An integration framework for airport automation systems

A large airport typically has dozens of automation systems that require automatic information interchange among them to ensure safe and efficient airport operations. However, those systems were often developed by different vendors and were not designed to be interoperable, which makes systems integration a very complicated matter. Ad hoc point-to-point integration often proves to be problematic. An integration framework is needed to avoid "spaghetti integration". This paper presents an integration framework for defining the integration information requirements and designing the systems integration architecture.