The Annotator is a module within our data pipeline that is responsible for enriching the processed radio data with additional meaningful information. For our application, we downloaded data from the FAA’s (Federal Aviation Administration) Releasable Aircraft Database and used it to add additional information to each packet.
We will now be running the containerized Annotator on an AWS EC2 instance to integrate it with the rest of our NATS pipeline backbone. Running the Annotator in the cloud also ensures scalability to handle varying workloads and high availability by leveraging the cloud infrastructure, while running it locally limits scalability and may result in resource constraints.