Paris Orly Airport Deploying Sensis Multistatic Dependant Surveillance and Aerobahn to Manage Traffic Increase
Sensis MDS and Aerobahn Providing Improved Situational and Operational Awareness
DEWITT, NY – April 28, 2006 – Sensis Corporation today announced that Paris Orly Airport will use its airport surveillance system, Multistatic Dependent Surveillance (MDS) and its airport operations automation platform, Aerobahn®. The airport has seen a steady increase in the number of passengers; in 2005, the airport handled 24.9 million passengers, an increase of 4.4% over the previous year. Sensis MDS will provide surface surveillance of the runways, taxiways and gates as well as automatic labeling of aircraft for improved situational awareness, enabling the airport to monitor traffic flows and throughput prior to safely implementing procedural changes. Further, Aerobahn will complement the multilateration system by enabling Service de la Navigation Aerienne (SNA), the French civil aviation authority for the greater Paris region, to view, monitor, and quantifiably measure airport operations.
“Currently, at Charles de Gaulle, Sensis MDS is enhancing situational awareness as part of the A-SMGCS while Aerobahn is providing us with valuable insight into routing management with its ability to play back events,” said Jean-Pierre Cochet, project manager for advanced surface movement guidance and control systems and radar equipment for SNA. “The heightened surveillance accuracy and resulting improvement in efficiency made the implementations of these technologies at Paris Orly essential.”
At Paris Orly Airport, Sensis is partnering with surveillance and navigation equipment supplier NavControl to provide Sensis MDS and Aerobahn. Sensis MDS, a transponder multilateration system, uses low-cost, non-rotating sensors to detect and track the movement of aircraft based on their transponder signals. The system provides precision comparable to global positioning systems, a higher update rate than traditional airport surveillance radar, and consistent surveillance performance regardless of weather conditions. Further, through its compatibility with developing concepts such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B), Sensis MDS provides a bridge to future technologies. The system is deployed at an additional nine major European airports for surface and/or enhanced terminal surveillance. Additionally, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is deploying the Sensis multilateration system to 35 airports as critical component of the Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X program (ASDE-X).
The Aerobahn platform is a secure web-based architecture which collects surveillance data from sources such as Sensis MDS, and related flight plan data from external sources, and transforms the data into real-time information. The Aerobahn platform provides a number of sophisticated data management and distribution capabilities which fuel the Sensis QuickView, TaxiView and OpsView airport automation products. Sensis QuickView enables users to quickly assess the status of airfield operations by providing statistics that summarize arrival and departure information; Sensis TaxiView enables users to tactically manage operations in real-time for improved situational awareness and informed, cost-saving decisions; and Sensis OpsView enables post-operation investigation, analysis and reporting, and can be invoked within seconds of an event.
“Aerobahn leverages Sensis MDS’ surveillance accuracy to help maximize the efficiency and profitability of operations for air navigation service providers, airport authorities, airlines and airports,” said Marc Viggiano, president of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. “With the operational visibility supplied by Aerobahn, these organizations can better forecast activities and react to unplanned events – strengthening their competitive position.”
