Big Plane Power Management System Comes to Small Aircraft

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by TE Connectivity

TE Connectivity (TE) introduces the new advanced power load management system (APLMS) that has been designed by combining software and embedded microcontrollers to answer the rising need of small aircraft for automated power via data bus communication and control.

The APLMS provides automated electrical load management that reduces the burden on the flight crew to oversee the health and status of the electrical network. The advanced system is able to make decisions and can reconfigure the electrical system to restore electrical power in the event of a power failure or wiring faults. The system can monitor a variety of power qualities and intelligently execute load shedding and fault isolation functions, all while providing the necessary status updates to the pilot and flight crew.

The APLMS offers affordable, intelligent power management to smaller civil and regional aircraft and also electric military vehicles.