The Federal Aviation Administration approved the
use of passive RFID transponders on individual airline
parts in June 2005. The use of active transponders
depends on further tests whether they could interfere
with other aircraft systems. For the above mentioned
application scenarios in the aviation industry, passive
transponders with a storage capacity of at least 10 kBit
are generally sufficient. However, if the collection of
sensor data is required (e.g. engine monitoring) active
transponders with higher storage capacity are
necessary.
In this example, we have seen that the object related
data storage is used because several actors are involved
in the maintenance procedures of an aircraft over its
lifespan. All these individuals require object related
maintenance data and the maintenance history in order
to service the aircraft correctly. Centralized data
management is not advisable due to the large number
of actors involved in the maintenance process.
However, the actors still synchronize data stored on
the tag with data stored in their networks.
A crucial point of the Boeing/Airbus initiative is the
standardization of the transponder. All involved parties
must be able to read and write the transponder. A
specification of how to save the data on the
transponder is required. A great challenge of this
standardization is the permanence of the data stored on