Latitude Technologies Corp. has announced the IONode 100 onboard system integration product and the Air Tanker Information System software management tool kit.  Anchored by the new Web Sentinel 3.0 web-based family of products, and with two years of experience in California and Australia, Latitude has developed an end-to-end solution for real world drop track reporting.

The new IONode 100 interfaces directly to aircraft systems including the ubiquitous Bambi Bucket product line, a range of belly tanks and type I, II and III airtanker systems to provide unparalleled system monitoring and data distribution.  Coupled to an S100 or S200 Iridium-based SkyNode product, the collected onboard data is wrapped and sent to the LWS Sentinel system. The configurable and highly user friendly web-based tool box can be tailored easily by the administrator to provide a series of manageable real-time drop reports for tactical, costing, dispatch or efficiency reporting using the collected real-time data. This new family of products integrates seamlessly with existing aircraft systems so the user can add equipment and functionality as the mission dictates.