FIDS - Flight Information Display System

Flight Information Display System (FIDS) is the showcase of an airport that is a very critical component for passengers and welcomers. It is vital that the system has to be accurate, fast and up and running on a 7x24 basis. TAV IT FIDS does not only meet and exceed of traditional FIDS requirements but also lifts the bar to a level where satisfaction is guaranteed.

While assessing the importance of the system, TAV IT FIDS is designed to provide airport management with automated control to distribute and display real-time flight information to passengers and airport operational staff.

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With its comprehensive and accurate facilities, TAV IT FIDS not only ensures the distribution of flight related information on a variety of public and staff display devices, it also provides to display advertisements, media and real-time weather forecast data on corresponding display devices along with flight related data.

As a key component of an airport’s integrated operational systems, TAV IT FIDS can directly be connected to the Airport Operational Database Management System. Thus, the flight information received through integration can be automatically displayed on display devices in a timely manner, with little or no manual intervention. However the comprehensive features of TAV IT-FIDS such as carefully designed Seasonal Flight Management and Active Flight Management components provide it to be operated as a stand-alone application.

Multilingual
TAV IT FIDS presently supports various language options both on user interface and display devices including English, Cyrillic, Georgian, Turkish, Arabic, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi etc.

Rich Internet Application
TAV IT FIDS is developed as a multi-tiered application. The layers of this structure are loosely coupled and communications in between them are accomplished through well-defined messages.

TAV IT FIDS application provides users with rich interactivity and responsiveness similar to desktop programs. By leveraging improvements in data loading, visualization, and execution, it delivers better performance to users and more efficient use of computing resources. It feels and acts more like desktop applications than traditional HTML-based applications.

1. Interactions and updates do not cause entire pages to refresh, improving user experience, CPU and network performance
2. A wide range of user interface components and expressive features such as transitions and animations help users understand data and application flow
3. Support for real-time data streams provides instant updates without manual user intervention or expensive page reloads.
4. Support for rich media allows more lively and compelling user experiences.

Platform and Database Agnostic
TAV IT FIDS is a platform agnostic application. Depending users’ needs and requirements, it can be deployed on any platform. Thanks to its clusterable and failover features that supports high availability and reliability. With its intelligent object-relational mapping in the data access layer, TAV IT FIDS can work with any database out-of-the-box.

Smart Active Flight Management
The Active Flight Management is a hallmark of TAV IT FIDS. The module is designed by keeping operation staffs’ daily requirements in mind: Rich but intuitive filtering options in a sliding panel, multi-column sorting functions, configurable row counts, quick access toolbar, adjustable second panel for work-on-later flights, easily noticeable resource icons, sophisticated resource and remark management and having all these with easily distinguishable row color scheme.

User-friendly  Content Management
As a leading FIDS product, TAV IT-FIDS has a praiseworthy Content Management module. The module is built on the idea of implementing a flexible graphic container that is capable of displaying every kind of graphic content. It lets users easily implement and convert their conceptual designs into actual ones.

Revenue generator: Advertising Management
The Advertising Management module displays all kind of media formats including images, animation and video clips. The Playlist feature provides to play the media files according the play order, play time frame, play count and etc. The module manages assignments of playlists to individual display devices or to a group of display devices

Additional Components
TAV IT FIDS complete solution also provides additional components to meet airport operators’ all needs.

1. Telephone Inquiry System enables users to access flight information on the phone
2. Public Announcement system that is integrated with major announcement systems provides passengers with very clear information on the flights throughout the terminal building
3. Flight Reporter sends flight updates to your mobile phone as SMS

Sophisticated Display Device Management
TAV IT FIDS has a sophisticated Display Device Management. This prospers the product to support all type of display devices: CRT monitors, LCD flat panels, Plasma displays, LED Boards, Split-Flap Display.

1. Devices can be defined by device type, resource device group or terminal zones.
2. Device Set feature enables to define multiple public monitors as a set that displays flight list that exceeds one-monitor view.
3. Displaying multiple pages on a single public monitor by automatic paging.
4. Robust and interactive device monitoring and management functionality

Additional Features

1. Flexible rule engine
2. Alternative data entry through CUTE workstations
3. Elimination of shadow effects by utilizing intelligent display techniques
4. Visual Paging
5. Easy installation and mature deployment techniques that guarantees no work intervention.
6. Distribution of real time flight information to external areas including hotels and travel agencies.

"TAV IT FIDS offers the best possible solution for all airports from all sizes. The complete solutions delivered by TAV IT FIDS entitle the product re-define "FIDS concept" and exceeds the standard requirements expected from a common FIDS."