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- Let's check out some of the latest technology
on the Airspace Explorer from Airbus A350.
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- Hello, hi. - Hi Sam.
- Hi, how are you? - Welcome aboard.
- Nice to see you.
I want to check it out what you have.
What kind of technology you have
inside this Airspace Explorer.
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- Welcome onboard our Airspace Explorer,
actually it's an A350 with an Airspace cabin onboard.
But it's much more than that.
It is a flying task platform to foster cabin innovation
and services to shape the future passenger experience.
- This is smart digital.
Look at this.
I thought it was a poster when I came onboard,
but it's actually a digital screen.
But what I found amazing is the 2mm thickness.
I wish I had one at home doing this kind of display.
Maybe that's where the technology heads.
- It can welcome passengers in the airline brand,
but it also can tell you about what is the favourite menu
or the dish for this flight.
But it's also about retail.
You can advertisement duty free shopping sale
and things like that.
So it's all controlled by an iPad.
And it's one element of our connected experience.
Like the galley, like the seats,
like the window blinds,
all under your fingertips.
And because it's so thin and so light,
we can use it here at the monument,
but we also think about using it maybe in the ceiling,
for great welcome help.
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Just follow me for the next connected element
here in the cabin.
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- I'm familiar with this Business Class setting.
I think this one is used by quite a lot of airlines.
Quite popular.
- That's true, but we have the innovation on the windows.
And actually this is the third generation
of an electronic window shade,
as well, connected to the same system,
like the panel in the entrance area.
And we can control it centrally
or you can control it yourself
to dim from complete open to full dark.
- Oh, wow.
- [Ingo] Very simple intuitive.
- There's not even need a button.
You can just push to the wind screen.
- [Ingo] Yes
- And then he goes to dark.
Very interesting.
We'll do one more time.
And it goes to full dark.
- This is why we also introduce it now
because we waited until we have a solution
that is hundred percent dark
because that is what you need for good sleep.
It's really hot outside.
And the sun is strong,
but completely dark.
I think that is the maximum test you can do here in Dubai.
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Just while you're sitting in that seat.
I want to highlight to you another innovation
that we've got as a request also from the passenger side.
It was all about the hygiene
and for them, it's really important to have an area
in the personal environment in the seat that is hygienic,
but today it's not visible.
So what we invented is two things.
First, you have coatings placed on your foot tray
for instance, from the table,
but also on that side surface as well.
And on the fabric of the seat itself.
It's a brand new fabric,
completely covered with anti-microbial coating,
but usually people don't know.
- So what you're saying is these surface are coated.
The germs will repel it off.
- Actually this anti-microbial coating
will kill the germs.
- Ah, they kill the germs.
- Yeah.
- Interesting. - Yeah.
That's why you can feel safer. - Can't see it right?
You can't see the virus.
- And that's why we thought we make the hygiene visible.
It's there, but you need to know it as well.
- Really good to know.
So even the fabric can actually kill the germs.
- Exactly.
- Wow.
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- This is surely much more legroom
than economy seats, right?
I wish they really have a like this in economy (laughs).
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So I'm sitting on some sort of smart seats, right?
- Exactly smart seat,
because we enabled it,
the intelligence due to sensors
and we have sensors in the backrest.
We have sensors at the armrest.
We have it in the seat button
and in the seat pan.
So the crew can see if you have your seat upright or not.
The crew can see how often you use the seat.
So we can use that even for new designs
to optimise the design of the seat in the future.
- You're collecting data
from how many times people doing this
and also who can see me doing this.
During takeoff and landing,
you cannot a recline, right?
- And actually we arrived here
in a smart internet of things world.
Collect the data to optimise services
to optimise products
and to create a better experience.
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Sam, you want to take off
and we see you're not ready
because you seat this not upright
and you seatbelt is not buckled.
- You saw the data from the tablets.
- Exactly.
You got it.
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- I can't cheat anymore.
I have to properly don up my belt.
Okay, ready to take off.
- Here we go.
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- This is a connector galley.
That means all the galley inserts, the ovens,
the coffee machines, the water heaters
are connected to the aircraft digital backbone.
And we are able to recover all the maintenance data,
all the technical data off the galleys inserts,
the usage, the power consumption,
so that we can also then do data analytics.
We can do predictive maintenance.
And this is the big advantage.
- So you every data whatever,
the oven's cooking what.
It can show in the tablets here.
- [Sascha] Yes.
- So engineer can see it,
the cabin manager - Yes.
- They can see it.
- [Sascha] Exactly and that's the point.
- So oven three is on.
So I see the green dots here, right?
- Yes.
- And then this is the green dot oven three zone.
- [Sascha] Exactly.
Is there a technology you can also show,
oh, this is where the coffee is.
This is where the drink is.
- Yes this is all catering.
Exactly.
This is exactly Sam.
This is catering management.
So we can also identify where are the Cokes
or other beverages
where are certain foods.
So it makes the life of the cabin crew much easier,
if they know where exactly the catering has been stored.
- Sam, please follow me.
We saved one last highlight for you.
- Wow.
My God, this is quite something.
This projection on the wow, on the ceiling,
on the overhead bins.
This actually very cool.
It's like a cinema here.
I'm sitting in business class imagining.
- It's a 3D cinema.
It's really projection done by four projectors,
creating unbelievable ambience.
And you can customise it.
You can customise it to the destination.
You can customise it to your interior brands,
to whatever first class ambiance you want to create.
We have done that on ground with our innovation partners.
And then the airlines came up, said,
"Oh, okay that projection does that really work on flight?"
Do you have vibrations and all of these things going on?
And so we put it here on the Airspace Explorer,
and we proved it worked.
And now this will be available soon to offer.
- This is such a treat here.
I can imagine
if you have a very cosy four seater first class,
then you can have your private cinema playing.
Maybe in the future is everything's customised
in the aeroplane travel.
It can bring your USB sticks
say I want to watch "Squid game."
I want to watch whatever you want to watch.
And it will be shown as a cinema,
a private cinema in the air.
Incredible.
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