Case Study: Airbus streamlines aircraft maintenance with Newicon's computer vision mobile app

Airbus builds a 16-page computer vision maintenance app with Newicon

The customer Airbus sought to explore the feasibility of a smartphone app that could use computer vision to measure aircraft landing gear, replacing a manual process involving a ruler and printed graph. The challenge for vendor Newicon was to determine if a phone's camera had sufficient resolution for accurate measurement and if object detection could work in real time.

Newicon conducted a feasibility study that mathematically proved measurement was possible from a user-friendly distance. They then successfully prototyped edge and object detection using OpenCV. The promising results led to the development of a full app by Newicon that automatically measures the component and provides instant pass/fail feedback, streamlining the maintenance process for Airbus.

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