Smart Stand: AI-Powered Intelligence for Departure Predictability
Smart Stand uses AI and computer vision to detect and timestamp aircraft turnaround milestones, turning cameras into operational sensors. The result is earlier awareness, proactive coordination, and more predictable departures.
- AI Milestone detection
- Turnaround intelligence
- pobt accuracy
- a-cdm integration
- operational playback
- Chorus Integration
- gate network visibility
The Stand Visibility Gap: Why Turnaround Milestone Data Can Be Inconsistent
In many airport environments, turnaround milestones are confirmed manually, estimated from experience, or recorded retrospectively across separate systems, introducing variability that directly affects departure predictability.
This limits shared visibility across airlines, ground handlers, airport operations, and air traffic control. As a result, Predicted Off-Block Time (POBT) can drift from actual aircraft readiness, while emerging bottlenecks remain invisible until they begin to impact departure sequencing.
As traffic volumes increase and operational buffers narrow, even minor inconsistencies at the stand can affect overall departure performance. Addressing this requires a shift from estimated, manually confirmed milestones to objective, real-time visibility of turnaround activity.
How Smart Stand Converts Stand Activity into Departure Intelligence
Real-time airfield visibility, performance monitoring, predictive insights, and historical analysis in one shared workspace.
Smart Stand addresses this operational gap by introducing AI-enabled identification and tracking of turnaround activity directly at the stand, generating structured, real-time operational data to support coordinated departure readiness.
Smart Stand continuously monitors turnaround activity at the stand using live camera feeds and AI. AI automatically identifies and timestamps operational milestones such as aircraft on- and off-block, bridge connection, fueling activity, baggage handling progression, and pushback readiness.
Smart Stand integrates directly into your existing AODB, AOP, and A-CDM systems, so milestone data reaches the right teams and systems, keeping all stakeholders aligned in real time.
How Smart Stand Works
Smart Stand is an AI-powered turnaround solution that automatically
detects and timestamps turnaround milestones.
Smart Stand Key Capabilities
AI-Driven Precision
AI-Enabled Milestone Detection
Smart Stand automatically detects and timestamps critical turnaround milestones: on- and off-block, chocks placement and removal, bridge connection, fuelling, baggage handling, door status, and pushback initiation. It also captures safety-related stand conditions such as wing walker and marshaller positioning, ground service equipment placement, and stand zone compliance. Your departure readiness data is structured, consistent, and no longer dependent on manual confirmation.
Network Visibility
Operational Dashboards & Gate Views
A live dashboard across your stand network, with gate-level milestone timelines gives your team one shared picture of every active turnaround. No tool-switching.
Proactive intervention
Configurable Alerting
Set your own thresholds and get alerts when a turnaround deviates from expected progression, before irregularities escalate into departure disruption.
Built to Scale
Scalable, Resilient Deployment
Smart Stand is built to scale across large gate networks, with the resilience and security controls required for complex operational environments.
Connected Intelligence
System Integration & Data Exchange
Verified turnaround data flows automatically into your AODB, AOP, and A-CDM systems through Chorus, reducing manual re-entry and keeping every stakeholder aligned in real time
Earlier Interventions
Turnaround-Aware Apron Context
Smart Stand extends visibility beyond the stand to capture surrounding activity that influences turnaround progression, including ground service vehicle positioning, congestion near the stand, ground support equipment availability, and access constraints affecting pushback readiness. This enables earlier identification of constraints before they impact departure.
Defensible Review
Video Playback & Operational Review
Every turnaround is recorded and milestone-aligned, giving your team a defensible record for reconstructing events, validating disputed timings, and reviewing performance without relying on manual logs or retrospective reporting.
Watch Smart Stand in Action
See how Smart Stand delivers real-time turnaround intelligence across your gate network.
How Smart Stand Improves Turnaround Performance
Defensible Operational Review
Every turnaround is recorded and time-stamped, giving your team a clear, structured record to reconstruct events, validate disputed event timings, and support post-event performance reviews.
