Tracking ideas and systems have been around for decades
but this system is affordable, realtime,
scales and permanent.
SmartPlane Locator System
Description:
Cloud location based service to track airliners.
Had lat long been saved to a Big Data
NoSQL columnar database
every 6 seconds Malaysia MH370 would have been found
within a 60 mile radius.
The cost could be as low as $1 per flight ticket at 100,000
flights per day world wide brings in revenue of $36,500,000 per year to pay for procurement, operation and maintenance.
Air France flight 447 cost $160 million dollars and 2 years to
locate. “But the search for Flight 370 is already far more
complicated, and may have already topped that total. "