Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: John Croft | GPE – September 07, 2017:
In a Thales advanced technology laboratory in France, engineers are testing a next-generation air traffic controller workstation that will let controllers know if their visual scan needs a tweak. In Ottawa, Ontario, Searidge Technologies engineers are perfecting a camera-based augmented reality (AR) system that will see through the haze to allow for closer separation of aircraft arriving at an airport.
Originally published August 25, 2017: The independent work, separated by thousands of miles, is indicative of a technology renaissance on the horizon for the “offices” of the air traffic controller. Fueled by developments in video, touch and voice recognition and artificial intelligence technologies, the controllers’ future workstations appear to be on track to match or surpass the technology in the cockpits they are controlling.
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