Fri, May 21, 2010
Advanced - Surface Movement Guidance And Control System
Improving Runway Safety And Efficiency
Air traffic controllers for Airservices Australia have started
using Sensis Corporation's Advanced - Surface Movement Guidance and
Control System (A-SMGCS) at Sydney Airport. The system's highly
accurate surveillance monitors and maintains the safety of the
airport's runways and taxiways in all weather conditions.
"The Sensis A-SMGCS at Sydney is providing our controllers with
the situational awareness needed to continually see every aircraft
and vehicle across all runways and taxiways, including during bad
weather and at nighttime, for improved runway safety and
predictable airport performance," said Airservices Australia
General Manager Air Traffic Control, Jason Harfield. "The system's
conflict detection and alerting functionality adds another layer of
safety by proactively sensing potential conflicts between aircraft
and vehicles and providing an audible and visual alert so
controllers can quickly respond to the situation."
Combining surveillance data received from Sensis
multilateration, surface movement radar and VeeLo NextGen vehicle
locators, the system provides the location and identification of
all aircraft and vehicles in the movement and non-movement areas.
It also features Sensis Safety Logic conflict detection and
alerting technology that alerts controllers in advance of any
potential runway incursions. Additionally, the A-SMGCS integrates
data from Airservices' flight plan system and provides real-time
surface traffic information to the en route and terminal aerodrome
automation system. All information is displayed on Sensis
Controller Working Positions and is recorded for future
playback.
"The Sydney A-SMGCS provides precise surveillance and
identification information to increase the efficiency of airport
operations while also enhancing safety," said John Jarrell, vice
president and general manager of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. "This
highly-flexible system can be expanded to accommodate future safety
applications, including runway lighting and taxi route conformance
monitoring, efficiency tools such as airport surface management
systems, and technologies that increase capacity, for example wide
area multilateration for precision runway monitoring."
Sensis A-SMGCS has been selected for more than 40 deployments
around the world. In Australia, The system is also
operational at Melbourne Airport and is being deployed to Brisbane
and Perth Airports.
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