A health assessment database system implementation for integrated system health management

Integrated System Health Management (ISHM) is becoming increasingly important to the future of aerospace, military and manufacturing operations and maintenance. A robust ISHM architecture can improve performance and safety while reducing the costs of maintaining complex, mission-critical systems. Utilizing distributed smart sensor technology, model-based reasoning and advanced visualization techniques, an ISHM-enabled system presents its operators with a complete picture of the system state and the health of the system's components and sensors. Achieving this robust Integrated System Health Management Architecture requires the development of many emergent technologies and tools, including a strong support database. This paper proposes a secure, extensible, and scalable Health Assessment Database System (HADS) for the development, deployment and operation of ISHM technology.