Safe Software's FME platform offers comprehensive data integration solutions specifically designed for the airport industry. It addresses challenges such as indoor mapping, data automation, and ensuring data quality while facilitating seamless workflows across various systems. Notable case studies include partnerships with Schiphol and Vancouver International airports to improve operational efficiency and enhance passenger experience using real-time data integration and visualization applications.

1. Data Integration Solutions
for Airports
1
Dave Campanas and Don Murray
www.safe.com

2. Years of solving data challenges
25
Safe So ware
COMPANY PROFILE
10,000
Organizations trusting us worldwide
www.safe.com
Partners supporting our network
150
128
Countries with FME customers

3. OUR MISSION
To help organizations
maximize the value of data.

4. “The world’s most valuable resource
is no longer oil, but data.”
THE ECONOMIST - MAY 2017

5. TECHNOLOGY
PARTNERS

6. Some industry
customers that
rely on FME.

7. Introduction to Safe Software’s
FME®
THE FME PLATFORM®

8. FME is the only Enterprise Data Integration Platform
built spatial “from the ground up”.

9. Connect
to Data Sources
Transform
the Data
Automate
the Workflows

10. CONNECT
CAD
GIS
FME release by year
NumberofsupportedformatsinFME
1995
10500100300
20192015201020052000
TABULAR
DATABASE
RASTER
POINT
CLOUD
BIM
3D
WEB
XML
CLOUD
BIG
DATA
IOT
BI
AR / VR
AI / ML
INDOOR
MAPPING
GAMING

11. Validate
Validate to ensure
high quality data
Adjust
Adjust workflows to meet
changing requirements
TRANSFORM YOUR DATA
Use any combination of transformers to address all
levels of complexity.
Modify
Restructure, filter,
calculate & more

12. Eliminate
Eliminate the manual
effort of complex and
repetitive tasks
AUTOMATE YOUR WORKFLOWS
Automatically execute workflows based on real-time events
or scheduled basis.
Trigger
Automate data
integration using
event-based workflows
Assemble
Easily build
automations using a
visual interface

13. COMMON AIRPORT CHALLENGES
ADDRESSED TODAY
Improve your
operational efficiency
Track assets and enable
wayfinding
Manage your facilities
and infrastructure
Facilities Management Indoor Mapping Spatial Analysis
Convert to/from AIXM
and analyze airspaces
AIXM and Airspaces

14. Indoor Mapping

15. WHY INDOOR MAPPING?
Indoor space management / planning
Indoor navigation

16. 18

17. IMDF
HERE Venue
Format
OGC
IndoorGML
SAP HANA
ArcGIS
Indoors
WRLD3D
IBM
TRIRIGA
Autodesk
Revit (IFC)

18. INDOOR MAPPING CHALLENGE: STRICT REQUIREMENTS
● Convert data to fit strict data model specifications.
● CAD standards help, but CAD data is not sufficient.
● IMDF specifications: register.apple.com/resources/imdf

19. Indoor Map
Physical
Floorplan
Data
Facilities
Management
Floorplan
Usage info
INDOOR MAPPING CHALLENGE: MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES

20. CHALLENGE: VENUES ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING
Keep your indoor map up to
date as the venue and source
datasets change.

21. FME hides the details so you
can focus on building your
indoor mapping data quickly
and effectively.

22. BUILD INDOOR MAPPING DATASETS USING FME
● Convert floor plans and ancillary data
into indoor mapping formats.
● Validate against specifications to ensure
data meets standards.
● No coding involved. FME workflows are
created using a visual interface.

23. WORKFLOW:
CREATING INDOOR MAPPING DATA
Read source data sets
Integrate internal data
models, BIM, CAD,
databases …
Prepare for output
Convert data to your
indoor mapping system
of choice.
Validate data
e.g. For IMDF, pass it to the
IMDFValidator and get a
data quality report.
Write to output
Write to destination format
and send to map provider, e.g.
Apple Maps Connect.

24. WORKFLOW:
CREATING INDOOR MAPPING DATA
Prepare for output
Convert to indoor mapping
format requirements.
❏ Georeferencing (lat-long)
❏ Semantic enrichment
❏ Classification
❏ Schema mapping
❏ Cleaning

25. IMDFValidator transformer on FME Hub.
Web service — upload your IMDF data and
get a link to your validation report.
safe.com/imdf
Validating IMDF data

26. Underneath: IMDF business rules

27. BUILD & MAINTAIN INDOOR MAPPING DATASETS
Build indoor
mapping data
Convert data from various
sources into indoor
mapping formats.
Validate against
complex specifications.
Automatically
update
Build event-based
workflows to trigger data
conversions and send
real-time notifications.
Convert for use
by other apps
Bring your floor plans into
other systems for analysis
and visualization, like Esri,
PDF, or Google Earth.

