Sydney Airport Operational with Sensis A-SMGCS

EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensis Corporation's Advanced – Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) at Sydney Airport is now operational. Airservices Australia air traffic controllers are using the system's highly accurate surveillance to monitor and maintain 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."

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 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, 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.

ABOUT SENSIS CORPORATION

Sensis Corporation provides sensors, information technology, and simulation and modeling to the world's air navigation service providers, civil aviation authorities, airports, airlines and militaries. Sensis Corporation solutions are deployed around the world. For more information regarding Sensis Corporation, visit www.sensis.com.

ABOUT AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA

Airservices Australia is a Government owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of air traffic across 11 per cent of the world's air space. Services include air traffic control, airspace management, aeronautical information, radar communications, radio navigation aids, aviation maintenance and engineering, environmental management and aviation rescue and firefighting. Airservices website: www.airservicesaustralia.com.

SOURCE Sensis Corporation