NEW POSSIBILITIES
As good as today’s SMS platforms are, it is always possible to make them better. One way to do this is by using artificial intelligence (AI) to support the collection of much more data, plus the enhanced analysis of this data to provide safety managers with actionable options.
This is the true genius of AI-enabled SMS. An AI-enabled system can sift through the data, spot patterns, and compare these patterns to those within its data storage system to find similarities and draw conclusions. AI can then compare these conclusions against the success of past responses to the data patterns, to identify what responses stand the best chance of explaining and remedying the patterns that AI has detected. It is these optimal responses that are offered to human operators, sparing them the time and effort of going through the data themselves.
“I think artificial intelligence running in the background can certainly help SMS software more quickly identify emerging trends,” says Day. “I feel the use of AI will become prominent to help decision makers with the data coming in from the SMS,” Starke adds. “As well, new ideas and paradigms such as Safety-II, human and
organizational performance (HOP), resilience, and complexity are coming into the general safety space. These ideas may have an impact on what we measure in SMS, how we look at defenses within the system, and how we assess risk.”
A second way to get more out of SMS is to harness the data collected by smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices, and combine it with aircraft data to provide a more complete resource for AI-enabled analysis. “After all, SMS is all about managing safety,” says ACSF’s Rufli. “The more data sources you have to work with, the better your tools can work in coming up with conclusions and actionable options.”
Add the ability to store, access, and share SMS data in the cloud, and there’s lots of room for SMS to expand the range of data it collects and analyzes. In turn, this enhanced analysis by AI- enhanced SMS software will improve the level of safety at which helicopter and UAS companies operate without adding to their day-to-day workloads. In fact, AI will likely reduce these workloads for humans.
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