28. AIRPORTS

29. Example:
Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam)

30. SCHIPHOL GOAL: PREFERRED AIRPORT IN EUROPE
Best passenger experience
Digital share and open data
Indoor wayfinding / navigation

31. CHALLENGES
● Data quality
● IT architecture

32. SCHIPHOL WORKFLOW
Source data
Asset and building
information.
Preparation
Enhance data and
validate it.
Build wayfinding data
Routing and navigation, floor
plans, points of interest,
shopping information.
Distribute
To Schiphol API, Apple Maps, Google
Maps, and more.

33. SCHIPHOL AIRPORT: RESULTS

34. LOOKING AHEAD...
● Create a “digital twin” using
a feedback loop with:
● Real-time sensors
● Crowdsourced
observations
● Spatial and tabular data

35. “FME is the ‘ETL glue’ between geo platforms
to keep data up to date and in sync.”
Webinar: watch Schiphol present at fme.ly/ams

36. EXAMPLE: VICTORIA BC CANADA AIRPORT
● Convert ArcGIS Geodatabase to IMDF for use in Apple Maps.
● Source Data stored in 3 Geodatabases, one for each floor.
● Steps: clean up and snap geometries, prepare output, write to IMDF
specifications, validate IMDF.

37. VICTORIA
WORKFLOW
❏ Read source ArcGIS Geodatabase
❏ Georeference to UTM Zone 10
❏ Clean geometry
❏ Map schema attributes and values
❏ Combine rooms for levels/footprints
❏ Write IMDF & generate validation report

38. Converting Victoria internal
model to IMDF

39. EXAMPLE:
Vancouver
Int’l Airport
YVR converted their
internal GeoJSON data
model to various
formats and built a
mobile app.

40. Convert Indoor Mapping Data for Other Applications
● To another indoor mapping
format for use by other
applications. E.g. HERE Venue
Format
● To another system for
visualization and analysis, e.g.
3D PDF, KML.
● To an editing environment like
ArcGIS.
YVR indoor map converted to ArcGIS Indoors

41. Example: Visualizing YVR in 3D (PDF, KML)

42. Example:
San Francisco
Airport
Converting PostGIS to IMDF for use in Apple
Maps.

43. IMDF tutorial at fme.ly/vic
Other Data
sources
Staging
Database
IMDF
KML
Indoor
GML
Airport GIS
Data
Airport Map
Model
Read &
Transform
Read &
Write
Validate
INDOOR MAP DATA FLOW - STAGING DATABASE
IMDF Validator at safe.com/free-tools/imdf-validator
. . .
HERE

44. Other Data
sources
ACI AGIS
Schema
IMDF
KML
Indoor
GML
Airport GIS
Data
Airport Map
Model
Read &
Transform
Read &
Write
Validate
. . .
HERE
INDOOR MAP DATA FLOW USING ACI AGIS SCHEMA
IMDF Validator at safe.com/free-tools/imdf-validator
IMDF tutorial at fme.ly/vic

45. Make floor plans and real-time updates accessible to
passengers.
Indoor mapping for wayfinding
Improve operational efficiency by geo-locating and
tracking your assets.
Indoor mapping for asset tracking
Synchronize all facilities/infrastructure datasets by
bringing all data into a single source of information.
Application integration
Synchronize databases daily, send notifications as
passenger volume or construction changes, and more.
Automation
Transform data into the required structure and format
and ensure it meets standards.
Data transformation

46. AIRPORTS
AND INDOOR
MAPPING

47. Supporting Situational
Awareness
Location Aware Data Integration

48. SUPPORTING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Introduction
○ Los Angeles World Airports Collaboration with NICE
○ Supporting Airport Response Coordination Center (ARCC)
○ Submit and respond to incidents from field via iPad
○ Base maps from disparate datasets support application
are collected with FME Server
Full Slide Deck found here.

49. In the beginning…
○ Engineering data (CAD base maps, Oracle)
○ Environmental/Noise Data
○ Lease Database (PropWorks)
○ Maximo (Work Order System)
○ Coordination and Logistics Management (CALM)
○ Nice Situator (Incident Management)
○ . . .
All distinct systems with some sharing
EXAMPLE CHALLENGE: DATA INTEGRATION

50. The Opportunity
○ Bring databases together
○ Share information automatically
○ Build redundant database for mission critical functions
○ Format data and streamline for stakeholders
DATA INTEGRATION

51. SITUATIONAL
AWARENESS

52. Smart Airports

53. SMARD

54. FME as Data Integration Platform at Schiphol
GIS
Core-database
with Assets
and Infrastructure
information
Edit Platform
Schiphol Internal
Schiphol
Optimized
Viewing
data
Viewing Platform
Schiphol Internal
Viewing Platform
Schiphol Internal&External
Optimized
Geo Data
Realtime External
Sources
API Platform
Public
Geo
API
Wayfinding
POI’s
Maps
Routing
FME is the “Glue” between systems to keep data up to date and in Sync.

