AVNX EO
Does your system provide a full Groundstation, with data download, analysis, archiving, trend monitoring, tech support etc etc etc???
I know that a company from El Monte make a really top notch RTB system, but their reps claim it does everything HUMS does, which I can assure you is a wildly overstated claim.
A HUMS system in essence is any system which monitors and records health and usage data. It does not specify a number of sensors, or definate locations. However, the aim of the system is to prevent catastrophic loss of aircraft as far as is possible through the monitoring of systems with no built in redundancy.. that means the possible list of locations and number of sensors is limitless. Flogging hardware and calling it HUMS is easy, providing the technical back up to turn that data into useful information to the boys on the shop floor, without causing them unneccessary work, and providing third line engineering back up, to pinpoint faults that are otherwise missed, is the clever bit.
Providing an automated, and reliable data analysis system is clever too, none of us have quite perfected it..... yet
