Since its Switzerland introduction, the system has evolved with new capabilities, the company says, thanks to its COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) architecture which allows it to be easily adapted to accommodate local procedures and seamlessly integrated into existing ATM (air traffic management) systems.

This past March, Barco's OSYRIS was operationally approved for the arrival management system at Singapore's Changi Airport, where some of its core capabilities include routing advice, runway allocation and holding advice.

Then in April of this year, Avinor, Norway's ANSP (air navigation service provider), selected the system for three airports in southeast Norway, including Oslo's Gardermoen.  The contract with Avinor included integrating OSYRIS into the Norwegian ATM system to enable the efficient management of arrival traffic within the Oslo AoR (area of responsibility).

Finally, as recently reported in Flt Tech Online, Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department (CAD) contracted with Barco in June to provide an OSYRIS-based arrival sequencing system.

The OSYRIS product line also includes a 4D trajectory prediction engine to provide ATC controllers profile calculations, taking into account aircraft type, performance, and weight, as well as operating procedures and preferences, and meteorological information.

The OSYRIS departure manager, Barco's newest addition, has been designed to optimize departure sequences.  11-02-2007.