Earlier Identification of Stand Delays
Smart Stand surfaces emerging stand constraints in real time, giving your team the visibility to intervene before they turn into departure delays.
Coordinated Departure Readiness
Stand readiness data shared across airlines, airport operations, and ATC supports more synchronized, coordinated departure decisions, reducing reliance on radio calls and manual updates.
Improved Departure Predictability
Smart Stand replaces assumption-based readiness with structured, real-time operational intelligence. This supports more accurate Predicted Off-Block Time (POBT) alignment and reinforces On-Time Performance (OTP) and schedule resilience, without adding physical infrastructure or staffing.
Scalable Digital Airside Infrastructure
Smart Stand scales with your airport’s digital roadmap. Rather than functioning as a siloed application, it supports a broader digital airside strategy, extending from turnaround monitoring at the stand to broader apron and surface intelligence over time.
Smart Stand in Operation
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Smart Stand powers JFK’s Virtual Ramp Control system, bringing AI-enabled milestone tracking across 50+ stands and giving ramp controllers the situational awareness they need to manage over 1,000 daily movements.
Operational teams gained live gate readiness data across every active stand, reducing reliance on pilot-initiated radio reports and giving ramp controllers objective confirmation of stand status in real time.
Result: Enabled AI turnaround monitoring across 50+ stands at one of North America’s busiest airports.
Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport
At the first Virtual Ramp Control system in the U.S, Smart Stand is a key integration at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport. Smart Stand runs across 66 gates and remote stands, delivering AI-driven turnaround tracking and a live view of every active stand.
Automated milestone detection replaced manual data entry across all gates, ensuring the A-CDM environment received verified, real-time stand data — reducing reporting delays and improving POBT accuracy.
Result: Reduced manual data entry and improved POBT accuracy across 66 gates and remote stands.
Smart Stand Frequently Asked Questions
Smart Stand is Searidge’s AI-powered turnaround intelligence solution. It uses AI-driven computer vision to detect and timestamp the key milestones of each aircraft turnaround, turning live stand activity into structured operational data. That data flows into real-time dashboards, alerts, milestone timelines, and synchronized playback, giving teams a shared, live view of turnaround progress and departure readiness across the gate network. The result is more predictable departures, stronger coordination, and better stand performance.
Smart Stand processes live video feeds from stand-mounted cameras using Searidge’s AI engine, which automatically detects and timestamps turnaround activity in real time. Detected events are integrated into your operational systems including AODB, AOP, and A-CDM. Smart Stand can be deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration depending on your airport’s IT and operational requirements.
Smart Stand automatically detects and timestamps a range of critical turnaround milestones including aircraft on-block and off-block, chocks placement and removal, bridge connection, fuelling activity, baggage handling milestones, door status, pushback initiation, and safety-related stand conditions including wing walker and marshaller positioning, ground service equipment placement, and stand zone compliance. Smart Stand can also incorporate surrounding apron context that may influence turnaround progression, including ground service vehicle movement, congestion near the stand, and access constraints impacting pushback readiness.
Smart Stand integrates with AODB, AOP, and A-CDM systems through Chorus. Turnaround data flows automatically into these systems, reducing manual re-entry and keeping every stakeholder aligned in real time, without requiring a separate interface.
Smart Stand records stand video and supports synchronized, time-aligned playback of every turnaround. Operational teams can reconstruct milestone progression, validate event timing, and investigate irregular operations using camera footage and timestamped activity data. The result is a defensible operational record that supports performance reviews and dispute resolution without relying on manual logs or retrospective reporting.
AODB, AOP, and A-CDM systems, ensuring the right information reaches the right teams in real time. This architecture allows Smart Stand to operate as part of your broader digital airside ecosystem rather than as a standalone monitoring tool and supports flexible deployment models aligned to your airport’s IT and operational requirements.
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