Australia has commenced upgrading towers. The system is SAAB/Sensis and NavCanada. It is based on NavCanada software which has been substantially upgraded from number of subsystems into a fully integrated one. Broome, a procedural tower, was the first commissioned and is about as far as you can get from anywhere in Australia. Rockhampton was second and has radar for information only.
Adelaide and Melbourne will commission this year. Both have an associated Radar Terninal Control Unit. Melbourne also has a Surface Movement Guidance System integrated with it.
Each workstation has four touch screens with each station capable of operating any of the tower roles so controllers will be able to move to suit the runway mode.
The touch screens display the following:
TDM - Tower Data Management (electronic strips)
ODM - Operational Data Management (Lighting control, weather data, navaid monitoring, etc)
ESS - Electronic Surveillance System
Fourth screen in Brome, Rockhampton and Adelaide provides a bit of spare space to spread windows on but in Melbourne is used for the surface guidance.
All data entry is made through touch fields on the strips or pop up menus.