Airlines
The Next Generation of Aircraft Will Track Your Bathroom Visits
Airbus sees a big market in digitally aware cabins that may speed your flight—and save airlines lots of money.
Attention airline bathroom loiterers: The next generation of Airbus aircraft will track how long you’ve been in there.
It’s all part of an effort to make commercial cabins a digitally aware domain. The program is Airbus’s bid to raise the Internet of Things—that buzz-phrase for connected household gadgets—to cruising altitude.