Global Ground Support

Members of Ally’s Operational Technology Group Help National Leader in Plane Deicing to Design and Implement Low-Cost, Web-Based Vehicle Telemetry System

Project Details

Global Ground Support is a manufacturer of plane deicing trucks that operates in 33 countries and holds exclusive contracts with both the United States Navy and United States Air Force. The company was looking for a cloud-based telemetry system that could access, process and synchronize data from individual truck terminals in order to track operations in real-time and measure how much deicing fluid operators used.

Solution

Members of Ally’s Operational Technology Group collaborated with Inductive Automation to design a customized, web-based telemetry system to track, organize and store information regarding each of the 1,700 deicing trucks in service across Global Ground Support’s entire client base.

Conclusion

The MIDAS system, accessible by any authorized Internet-connected device, allows analysts to review real-time information from any deicing truck worldwide. This insight helps Global Ground Support improve efficiency and driver accountability, while reducing the carbon footprint associated with the overuse of deicing fluid.

“I very quickly learned that not only were we going to be able to meet the basic requirements of the system that I was hoping to develop and expected in order to be successful, but we were going to be able to exceed them.”

–Jeffrey C. Walsh, Executive Vice President Sales Service and Marketing Global Ground Support, LLC