AN MBSE-APPROACH FOR USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION IN THE AIRCRAFT CABIN

In air travel a fierce competition for customers forces airlines to keep track with societal developments. A prominent example is the use of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) with wireless interfaces onboard aircraft. Due to this demand WiFi, Bluetooth and GSM are already certified for aircraft use. A novel wireless interface used in PEDs and which features secured communications is Near Field Communication (NFC). After a maturation period NFC now seems to reach a breakthrough in PEDs. At airports this technology is already set to be an enabler for future digital travel. An exhaustive integration into the air transport system, or even into the aircraft cabin, still remains a challenge, because a common infrastructure has to support various businesses and uses cases within a distributed and complex technical environment. To cope with those challenges the methodology of Model-based System Engineering (MBSE) is considered to be a suitable and future-oriented approach. Hence, an introduction to NFC technology and the tailoring of an MBSE-approach using the System Modeling Language (SysML) for an integration of NFC into the aircraft cabin are presented.