Posted By John McHaleSYDNEY, Australia, 17 May 17 2010. The Advanced - Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) from Sensis Corp. in East Syracuse, N.Y., is now operational at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia. Airservices Australia air traffic controllers are using the system's surveillance capability to monitor and maintain the safety of the airport's runways and taxiways in all weather conditions.The Sensis A-SMGCS solution combines surveillance data received from Sensis multilateration, surface movement radar and VeeLo NextGen vehicle locators to provide the location and identification of all aircraft and vehicles in the movement and non-movement areas. The system 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 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," says Jason Harfield, Airservices Australia general manager for air traffic control. "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.""The Sydney A-SMGCS provides precise surveillance and identification information to increase the efficiency of airport operations while also enhancing safety," says 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, Sensis A-SMGCS is also operational at Melbourne Airport and is being deployed to Brisbane and Perth Airports. Airservices Australia is deploying Sensis Wide Area Multilateration for terminal and en route surveillance across Tasmania and to enhance terminal operations and precision runway monitoring at Sydney Airport. Sensis is also designing and delivering an integrated air traffic control solution for Airservices' National Tower Program (NTP) Technology Project.
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