Ottawa International Airport Authority and Searidge Technologies partner to advance airport operations with Artificial Intelligence

Ottawa International Airport Authority (OIAA) and Searidge Technologies have entered into a strategic collaboration to conduct an extensive nine-month demonstration of Searidge’s Smart Stand at the Ottawa International Airport (YOW).

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Smart Stand enables the digitalisation of ramp operations. An aircraft turnaround includes hundreds of individual tasks with the involvement of many airport and airline stakeholders, who have limited coordination and automation tools. Smart Stand will improve accuracy and automate the generation of timestamps for key turnaround processes such as aircraft on/off block times, service vehicle arrival and departure, passenger deplaning and boarding, and ramp safety checks.