Airside operators are the ‘eyes and ears’ of the airfield team and spend much of their shifts on the airfield patrolling, inspecting and addressing situations.
The team of airside operators works in a high risk, safety critical environment requiring effective decision making, problem solving and technical skills. Since airside operators work solo most of the time, their actions are mostly based on personal judgement, knowledge and experience.
Cooperation in a team on airside requires excellent communication. However, at most airports communication technology dates back to the early days of aviation.
The rapid development of mobile communication in the recent years offers a huge potential for more effective and efficient airside management.
Bird Control Group seized the opportunity to introduce a new software application and bring real time mobile communication power to the airside area.
Airside Pro: The platform for interactive airside management
Manage tasks, inspections and alerts
Collect and visualize strategic data
Exchange valuable knowledge with team members
Export data for strategic and legal purposes
Engaging the work force
Airside Pro was created with a clear goal in mind: To motivate people to become an ‘Airside Pro’.

Industry innovating technology
Airside Pro is a combination of a web application, a mobile application, web service and a database.

Cloud
– Runs on Microsoft Azure or Amazon Webservices
– Flexible and scalable
– Automated backups
Local server and database
– Data stored on local server
– Ready for intranet only use
– Ultra secure
Mobile application
Although every airport is different, the role of airside operators covers a multitude of standardized tasks including inspections, general tasks and reporting of situations of attention.
Airside Pro is the indispensable tool for optimal team performance. The all in one tablet application connects all airside operators in an interactive network. Everything airside operators need is integrated in one user friendly tool, resulting in more situational awareness, better cooperation and more efficency.
Airside Pro provides a great tool to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
Interactive dashboard
The interactive map of Airside Pro provides a clear overview of the current, real time situation. The important tasks are marked with a location and the movement of any colleagues is visible. Airside Pro offers the possibility to report situations of attention and keeps everyone on airside up to date.
The interactive map is specifically designed for the interest of the airside users offering:
• Incredible level of detail
• Labels with relevant information
• Customizable & updatable
• Comprehensive information on land use
Mobile notifications
Inspections and tasks are displayed in a clear way and linked to a location on the map. Interaction with colleagues and group tasks enables more efficient team performance.
Managerial information is displayed in the bottom of the screen. The notifications keep all users up to date with the latest status of tasks, inspections and availability of colleagues.


Inspection
Inspection
Zones for regular inspections, like runways, can be activated with a timer. The icon displays the current status.
Task
Task
Tasks are often related to a specific location, by clicking on the icon the user gets detailed information..
Flag
Flag
When an anomaly is observed, the airside operator can notify all team members by placing a flag.
Airside operator
Location
The user icons show the location of all other team members, enabling better cooperation.Web application
Airside operators share the responsibilities for airside safety and efficiency. Managing an airside team is a challenge, because the operators are constantly moving around the airport. Therefore communication is essential. Airside Pro offers managers a great tool to communicate with the team and get an overview on the actual status of operations as well as insight in long term data.
Airside Pro offers managers the necessary tools
to effectively and efficiently coordinate the team.
Dashboard: A complete and comprehensive overview of the situation
Overview of all recent events
The map displays the reports and events of the last three hours. This real time and recent information offers an unsurpassed insight in the current situation and the possibility to take immediate action when necessary.
Tracking of vehicles and operators
The locations of all users and vehicles are displayed in real time
on the map.
The icons on the map give a direct overview of the status of certain events. More detailed information can be displayed in the list view.
Incident management
Due to the comprehensive overview of the real time situation, Airside Pro offers a great tool for incident management. The information gives managers the ability to make informed decisions, gaining those crucial seconds in a crisis situation.

In the map legend all layers can be switched on or off to enable a more detailed look at specific events.

