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FIDSMon

Flight Information Display System

Introduction and Overview

The effective display of flight information is vital to the smooth running of a passenger terminal, yet FIDS technology is often expensive and complicated.

Damarel's FIDSMon has been designed from the ground up to offer high quality information displays at a fraction of the price of other systems. Targeted at small to medium sized airports, FIDSMon uses a network of standard equipment to deliver the right information to the right location. The system is truly scalable, allowing the customer to tailor a solution that precisely fits their requirement.

Main Benefits

• Cost FIDSMon uses off the shelf hardware to provide an extremely cost effective FIDS solution that is as complex, or simple, as the customer requires.
• Configurable Displays All airports need to deliver information to passengers in a simple, timely fashion. FIDSMon displays are customer configurable, allowing the airport to design and target particular layouts and information for individual locations, whether Departures or Arrivals, Gates or Baggage Hall displays.
• Language Support FIDSMon has built in support for displaying information in the local language - whether it's English or Chinese, FIDSMon will deliver displays that the passenger can understand.

Integration With Airport Systems

Although designed primarily as a stand-alone system, FIDSMon provides standardised interfaces to external systems for automatic updates. These updates may be generated by handling agents, ATC or other airport systems, and can be configured to update displays without manual intervention.

In addition, FIDSMon is very tightly integrated with FiND, Damarel's Flight Operational Database, allowing many FIDSMon updates to be automated from airport feeds and SITA messages for simple, low maintenance operation.

Features

FIDSMon has all the features you require from a modern system, including:

• User configurable displays for different departments and locations
• Clustered monitors for extended displays
• Support for specialised devices, such as LED boards
• Emergency override message displays
• Remote monitoring and maintenance
• Free text display pages
• Timed sequencing for rolling displays
• Flight scheduling tools
• Full system and management reporting
• Real time operational clock

FIDSMon also supports advertising slots, inserting either static or full motion video adverts between updates to allow the customer to generate revenue from prime advertising space.

Internet Access

The modern airport increasingly offers access to flight information to people across the Internet. FIDSMon supports external interfaces to web servers to allow pages to be delivered quickly to wherever they are needed, increasing the audience and potentially reducing terminal congestion.

Technical

FIDSMon operates as a distributed application on a PC based Local Area Network hardware platform installed at the airport.

Application servers form the heart of the system, with all communications with remote devices taking place via the industry standard TCP/IP protocol.

For security and performance, an Oracle® 9i database is used to store all flight information and configuration data. Other RDBMS packages may be used if required.

Optional Web Servers, running Microsoft® Windows 2000 and IIS can be supplied for browser displays.

To discuss how FIDSMon or any of Damarel's other products can help your operation, please contact us by phone +44 (0)1252  783787 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it