuel trucks. VPS proactively prevents delays, optimizes resource allocation, enhances safety, and increases accountability.
Our Construction Barrier Use Case showcases how VPS provides a geofenced tracking for airport construction sites, providing instant alerts if workers enter restricted areas, along with precise location data and a live map view. This solution helps airports meet regulatory requirements without the high costs and inefficiencies associated with human escorts.

Resource Tracking Use Case

Our Volan Positioning System (VPS) provides cutting-edge micro-location tracking technology that delivers a transformative solution for airlines seeking to enhance on-time performance and streamline operational efficiency. Our system employs wearable devices for personnel and USB-connected trackers for ground vehicles, offering real-time, highly accurate visibility into all resources required for aircraft turnarounds—such as fuel trucks, tugs, baggage handlers, and cleaning crews. This instant, precise tracking ensures that every piece of equipment and staff is in the right place at the right time, allowing airlines to identify potential issues before they lead to costly delays.

By integrating with Airport Operational Database (AODB) systems and Resource Management Systems (RMS), Volan’s solution provides a seamless flow of data across multiple airports, enabling airlines to monitor operations remotely and make data-driven decisions to optimize resource allocation. This results in more efficient use of ground crew and equipment, reduced turnaround times, and a substantial improvement in overall operational performance.

In addition, safety is elevated with geofencing alerts that warn staff if vehicles or personnel move into restricted areas, preventing accidents and ensuring compliance with safety protocols. The system also provides a level of accountability that reduces disputes over delay causes, offering transparency across the entire turnaround process.

For airlines, the benefits extend beyond immediate efficiency gains—Volan’s solution also lowers operational costs by reducing inefficiencies, improving resource utilization, and minimizing delays that can lead to financial penalties. By empowering ground staff with enhanced visibility and control, Volan’s technology not only drives improved on-time performance but also strengthens operational resilience, allowing airlines to meet growing passenger demands with agility and precision.

Construction Barrier Use Case

Volan Position System provides virtual, geofenced barriers for airport construction sites to keep workers out of restricted areas and reduces the costs for worker escorts. Airport construction projects are never-ending, have many workers, and regulations require full-time monitoring of worker location. Volan’s technology can provide alerts within 2-3 seconds if a worker moves into a restricted space, along with the precise location of the worker and a live map view.

The current method of using human escorts at airports is expensive and error-prone. Airports can save overhead costs by reducing the number of security guards and worker escorts that are needed. $1,000,000 is the estimated cost of escort labor for a single project at a major US airport.
Conventional construction projects can’t use traditional portable tracking technology because it is fundamentally flawed. GPS positioning has too much latency and inaccuracy, while consumer smartphones and wristwatch wearables are too expensive.
Additionally, Volan can offer automatic site rostering data for recording when workers arrive and depart the work site.

How It Works

Volan sets up detection beacons to establish a work site zone perimeter and gives keycards to all workers.
Zone sensors detect wearers (construction workers) that are approaching and exiting the authorized zone, pinpointing their location along the barrier.
Airport supervisors are warned when the wearer approaches the barrier and are alerted of a breach when the wearer passes the barrier
Our solution is solar-powered and we are FAA/TSA compliant.

Zone Model

“Yellow Zone” shields send out a signal to capture wearable sensors that approach.
“Red Zone” shields send out a signal that reinforces yellow shields and registers a wearable sensor passing through the barrier.
Real-time view and alerts of breaches in the barrier with pinpoint location accuracy.

Barrier System Bird’s-Eye View

Barrier is easily identified on the live map.
Every few seconds, wearable sensors produce packets of data that include the precise three-dimensional location.

Barrier Installation

Devices are inside cases and installed onto fixed objects, such as construction barriers.
Battery banks placed inside to power devices.
Cases are both waterproof and FOD proof.
Plug and play setup enables easy install and modifications.

Intelligent Network

Patented technology automatically forms and reforms its own dynamic wireless mesh network.
Self-healing network – if one network sensor fails, another sensor mends the connection, and data is never lost.
Automated digital geofencing allows for easy installation and integration.

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Resource Tracking Use Case

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