OREANDA-NEWS. On 29 January 2008 the automatic announcements system’s (AAS) coverage expanded at Moscow Domodedovo international airport: the system was placed into service at VIP and business halls.

The main AAS function is to generate speech announcements for passengers in the terminal concerning such events as passenger registration and baggage check-in, flight boarding, baggage claim, arrivals, delays, and flight cancellations.

The system functions at domestic and international carriers’ VIP and business halls, at Silver lounge, Austrian Airlineas and British Airways business halls. The system generates announcements in 15 languages: Azerbaijanian, Armenian, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Kirghiz, Chinese, German, Norwegian, Thai, Uzbek, Ukranian, French, Japanese and Hindi.

Information announcements in national languages will make it more convenient for foreign passengers to stay at the airport, especially for those who do not speak Russian and English.

The Automatic Announcement System is a unique solution and a product of partnership between Russian and foreign companies. The system is unique in that it is capable of multi-stream broadcasting (simultaneous broadcasting of up to 16 messages in various terminal zones), it can broadcast in an unlimited number of languages, it has distributed client-server architecture, and it has an enhanced fault tolerance ensured by a multi-level redundancy mechanism.