The INtelligent Airport (TINA)

预计未来将出现多样化的应用程序，具有复杂且往往不同的服务要求、流量配置文件和用户期望。这将需要极其先进的自适应计算和通信系统，为用户提供移动、安全和自动化的开展业务的手段。一个主要的应用领域是国际旅行，这一领域得到了对基础设施的大量投资的支持，例如希思罗5号航站楼。在这种环境下，智能、自适应、自组织的有线/无线基础设施是必不可少的。预计这一基础设施的复杂性将大幅增加，这不仅仅是因为现有固定设备的激增，如无线基站、监视摄像机、安全探测设备、显示器和终端设备。所需经费还将用于更广泛地部署更紧凑的便携式设备，例如在各种运输设备上安装位置和控制设备。由透明的光-射频网络支持的射频识别(RFID)标签可以用于感知、定位和跟踪包括行李、移动资产和商业商品在内的一系列物体，并可以提供额外的功能，如登机牌自动标签和门禁标签。射频识别标签将以低数据速率运行，通常为千比特/S，但机场环境预计将包含数百万个此类标签。移动生物传感器将被广泛部署在这种环境中，提供先进的功能。一系列固定和移动终端将提供额外的安全措施，如化学检测和分析，而其他固定和移动终端将支持过境乘客信息和娱乐服务。该基础设施将支持一系列个人乘客和工作人员无线媒体富设备。因此，设想的有线/无线网络将是巨大和复杂的，支持大约1000万个信息源，在相对本地的接入环境中，预计峰值聚合数据速率为500Gbit/S。这超出了目前任何网络的能力，需要进行研究以了解建立有效系统所依据的原则。由于这是一个如此雄心勃勃的多学科项目，因此提出了一个合作方案。该项目得到了Laing O‘Rourke和Marconi的大力工业参与和支持，Laing O’Rourke将提供应用环境，分享设计经验、用户要求和架构约束，Marconi将贡献复杂通信系统设计方面的专业知识。在大纲建议阶段，我们收到机场管理专业委员会的反馈，他们欢迎与参与机场运作的人士进行更多合作。我们很高兴，作为回应，BAA和波音已同意参与该项目，在伦敦大学学院内，已与Paul Brennan博士建立了联系，Paul Brennan博士将贡献大量的RFID知识，参与该地区的一个欧洲重大项目。最后，我们还寻求包括摩托罗拉和安捷伦在内的设备公司的参与，以确保我们可以在项目的所有领域获得专家意见。

Diverse applications are expected to appear in the future with complex and often varying service requirements, traffic profiles and user expectations. These will require extremely advanced adaptive computing and communication systems to provide users with mobile, secure and automatic means of conducting business. A prime application area is in international travel which continues to grow supported by a significant investment in infrastructure, such as Heathrow Terminal 5.An intelligent, adaptive, self-organising wired/wireless infrastructure is essential in this environment. It is anticipated that the considerable growth in the complexity of this infrastructure will not just be due to the proliferation of established fixed equipment such as wireless base stations, surveillance cameras, security detection equipment, display and terminal equipment. The requirements will also be for a much wider deployment of more compact portable equipment, for example, location and control equipment on a wide range of transportation equipment. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags supported by a transparent optical-RF network can be used to sense, locate and track an array of objects including luggage, mobile assets and commercial goods and can provide additional features such as boarding pass auto-tags and access control tags. The RFID tags will operate at low data rates, typically 64 kbit/s, but an airport environment can be expected to contain a few million of them. Mobile biometric sensors will be widely deployed in this environment providing advanced features. A range of fixed and mobile terminals will provide additional security measures such as chemical detection and analysis, while other terminals, fixed and mobile, will support passenger information and entertainment services on transit. The infrastructure will support an array of personal passenger and staff wireless media rich devices. The wired/wireless network envisaged will thus be huge and complex, supporting perhaps 10 million information sources, with an anticipated peak aggregate data rate of order 500 Gbit/s in a relatively local access environment. This is beyond the capability of any current network and research is needed to understand the principles upon which an effective system could be constructed.As this is such an ambitious and multidisciplinary project, a collaborative programme is proposed. The project has strong industrial involvement and support from Laing O'Rourke who will provide the application context, share design experience, user requirements and architectural constraints and Marconi who will contribute expertise in complex communication system design. At the outline proposal stage, we received feedback from EPSRC that they would welcome additional collaborations with those involved in airport operations. We are delighted that, in response, BAA and Boeing have agreed to become involved in the project, and within UCL links have been made to Dr Paul Brennan, who will contribute substantial knowledge of RfID, being involved in a major European project in the area. Finally we have additionally sought to involve equipment companies including Motorola and Agilent to ensure that we can receive expert advice across all areas within the project.