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The Air Traffic Control Tower of the Future Doesn't Include Humans

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-the-machine-handle-it dept.

CravenRaven76 writes: Sweden is testing the future of air traffic control at Ornskoldsvik Airport. An 80 foot tall unmanned tower at the airport houses 14 high-definition cameras to help controllers survey the site with better-than-human vision. Video from the cameras is transmitted to Sunvsal Airport, where a controller guides the planes. Potential future plans include grouping every airport controller together at distant facilities in order to save costs of running multiple air traffic control towers.

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  1. Re:Why human in the loop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because they need to relay verbal commands and respond to certain calls which may not be easily recognisable.

    Have you ever heard how garbled a radio is? Imagine running voice recognition on that.

  2. It's "Sundsvall", not "Sunvsal". by Trracer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nice to see a story about stuff around my neighbourhood. Too bad they got the name wrong tho :(

    --
    English is not my first language, so cut me some slack -: Om du kan lasa det har sa kan du Svenska :-