Quantum Solutions and St. Louis Airport

As a major transportation hub for 30 years, St. Louis Lambert International Airport is pursuing digital transformation initiatives to bring Industry 4.0 to aviation. Such modernization projects are critical for consumer experience and stakes are high.

Previously, projects had been piecemeal and disconnected, and limited to improving one area of the facility at a time. St. Louis Airport leveraged the expertise of Quantum Solutions, a system integrator, and installed Stratus Edge Computing running AVEVA software – including HMI/SCADA and Historian – integrating the different islands of automation into a complete and centrally connected facilities and building management system. This replaced their aging and disparate systems, accelerating digitalization at the airport.

Jeremy Meahl - Regional Sales Engineer and Owner - Quantum Solutions

“High availability is a big thing. When you’re talking about moving an entire airport with multiple legacy siloed solutions over into one centralized system then you can’t afford to have downtime.”

Challenges

  • Modernize a decades-old operation, the largest and busiest airport in Missouri
  • Deploy and scale compute infrastructure to optimize operations of more than 190,000 daily aircraft operations on four active runways, two terminals, and five concourses
  • Support 15.6 million passengers and 74,000 tons of cargo per year

Solutions

  • Stratus ftServer deployed in the control center
  • AVEVA System Platform
  • System integration by Quantum Solutions

Benefits

  • Enabled situational awareness and unified operations center backed by easy-to-use fault tolerant computing
  • Continuous availability for critical business applications
  • Open and scalable software architecture