It starts with seeing everything. HopShip puts a 10 Hz tracker on every ground vehicle, draws live geofences around aircraft and restricted zones, and alerts crews in under 100 ms. That live picture is what we automate on top of.
Six rungs from raw airside data to autonomous ground operations. Every rung is a product someone pays for, and every rung is what makes the next one possible.
Autonomous ground ops: self-driving GSE coordinating safely with aircraft. The long-term goal.
The new airside standard: define the next ADS-B, and license it as a cockpit layer.
Intelligent dispatch and optimization: sequence and utilize ground fleets for throughput and safety.
Augmented awareness: geofence, proximity and risk surfaced in real time, under 100 ms.
Monitoring for every stakeholder: ops, airlines, handlers and authorities on one live picture.
Data collection: instrument every vehicle and asset, the raw airside truth at 10 Hz.
We are here Alerting is live today. Control is what we are building now.
See the full roadmapInstrument everything. Then automate what the data makes obvious.
A rugged HopShip tracker on every GSE vehicle reports position at 10 Hz, and live aircraft are fused in from ADS-B.
One live picture of the whole surface, with geofences that ops, airlines and handlers all read at the same time.
Breach and proximity alerts reach driver tablets and ground control in under 100 ms, and every second is recorded for replay.
The HopShip agent takes routine calls off the radio: geofence the stand, check it is clear, sequence the next vehicle.
Two buyers, one live picture. In real life the line between them is fuzzy.
They own the turnaround clock, and every minute a gate sits blocked is money out the door. We show them where their ground fleet actually is, then sequence it: which vehicle services which aircraft, in what order. Bought by station and ops leadership, measured in on-time departures.
They own the vehicles, the drivers and the damage bill. We give them collision prevention first: live geofences, proximity alerts, and a replayable record of every event. Bought by safety and operations, measured in incidents avoided and vehicles they stop needing.
At some airports the handler is owned by the airline. At others the airport authority runs the apron and everyone else rents space on it. The same feed serves all three, so we sell through whichever door opens first and expand across the ramp from there.
Six capabilities, bottom to top of the pyramid: see everything, decide fast, then automate.
Every tug, truck and loader on the live map, ten updates a second — fast enough to see motion, not just dots.
Aircraft positions fused from ADS-B into the same picture, where proximity logic covers the most valuable asset: the aircraft.
Rule-based and on-the-fly zones: non-movement boundaries around active stands, runway protection, closed sectors. Drawn in seconds, enforced instantly.
Zone breaches and vehicle-to-aircraft convergence trigger alerts to vehicles and ground control before the situation develops.
Second-by-second replay of any event, with a complete audit trail for investigations, insurance and driver training.
The HopShip agent understands controller intent — “pushback at A4” — auto-geofences the stand, checks it is clear, and tells any vehicle in the way to move. Routine clearances handled before anyone keys the radio.
Instrumenting a ramp isn't free, so it has to pay for itself on day one. It does. Tugs, fuel trucks and belt loaders work feet from $100M aircraft with no live picture of where anything is. Most incidents are invisible until the damage report: a tug clipping an engine cowl, a loader backing into a fuselage, a fuel truck inside a safety zone it never saw. Ground damage costs the industry billions every year, and the radio isn't fast enough to stop it.
We install trackers on a handful of vehicles, stand up the live map, and show you your first near-miss data within weeks. Tell us about your operation: