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Back in the 90s there was a 'cloud' system for Rolls Royce engines. Each engine logged data in flight to a 1Gb hard drive - the next time it landed somewhere wi
by excuse-me 14y ago
Back in the 90s there was a 'cloud' system for Rolls Royce engines.
Each engine logged data in flight to a 1Gb hard drive - the next time it landed somewhere with a RR service point the drive was taken out and plugged into a server and a fresh drive put in the engine.
The clever part was that most data would never be used - most of it was only needed if that engine developed a fault - so the database kept a central record of where each engine+date disk was in the world and only copied the data back to HQ if needed.
Now the plane has a sat data feed and the engine data goes live back to a monitoring station.