Yuhina

The smart app for better airport wildlife management

Yuhina is a small bird dwelling in the dense jungles of North-East India. But that is also an app on the phone that does the magic for wildlife management at your airport. Yuhina is a frugal, efficient and modern way of collecting bird/wildlife data. Just a few taps, and you get the brilliant insight. Yuhina tells you why birds are coming to your airport. What could be done to reduce their attractions? 

How about getting an advanced notice of the arrival of migratory birds at your airport? That would help one to prepare. How about implementing internationally acclaimed ‘As Low As Reasonably Possible’ (ALARP) management that saves you money, time and energy? Yunina does not just analyse what you are doing, but goes further to help you conceive ideas. You could engage civil authorities with powerful evidence for enforcement. Yuhina is a game for the most efficient way to manage wildlife at your airport.

The current scenario

The wildlife hazard assessment and management apps in the market simply collect data on what airports have already been doing. They collect data on ‘active management’ methods like bursting firecrackers, booming gas cannons, while ignoring a meaningful analysis on the attraction factors of birds. 

They do not provide the probability of strikes versus the probability of damage based on the recommended equations, but instead label the risks as ‘low’, ‘medium’, or ‘high’. This leads to the obfuscation of analysis, leading to erroneous conclusions. The apps do not offer how to manage a bird after finding that it is a high-risk species. Hence, new tools of wildlife management for the airport staff would not be available. No species-specific and ‘passive management’ is offered to the functionaries. In the absence of the new tools, the airport would not be able to make a difference in bird strike rates. 

The data collection in the current apps is cumbersome, leading to operator fatigue. Operator fatigue leads to truncated data collection. The truncated data misleads the conclusions.

The current apps rely on the data collected within the airport and do not consider what is happening in the immediate vicinity and far beyond. This approach often fails to consider a larger picture in which the airport is a part. 

Why Yuhina?

Yuhina answers all the current drawbacks in the ecosystem. The airport can now have access to robust statistical data collection methods that give a deeper and meaningful analysis. Operator fatigue is eliminated through the innovative user interface that requires very few taps. The app knows what birds are reported from the airport and immerses the operator to engage. 

The most difficult Time Series data is collected in an easy manner, providing a strong backbone for analysis. The public domain bird data from outside the airport is automatically integrated for analysis. This helps in getting a larger picture of the phenomenon and yields robust management tools. In addition, the app lets you monitor your observations done outside the airport. 

Yuhina is designed not just to provide you with a proper Risk Analysis, but also categorises birds in the 25 grids as per IBIS.  For airport managers, seasonal Risk Analysis Tables help in monitoring how new management methods are performing. The top analysis includes risk evaluation of Runways, geospatial analysis, time series graphs, risk analysis tables, attraction factor analysis, and bird strike identification. Bird strike identification helps in achieving ALARP management at an airport, because no resources will be wasted on non-target birds/wildlife. 

Yuhina helps in arriving at what customised measures one should adopt for mitigating wildlife hazards, and most suggestions are easy to implement and cost-effective. The trends are monitored, and managers get alerts for which bird activity would bother you next. 

Yuhina empowers the managers by reducing bird strikes at the airport, not merely functioning as a data collection app. 

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