HOW IoT HELPS AIRPORTS
EVOLVE OPERATIONS.
Since 2019, Senzary has been deploying industrial- and commercial-grade IoT sensors, LoRaWAN devices, and dashboards at airports. Hundreds of use cases at terminals, tarmacs, internal areas, and expansion zones. Live at JAX, Pittsburgh, Miami International, Ft. Lauderdale.
AirportIQ / SkySmart — 60 days from PO to live data across terminals, ramps, BHS, and IAQ.
FROM CURB TO RAMP. ONE PLATFORM.
AIRPORT OPERATIONS HAVE A VISIBILITY PROBLEM.
Restrooms cleaned on a fixed schedule whether they need it or not. Escalators inspected weekly while bearings fail at hour 800. Wheelchairs hunted across terminals. Concession placement based on hunches. Sub-contractors entering restricted areas undetected. The data exists — it just doesn't talk.
Unknown people flows
Where passengers actually walk, dwell, queue, and exit — invisible to most ops teams. Concession placement and signage decisions made on hunches.
Repetitive manual work
Restroom checks every 30 min regardless of usage. Walking the terminal to verify escalators. Hunting wheelchairs and service carts. Cleaning crew dispatched on a clock, not on a need.
Asset location & utilization
Plane chargers, golf carts, wheelchairs, baggage carts, tools — high-value mobile equipment that goes missing or sits unused. No utilization data.
Sub-contractor tracking
Construction crews, cleaning vendors, maintenance contractors in restricted areas without real-time accountability. Compliance documentation done after-the-fact.
Escalators & conveyors
Critical movers inspected by visual walk-by. Bearing failures emerge as catastrophic stoppage during peak hours. Customer complaints generate the first signal.
Safety & security blind spots
Fire extinguishers "not in place," doors propped open, sound anomalies in remote zones, leaks behind walls. The clipboard misses what continuous sensing catches.
4 BUSINESS CATEGORIES. ONE INFRASTRUCTURE.
Monetization
- →Services to airlines (ground equipment utilization, gate operations)
- →Services to concessions (foot traffic by retailer, dwell time)
- →Passenger services (wayfinding, dynamic ads, mobile alerts)
- →People with disabilities (assistance requests, real-time tracking, feedback)
Cost Reduction
- →Energy management (HVAC, sub-metering, ESG reporting)
- →Water management (leak detection, fixture monitoring)
- →People efficiency (cleaning dispatched on usage, not clock)
- →Predictive maintenance (avoid failure-driven overtime)
Regulatory
- →Compliance reporting auto-generated from sensor data
- →Automated emissions and noise records
- →Audit-defensible trail (timestamped, geotagged)
- →TSA / FAA / ASHRAE 62.1 documentation streamlined
Operational
- →People counting and flow analytics
- →Escalator and conveyor health monitoring
- →Real-time asset location (wheelchairs, carts, tools)
- →Optimized cleaning and collection routing
QUEUE MANAGEMENT RESULTS.
Smart people counting + queue analytics deployed at airport checkpoints, customs lanes, gate areas, and concessions.
NOT A POC. PRODUCTION.
JAX (Jacksonville)
Multi-year deployment. 6M+ people counted. Passenger flow, environmental, baggage.
Pittsburgh International
Multi-modal IoT. Telematics, smart video intelligence, real-time event management.
Miami International
LoRaWAN + CBRS comparison deployment. Multi-vendor sensor coverage.
Ft. Lauderdale
Terminal operations and ground equipment monitoring.
START WITH ONE TERMINAL. ONE USE CASE.
No-bid procurement via Sourcewell. Pre-negotiated pricing, FHWA/FTA/IIJA-eligible. 90-day pilot. Expand on the same IoTLogIQ tenant — terminal by terminal, use case by use case.