The SMRT Active Route Map Information System (stylized as STARiS) is a rail travel information

system developed in house by communications engineers from SMRT Corporation for its North South
Line and East West Line (NSEWL) trains in Singapore.[1] This system was officially announced on 7
November 2008 and firstly installed onboard a C151 train, set 053/054 for a 2-month trial. This was later
extended to other trains from February 2009.

History

The first STARiS was installed on a C151 trainset 053/054 for a 2-month trial. STARiS was later
extended to all other existing trains on the NSEWL. C151A trains had STARiS installed during the
manufacturing process. This version is based on the LTA font, symbols and based on a white background
with a separate VFD for displaying text located aside from the Active Route Map and 6 LED bulbs,
indicating which side(s) that train doors would open.

The next generation of STARiS, "STARiS version 2.0", has real-time multi-purpose displays that
features landmarks in the vicinity of a station when the train arrives at a station. Animated
advertisements are also available. STARiS 2.0 was presented during the Customer Experience Innovation
Conference on 21 January 2016. STARiS 2.0 are currently installed onboard all C151B and C151C trains,
which was equipped during the manufacturing process.[2] STARiS 2.0 was supposed to be retrofitted to
C651 trains during their refurbishment (which has been shelved in 2018) as well as all other existing
trains before the opening of Canberra MRT station, but it did not materialise. C751B trainset 321/322
used to have a trial version of "STARiS version 2.0" installed onboard car 3322 from late-2010, but it was
eventually removed in early 2016.

On 18 April 2019, an updated version of the original STARiS display was spotted onboard a
C151A trainset 511/512.[3][4] The new STARiS bears a new look, and has 3 provisional LED bulbs. 2 for
the future Brickland and Sungei Kadut stations on the North South Line, which are part of the 2040 Land
Transport Master Plan.[5] Another one more additional LED is for unknown. All C151A trains have
received the upgrade, while the rest of the other trains with the original STARiS were not upgraded as
they will be retired and replaced by Bombardier Movia CR151 trains by 2026.[6] Instead, stickers have
been pasted on the route maps of these trains to remind commuters that Canberra Station will not light
up, as it does not have a LED provisioned on the maps.[7]