55. Smart
Airport
Projects

56. Obstacle Avoidance and
Airspace Planning
Location Aware Data Integration

57. High place recognition using LAS

58. High place recognition using LAS
● National Land Survey provides LAS datasets from whole
Finland through an API
● FME reads selected LAS mapsheets from the API
● FME analyzes, which LAS points are over a certain threshold
(different for every airport)
● FME produces maps and lists of the areas, and
map sheets, which have these high places

59. High place recognition using LAS

60. Analysis done 45 km
from airports

61. Obstacle Limitation Surface
Showcase:
3D Civil Aviation Tool
Obstacle Limitation Surface / Airport
Zoning Regulation
With minimum parameters, FME handles all
the magic of complex calculations for
constructing 3D models and generate
contours, eliminating the need to acquire
expensive third-party software (e.g. Obstacle
Surface Planner from Simtra) for generating
Obstacle Limitation Surfaces, enabling
inspectors to regulate structure’s height within
AZR.
Vancouver International Airport OLS/AZR
OBSTACLE LIMITATION
SURFACE

62. FLIGHT OBSTACLES
● Flight obstacles from Excel
● FME Server reads source data and provides an HTML report, and if the data
is valid, it’s written to an Oracle db
● The HTML report contains a map + feature info
HTML
Report
Oracle DB
Excel

63. ● FeatureReader for RSS
● Invalid flight obstacle (coordinates missing)
FLIGHT OBSTACLES

64. Airspace Visualization

65. FME and 3D Visualization...
● From simple to complex
workflows
● From small to huge dataset
● The Magic of FME handles it all
● From 2D to 3D display
● From kilobytes to gigabytes dataset
● Google earth performs seamlessly.
Google Earth Logo is a registered trademark of Google Inc.
... a Perfect Combination!!

66. FME and 3D Visualization
ESRI/OGC i3S

67. When it comes to 3D data ...
Why inspect it when you can experience it!

68. Obstacle
Avoidance
and Planning

69. Bridging the BIM and GIS Gap

70. The Problem
➔ DEN GIS uses outdated exported CAD As-Builts
➔ CAD exports are lines only and do not contain data
➔ Data, such as room names, numbers, location ID, etc., are entered manually in GIS. That’s A
LOT of data for 18 million S.F. of facilities and assets. Updating all that data is a nightmare!

71. The Solution: BIM GIS
➔ BIM is the new standard at DEN
➔ Revit models of all DEN facilities are updated daily and contain data critical to the
operations and maintenance of the airport
➔ IFC exported from Revit models contain geometry and SPATIAL data!
But how will they do this?!

73. BIM and GIS
Projects

74. Data Quality & Validation

75. Data Quality and Validation

76. CAD data validation and writing to PostGIS
▪ PostGIS is a data warehouse for Finavia
▪ FME will read many, many DGN files and Excel’s and move
the data to PostGIS
▪ The data has to be validated before writing to PostGIS
PostGIS
db
DGN/
Excel’s
Data
Validation

77. I can’t think of a single solution with FME where data quality and validation were not
part of the “Data Preparation” or day to day activity.
Data Health is something every organization battles.
Data Quality and Validation

78. If it is data related then
talk to us!
Chances are we have seen
it before and can help.
What challenge
do you have?

79. If you have a data
challenge then we can
help you.
The common
theme is “data
is key” to every
challenge!

80. FME® Data Integration Platform
FME Desktop FME Server FME Cloud
Connect. Transform. Automate.
FME is the data integration solution with the best support for spatial data worldwide.
Build & Run Workflows Automate Workflows (on-premises) Automate Workflows (cloud)

81. FREE RESOURCES
WE’RE ALL ABOUT
safe.com
Getting Started
Online Courses
On Demand
Live chat >
Tutorials and webinars >
Instructor led >
Live and hands-on >
Video courses & demos >
Knowledge Base >
"FME sets the
standard for
support and is the
leader by far".
- Brad
Very helpful and
went above and
beyond to help
find a solution to
my request! A+"
- Justin
"Thank you!
Answered all my
questions - AGAIN.
You folks always
seem to have a
way of doing that."
- Ray

82. DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
FME Enterprise
Subscription
● Subscription Program
● Ideal for larger
deployments
Individual License
Purchase
● Perpetual Licenses +
Annual Maintenance
● Great for smaller,
single-department
deployments
Cloud Deployments
● Pay as you go is
excellent for proof of
concept
● Annual rates provide
extra savings

83. THANK YOU!
Try FME for free at safe.com/trial
www.safe.com
Any questions we can answer?