Wisscom Aerospace....another player? London — An Algerian researcher, Abdou Attou, put on the market a new software "SmartTrack" designed to locate in real time missing aircrafts, thanks to a techniqueallowing the continuous picking up of the satellite connectivity of the aircraft.
Founder and CEO of "Wisscom Aerospace" company, based in Oxford, one of the world's bastions of scientific research, Abdou Attou offers to the aviation industry, technology solutions to prevent tragedies similar to those of missing AirAsia aircraft over the Java Sea or that of Malaysia Airlines in March of last year, not found to date.
Besides the software "SmartTrack," the company "Wisscom Aerospace" also designed the "CloudBox", a virtual box which absorbs and instantly transmits via satellites to the data centers on soil, the audio and messaging records from the cockpit and capital information about the aircraft position, altitude, speed, wind speed and atmospheric pressure.
Speaking to APS in London, Attou, who has held senior positions in world-renowned banking institutions, before shifting to innovation, said that these "priceless" softwares will be "undeniably" useful to air navigation, to strengthen the capabilities of the data analysis via satellite by the airlines.
"Spotting with accuracy a plane which crashes in sea becomes a true source of concern after the missing of Air France flight 447 in 2009. But nothing has been done to address that, despite the huge costs for the purchase of Airbus- or Boeing-brand commercial aircraft," Attou stressed.
He added that those recurrent tragedies "have consistently underscored the need for finding new approaches and new technologies."
So, it is this desire to significantly reduce the time between a crash and the launch of relief operations that pushed the Algerian entrepreneur and brought him to found in 2013, with engineers and computer scientists, the company "Wisscom Aerospace", specializing in satellite connectivity software, to find the much needed solutions.
Today, the company provides "low-cost" software that "will completely change the situation and the fundamentals of the economy of this industry," according to Attou.
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