We delivered the pattern matching and performance management components of our state of the art safety management system that provides functionality for data collection, real-time data processing, visualisation, notification and alerting to inform crews, flight planners and other decision makers about increased levels of risk before a flight takes off.

The solution included the following features:

• Integration of safety and operational data across different databases and different stakeholders
• Application of advanced data mining techniques to detect
• • patterns of variables (risk patterns)
  • combinations of values that affect the likelihood or severity of safety events
• Continuous monitoring of safety and operational performance indicators
• Matching of performance indicators to risk patterns identified from historical data
• Automatic notification module informs relevant stakeholders of any patterns or alarms that were raised by the risk pattern matching function
• Completely customisable dashboards with charts, gauges, counters and data lists
• Multiple dashboards: private or shared dashboards
• Flexible searching and filtering
• Sophisticated data cube techniques to explore, drill-down or roll up data (similar to pivot tables in spreadsheet products)
• Limitless scalability without impacting on performance

The Corballis Pattern Matching module was used to configure bird strike risk patterns, and was able to monitor airport and airline data in order to identify those patterns. Notifications about identified patterns were generated and distributed automatically to relevant stakeholders, i.e. to crews for whose flights an increased risk of bird strike had been identified. This increased the crews’ situational awareness of the most relevant hazards at any given time.