EUROCONTROL CFMU
Case study
Every day in Europe more that 30,000 aircraft take to the skies. EUROCONTROL, the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, makes sure that this air traffic flow is a safe and efficient process. As an operational unit of EUROCONTROL, the Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU) manages one single air traffic flow management system over
Europe.
With an ever-increasing number of states and flights, the role of the CFMU is constantly being expanded. To support this growth and to improve daily operations, EUROCONTROL put into use a new Central Flow Management Operations Room in July 2007. Entering the new facilities in Brussels, Barco's video walls immediately catch the visitor’s eye. Next to that, Barco's technology has become an indispensable support for CFMU operators.
Enhanced situational awareness
Both from a technical and an operational perspective, Barco's video wall technology significantly contributes to a higher situational awareness. At any one time, the CFMU operators now have an overview of the current status of their systems (both operationally and technically).
The video wall display for the CFMU OPSD was installed early 2007. It consists of 67” display cubes with XGA resolution in a set-up of six by two and spans about 8 meters wide. The OPSD operators are presented with an overview of a wide variety of information, such as flight plan data, maps, surveillance video, weather information and slot allocation data.
In October 2007, Barco installed a second video wall display for the CSO section. This wall consists of 67-inch display cubes with SXGA+ resolution in a set-up of four by two. On this wall, CSO operators are presented with the real-time status of the many components of the technical systems, server and network overviews, and various planning data.
About this project
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| Date | October, 2007 | |||||||||
| Location | Brussels, BELGIUM | |||||||||
| Press releases | Eurocontrol monitors air traffic capacity with Barco's video wall display technology (en) |
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