Air Traffic Control and Management

Air traffic control centers

Superior display quality for optimum user comfort

As the eyes and ears of the cockpit crew, air traffic controllers need to guide aircraft safely and efficiently to their destinations. This requires intense concentration as they make fast assessments and life-critical decisions. As the only interface between the operator and the ATM system, the display system must be of the highest quality possible to meet the demands of such a challenging job. Barco's family of high-resolution displays combines performance, low life cycle cost and user comfort into an innovative visualization solution for today's controller working positions.

Maximum availability and reliability

To guarantee safety and efficiency of ATC operations, optimal operational performance and maximum system operability needs to be guaranteed. Barco provides a full range of intelligent software tools and components that ensure overall system availability and flexible re-sectorization. Furthermore, Barco's display solutions for ATC controller working positions are designed for maximum uptime, easy maintenance and upgrading with minimal impact on operations.

Queue Management

In order to maximize throughput capacity, maintain safety and minimize delays and impact on the environment, en-route, approach and terminal centers are sharing up-to-date planning information. Barco’s Queue Management tools provide a global plan to achieve these goals while reducing controller workload by providing a consistent plan.

Air traffic control towers

Visibility at all times

Operators at airport towers have to control traffic and safeguard operations in varying light conditions. In order to make critical information available at all times, tower control displays need to guarantee readability during daytime high bright conditions as well as nighttime darkness. Barco's Tower Control Displays present the most detailed information with superior image quality at all times and hereby significantly reduce eye fatigue.

High-performance traffic visualization

Tower operators are working with an integrated view of a wide variety of sources. Barco's visualization components for airport environments visualize air surveillance situations with a high number of dynamic flight objects, optionally combined with radar video overlay. A wide range of external information, such as map, weather and flight plan data can be mixed.

Queue Management

Barco’s Queue Management tools propose optimized arrival and departure sequences for maximum inbound and outbound punctuality while reducing runway queues. Barco's software reduces the ATC workload and improves the workload distribution by active advice generation and improved coordination capabilities.

Air Traffic Flow Management Centers

Coordinated and cooperative management

Air Traffic Flow Management centers have become essential for managing safety and efficiency of air traffic on a wider geographical scale. In a coordinated effort, various air traffic stakeholders (airlines, airports, air navigation service providers) are collaborating to ensure smooth traffic flow and reduce delays. Barco's visualization solutions support the respective authorities to collaborate more efficiently by offering them increased situational awareness through a common operational picture. Large-screen visualization offers operators up-to-date information from a wide variety of sources in one user-friendly overview, allowing for easy detection of possible bottlenecks.
Barco’s Queue Management product line provides a perfect tool set to ensure smooth and efficient traffic flow at major airports through a collaborative approach.

Airport/airline operations centers

As the central control and information hub, the airport/airline operations center needs to efficiently coordinate all airport operational activities and ensure security of the airport infrastructure at all times. Up-to-date information needs to be shared between various shareholders (airlines, airports, air navigation service providers) in order to maximize throughput capacity, maintain safety and minimize delays and impact on the environment. Barco provides a real-time collaborative work environment for monitoring, response dispatching/co-ordination, access/flow control, recording and overall systems control for 24/7 operations.

Barco's comprehensive traffic visualization solution consists of a high-quality display, a controller and wall management software. Multiple rear-screen projection modules can be combined into a display wall of any size. Latest generation graphic controllers allow for virtually unlimited integration of data and video sources into one comprehensive overview. Open wall management software guarantees seamless integration with today's leading Traffic Management solutions.

Featured products

High-resolution displays Barco's LCD displays are designed to meet or even exceed the strict optical specifications imposed by the air traffic control (ATC) community.

Air traffic management display servers Barco's air traffic control (ATC) display servers allow the graphics visualization function to be separated from the application function. This increases the overall performance of the system and generates more freedom for future reconfigurations and updates.

Operational Display Development Barco's ODS Toolbox™ is a proven air traffic control (ATC) software solution that enables a team of experts to create high-performance HMI applications while keeping development time and cost at a minimum.

Queue Management Tools Barco's range of Queue Management tools is a complete and proven tool set for an integrated air traffic arrival, departure and flow management, to maximize the efficiency of air traffic management (ATM) systems.

Recording & playback Barco offers recording and playback hardware and software for the defense and aerospace industry to capture, archive, play back and manage mission-critical audio and video.

Ultimate Fallback System The Ultimate Fallback System is a stand-alone radar fallback solution for the main air traffic control (ATC) system and ensures uninterrupted operations.

Aerodrome Surveillance Component The Aerodrome Surveillance Component is an advanced air traffic control (ATC) system which enhances the performance of the control radars and provides operators with the information they need for accurate decision-making.

Video walls Barco's complete portfolio of high quality video wall modules encompasses a very wide range of different sizes, resolutions and projection technologies

Video wall controllers Display any type of video and data sources on any video wall configuration.

Video wall software Barco's easy-to-use software allows to manage your control room, video wall and operations the way you want