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Siemens serves Indian airports

Anupama Sushil - New Delhi

Siemens, the software technology giant, is now also into the creation of the aviation- related software that promises to ease operations at airport terminals and thereby help in smoothening the process, making it easier for passengers.

Speaking exclusively to Express TravelWorld, A S Viswanathan, executive vice president, global head - transportation and airports, Siemens Information Systems said, "Our job is to make passenger travel and airport handling simpler. We aim to make the job simpler for all parties involved. It is a whole chain, a combination of technology and process management."

He further added that the company has been working very closely at Bangalore and Delhi airports after it successfully installed its software at the new Hyderabad airport. According to him, the company facilitates and provides integration of all links starting from check-in to the last check-out required. The main aim, he said, is to provide an integrated system that displays a non-conflicting view of all the information from the airside, passenger, air-operations and ground. Further, he explained that the Indian airports are nowhere below the international standards and there is a continuous readiness and willingness to work towards maintaining standards. There is also a uniformity of process ensuring the highest standards of operations. The company, he added, is constantly creating solutions like mobile passenger solutions, biometric passenger processing and other cheaper and cost effective solutions for large, medium and small airports and an airport integration platform. Finally, the upcoming new airports in the next two years will allow them to develop better software.