The presence of wildlife on and near airports is a serious risk for the safety of aircraft. Managing this risk 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.

Bird Control Group developed a mobile application for airside personnel help disperse wildlife more effectively and to collect and analyze data in order to gain more insight in wildlife presence.

The Airside Pro software tool features innovative logging functionality to quickly and easily log any dispersal actions, runway crossings, dead animals, wildlife strikes and wildlife observations. These logs can include pictures and additional notes. The wireless connection sends the data directly to the central database.

Reporting used to be a time consuming and boring activity, keeping wildlife officers from their primary task. The reporting functionality in Airside Pro is designed to intuitively register events in the shortest possible time, saving valuable time.

The data generated by the reports becomes a valuable source of strategic information. Airside Pro offers an easy way to analyze large amounts of data. By visualizing the data in graphs, charts and heat maps it is easy to identify trends or critical hotspots. The raw data can be exported to Excel for further analysis. Statistics enable analysis of trends and changes in wildlife behavior. This information is useful for habitat managers and wildlife managers in evaluating their methods.

Besides facilitating bird controllers with big data, Airside Pro offers an interactive platform of information which facilitates real time communication and collaboration between airside personnel, management and external stakeholders to keeps everybody up to date with the actual airside situation.

• Maximize real time situational awareness
• Manage tasks, inspections and alerts
• Collect and visualize strategic data
• Exchange valuable knowledge with team members
• Export data for strategic and legal purposes