ATOMS — Airside Turnaround Operations Management — is the turn-cycle product for airports. One operational record that follows a flight from its origin, through the air, into touchdown, off the runway, across the taxiway, onto the stand, off the stand, and back into the sky. Three companies, one record. Production-tested. Deploy in weeks.
A turnaround doesn't start when the chocks go on. It starts when the inbound leaves its origin and ends when it's wheels-up on the outbound. ATOMS captures the whole arc — every phase, every event, every actor — on one operational record.
Phases 1–4 use third-party feeds (ADS-B, AODB, DCS, ATC). Phases 5–7 are captured by NorthSky hardware packs — opt-in below. Phase 8 closes the record and opens the next cycle.
ATOMS core gives you the turn record across phases 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 — fed by your existing feeds. Phases 5–7 are where NorthSky hardware adds the events. Pick the packs that match your priority. Light them up later if you start with one and decide to grow.
Apron cameras + sensors + edge processing. Captures fifteen turnaround events per flight on the stand — from aerobridge connect through pushback — with evidence clips and confidence scores.
Surface-movement capture across the taxiway network. Not one flight — every flight. Heatmaps of where time is lost. Bottleneck identification at hot-spot intersections. Per-stand taxi-out and per-runway taxi-in distributions.
Runway throughput, separation, and slot adherence analytics. Touchdown-to-touchdown distributions. Line-up to wheels-up timings. Runway occupancy by direction, by hour, by weather window.
Runway foreign-object detection is a separate product — AeroFOD → — because it needs a dedicated sensor installation alongside the runway. Apron FOD lives inside Pack 01.
Each event is detected from camera vision + sensor signal, time-stamped at the edge, and written to the shared turnaround record. Every event carries an evidence clip and a confidence score. Catalog is configurable per airline and per stand.
An apron turnaround is run by three different companies — the airport, the airline, the ground handler. Today they reconcile from three different systems, often after the fact, often in dispute. ATOMS gives all three the same operational record, in real time, with the same time-stamps and the same evidence.
Existing infrastructure first. Apron CCTV, taxiway optics, runway-end cameras — ATOMS works with what's already on site. Where coverage gaps exist, NorthSky supplies cameras, edge boxes, and passive sensors to fill them. No requirement to rip out a working camera network.
Detection runs on edge boxes at the stand, the taxiway hot-spot, or the runway end. Inference happens where the camera is — sub-second latency, low bandwidth. Stand-level resilience: a tower outage doesn't blind the apron.
Events stream to the NorthSky platform. Airport ops, airline ops, and the ground handler each see their own view of the same record. Audit trail by design. Inference in India. Read AI governance →
No. Each pack is independently licensed and independently deployed. Most customers begin with one — typically Ground Handling — and light the others up later as priorities and budget allow. ATOMS core works with any combination.
NorthSky supplies cameras and edge boxes where coverage gaps exist. We've designed the hardware for typical apron lighting conditions (day, night, monsoon). A stand-by-stand survey precedes deployment.
Per-flight timelines stream to the airline's operations centre via REST APIs, webhooks, or A-CDM feeds — depending on what the airline is already plumbed into. Read access is scoped to that airline's flights only.
The handler themselves, the airport ops centre, and any airline whose flights they handle. Sharing is governed by the deployment contract; the audit trail is preserved across all parties.
No. ATOMS feeds A-CDM where it exists — TOBT updates, milestone time-stamps, hand-offs to the network manager. If you're not yet A-CDM aligned, ATOMS can be the operational record that gets you there.
Runway FOD is a separate product, AeroFOD — different sensor installation, different optics, different operational profile. Apron FOD (fuel spills, small objects on the stand) is covered by ATOMS Ground Handling pack.
Production-tested. The configuration template ships with ATOMS — procedure book, event catalog, per-stand camera mapping. Pilots are typically scoped in days and live in weeks. Active design partners welcome on Pack 02 and Pack 03 in particular.
A 30-minute walkthrough on your real stands, your real taxiways, your real runway throughput. We'll show you what each pack would surface and propose a deployment scoped to your priorities.