Speaker Biograghy: Stephen is one of DAA’s Lead IT Programme Managers performing both project and programme management within the PMO. Since joining the DAA in 2010, Stephen has worked on a vast array of IT projects and solutions to assist the operation in enterprise business intelligence, taxi management, queue measurement and management, automated boarder control, mobile technology, smartphone app design and integrated communications, to name but a few.


Day 1 - 10 March
Session: Management & Operations

15:50 - 16:15 - Making the invisible visible – mobile vehicle ground radar
Synopsis: DAA has significant safety responsibilities when managing the airfield of the Dublin Airport campus. DAA, in conjunction with Saab, began the development of a mobile version of Ground Radar, which has been instrumental in addressing a series of recommendations provided in a past Aviation Regulatory Audit. This audit suggested that a solution should be provided to assist vehicle ground movements on the airfield during periods of low visibility. This technology has been successfully trialled and installed in five of the fire station rescue vehicles with the vision to roll out to many other vehicles that operate on the airfield.

Audience will learn:

• The operational challenges of low visibility on the airfield
• The ‘old’ procedures the fire station respondents must follow when locating an aircraft in distress during low visibility
• How using standard equipment that airports already have can transform how a business unit operates
• How the DAA IT team and Saab deployed these mobile devices in a secure and robust fashion
• What next – using an agile and iterative approach to further improve this solution