Bihari develops system to prevent runway mishaps

Patna: Mirza Faizan, who was born and brought up in Patna, has carved a niche in aviation safety. He has developed a Ground Reality Information Processing System (GRIPS) to prevent runway accidents with cent per cent accuracy, which has been acclaimed worldwide.
Recently, Swissport UK recommended GRIPS to National Air Traffic Services at Birmingham International Airport. Anders Field, a Nasa scientist and inventor of ILLAC-IV, the world's first supercomputer, during his recent visit to the aerospace research lab in Bangalore said, "GRIPS is a better solution than any other solution for runway safety, for the fact that it does not depend on ground radar and any radio signals. It is actually a Ground Reality System."
Talking about the broad aspects of this system, Faizan told TOI over phone from Bangalore, "The entire runway is fitted with long-range cameras which take a picture every 30 seconds. If any foreign object is detected, the system sends live video feed to control tower and also the warning of presence of foreign object, along with its location on the runway."
Talking about the broad aspects of this system, Faizan told TOI over phone from Bangalore, "The entire runway is fitted with long-range cameras which take a picture every 30 seconds. If any foreign object is detected, the system sends live video feed to control tower and also the warning of presence of foreign object, along with its location on the runway."
25/06/11 Pranava K Chaudhary/Times of India

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