An exemplary internal wireless sensor monitoring system includes a wireless sensor positioned inside of an enclosed housing to monitor a condition in the housing, a wireless gateway positioned outside of the housing, a gateway antenna located in the housing configured to wirelessly communicate with the wireless sensor, and a conductor extending through a penetration in the housing and connecting the gateway antenna and the wireless gateway.

Devices and methods for activating a flight-enable beacon configured to provide a light beacon or data signal comprising capability to establish and maintain a fixed set of coordinates. The flight-enabled beacon is configured with a processor, memory, motor, gimbal or swashplate and light emitting source and can be configured to attain and maintain a target altitude and emit a light over a fixed period of time. The flight-enabled beacon is configured to be light and with small form factor for easy portable transport in cases of emergency or to provide a signal easily locatable by parties located a distance from the activated light-enabled beacon.

An electronic flight assistant device has a first processor coupled to a firmware memory containing machine readable instructions executable by the processor (Firmware) and a random access (RAM) memory; an electronic camera coupled to the processor; a visible-wavelength laser adapted to be gated and scanned by the processor; a switchable cockpit light; at least one digital radio coupled to the processor; and a housing containing the processor, electronic camera, laser, digital radio, and cockpit light; the firmware configured to perform optical reading of cockpit instruments, to determine error conditions, and to scan the laser to provide indications to a pilot of error conditions.

Systems and methods for locating UAV. The methods comprise: causing a physical joining of a payload with a fuselage of the UAV without any modification to the fuselage (where the payload comprises a communication relay configured to perform relay operations to extend a range between users of a communication relay link for voice and data communications and a first locator configured to perform location operations to determine and report a location of the UAV to the users of the communication relay link); using a power source to supply power to the payload that is independent from a main power source used to supply power to avionic electronics of the UAV; and continuing to perform the relay operations by the communication relay and the location operations by the first locator, when power is no longer being supplied to the avionic electronics by the main power source of the UAV.

An autonomous distress tracking system for an aircraft is described. The system can include a transponder configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) emissions and an RF detector unit configured to detect the RF emissions. The system can further include an alert system that is in communication with the RF detector unit and be configured to activate a distress radio beacon if no RF emissions are detected within a predetermined period of time.

A deployable device mountable on a carrier vehicle and configured to collect situation awareness data. The deployable device includes at least one recorder device configured to collect situation awareness data. The deployable device is capable of being ejected from the carrier vehicle and can be configured to operate as a vehicle and/or be towed by the carrier vehicle. The deployable device can continue collection of situation awareness data after being ejected.

A method for automatically decoding aircraft Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) encoded data includes loading a definitions class and a decoder class into a memory via a driver class, loading configuration files into the memory via the definitions class, receiving from an aircraft CVR one or more hex files that include the CVR encoded data into the memory, generating via the decoder class and the configurations file one or more decoded objects based on the one or more hex files, respectively, and displaying the one or more decoded objects in a human readable format. A system to automatically decode aircraft CVR encoded data includes a user interface, a processor, and a memory having a computer program configured to generate one or more decoded objects based on one or more hex files of CVR encoded data, and to display the one or more decoded objects in a human readable format.

Disclosed herein is a method for recording flight data of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using blockchain technology. The method includes collecting sensor data from a sensor installed in the UAV, collecting location information of the UAV from a GPS installed therein, estimating the flight status of the UAV based on a control signal, the sensor data, and the location information, detecting an abnormal condition by comparing the flight status with the flight plan of the UAV, generating signature information corresponding to surroundings at a corresponding time based on peripheral signals collected from a receiver installed in the UAV, generating a transmission data block capable of being registered in a blockchain based on the flight status, the abnormal condition, and the signature information, transmitting the transmission data block to a flight data registration apparatus, and registering the transmission data block, received by the flight data registration apparatus, in the blockchain.

It is an integrated system that (RECORD) registers the events on the plane (video/audio) and stored on the hard disk to get to know the truth of what happened on the aircraft in emergency situations and disasters and we can also get a live broadcasting of the events WHILE THE FLIGHT in an emergency by using (wifi) satellite internet or data over hf (wbhf) technology with ad hoc.

An autonomous distress tracking system for an aircraft is described. The system can include a transponder configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) emissions and an RF detector unit configured to detect the RF emissions. The system can further include an alert system that is in communication with the RF detector unit and be configured to activate a distress radio beacon if no RF emissions are detected within a predetermined period of time.