Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport

Customer

Shuangliu International Airport, Chengdu, China

Profile

Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, an important transportation of southwest China, serves around 12 million passengers and has 125,000 aircraft movements a year. The airport uses more than 280 display units including large LCD display boards, Widescreen monitors and LEDs. (according aviation statistics by 2005)

Industry

Airports

Project Overview

Business need

The airport faced to construct a new terminal in order to provide highly effective and efficient flight information and simultaneous multi-channels fully automatic audio announcement with state-of-the-art technology to passengers. So the airport turned to the world-known Infologic FIDS and DVAS system.

Benefits

A reliable system, yet highly flexible. Also, by integrating, automating and personalizing the flow of flight information and public announcement, the Infologic FIDS helped the airport optimized its operations.

Solution

Infologic provided a Windows-based solution which provides an active-hot standby redundant system. The solution is not only highly reliable but also highly flexible system. The system is still able to operate normally even when the number of flights was more than doubled. The beauty of the system is that it can be upgraded and expanded very easily. No major software changes was required and minimal impact to the airport operations during the upgrading exercise. The Infologic FIDS has a direct interface to the airport AODB where all flight data are received. FIDS in turn sends flight information to the airport Public Address System which provide the airport with automatic flight information system. The public address system provided by Infologic runs on Windows Platform with user-friendly GUI that includes the point and click environment, with comprehensive on-line help always available.