Tasks: Efficient task management
- Plan tasks in advance
- Set due time and priority
- Get notifications on task status
- Assign task locations

Team tasks: Enable self managing teams
- Assign tasks to all active airside operators
- Enable self managing teams

Inspections: The countdown begins
- Set interval time
- Inspections can be (de)activated by all users
- Completing inspections is a team responsibility
- Inspection locations can be assigned
Time machine: A comprehensive look at the past
- Go back to an exact moment in time
- Detailed timeline of the events and reports
- Replay an event exactly as it occurred
- Export data as time lapse video
- Export as Excel and PDF files
Settings: Optimize the software application for your airport
The settings menu enables the configuration of local situations, vehicles, airside operators and inspection zones. These settings enhance the localization, ease of use and effectiveness of the Airside Pro software tool.
- Language
- Units
- Map settings
- Usernames
- Map features
+Wildlife Module
The presence of wildlife on and near airports is a serious risk for safety of aircraft. However, management of wildlife is not an easy task.
Monitoring wildlife presence and behavior is a vital part in finding solutions that work on the long term.
In recent years more and more airports have started reporting on wildlife presence and management activity, but this still involves a lot of paperwork. Data often flows in one direction: from airside to office, where it takes a long time before it is evaluated and might never be returned to the wildlife officer.
The +Wildlife Module contains elemental functionality to disperse wildlife and to effectively collect and analyze data to gain insight in wildlife presence.
Airside Pro +Wildlife: Everything a wildlife officer needs, integrated in one user-friendly software tool.
Compliant with ICAO regulations

2. On-going risk assessments of the wildlife strike hazard
3. Measures to minimize the likelihood of wildlife strikes.
Extensive collection of dispersal sounds
Individual performance optimization
+Wildlife species database
Dispersal method database
A complete database of dispersal categories is included with the possibility to customize this to your bird dispersal toolbox.
Exchange of data
To enable learning on a global scale, the exchange of anonymous data is possible with every airport in the world using Airside Pro.

Monitoring wildlife presence and behavior
Airside Pro offers wildlife officers to log four different wildlife situations: wildlife dispersal actions, dead animals, runway crossings and wildlife observations. The different reports are stored in the database for future analysis or direct sharing.
- Complete wildlife reporting
- ICAO compliant
- Enables detailed analysis

DISPERSAL
DISPERSAL
An action of a wildlife officer in dispersing animals. The effectiveness of dispersal tools can be evaluated overtime.
CORPSE
CORPSE
A corpse consists of a dead animal which potentially indicates a wildlife strike.
RUNWAY CROSSING
RUNWAY CROSSING
Animals crossing runways pose a serious risk to aircraft. Therefore it is important to gain insight on migration routes.
OBSERVATION
OBSERVATION
Observations of animals can quickly be logged in order to gain insight in bird presence.Comprehensive registration of events
- Fast logging
- Complete reporting
- Direct connection to database
Intuitive user interface enables ultrafast reporting
- Minimum amount of finger movement
- Artificial intelligent wildlife species shortlist
- Report effectiveness of dispersal methods
- Location and flight direction
- Optional remarks and photos
Statistics: An informational treasure
Occurance of selected species:
– During selected time periods
– During segments of a day or year
– On specific airport locations
Effect of dispersal techniques
Comparison with global data

Mobile statistics: Bringing real time knowledge to the wildlife officer

Airside Pro: For different users
Habitat manager
Habitat managers use Airside Pro to gain valuable insight in wildlife hotspots and review habitat modification actions.
Wildlife control trainer
Wildlife control trainers use Airside Pro to gain insight in performance of the team and effectiveness of their dispersal methods in relation to the existing animal species.
Legal officer
Legal officers use Airside Pro for liability protection and documentation of given airside situations from the past.
Airside operations manager
Airside operations managers use Airside Pro for a real time and comprehensive overview of the current situation and easy access to any airside situation from the past.
Airside operator
Airside operators use Airside Pro for a direct communication link to their colleagues without the need to use the radio.
Wildlife officer
Wildlife officers use Airside Pro to record their wildlife management actions in an ultrafast way, compared to using pen and paper.
The revolutionary Airside Pro Concept
Context
• Engaging the workforce
• Enhancing individual and team performance
• Modernizing airside management
Platform
• Tool for communication and data transfers
• Modules to expand functionality
• Ongoing updates and support
Technology
• Highly reliable cloud technology
• Real time connectivity
• Collect, visualize and export meaningful data
