Remote Tower Solutions BY SEARIDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND NAVCANatm
Offering World-Class Service Our remote tower solution can be built
to your requirements, using a tested collaborative process that
tailors our technology to your environment. We work closely with
your team to custom-fit each system to your operation, configuring
hardware, customizing software, and developing new interfaces
adapted to your operational business processes. Choose to rely on
our experienced system-integration capabilities, or work jointly
with our team of engineers, integrators, technical support and
training personnel. Whatever your approach, our team will work with
your team to ensure a seamless integration.
Your Partners in Success Every ANSP has unique airspace and airport
demands, but we all share the common objective of safe, efficient,
cost-effective service. We can help you meet those goals.
NAVCANatm has a leading line of integrated air traffic management
products, applications and services operationally deployed at over
80 sites worldwide for safe, efficient and cost-effective air
traffic management. It is a division of NAV CANADA, with
headquarters based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Searidge Technologies is a leading provider of collaborative
airport surface management solutions. Exclusively focused on ANSPs,
airports and airlines, Searidge applies its innovative intelligent
video solutions to help airport stakeholders improve efficiency,
safety and security.
Together we offer:
• A proven track record and expertise in providing remote tower
technology solutions.
• Advanced video and tower automation products that are operational
today throughout Canada and the World.
• A single point of contact for all your solution needs. • A fully
integrated technical and operational approach.
For all inquiries about Remote Tower Solutions, please contact us
at:
Searidge Technologies Inc. and NAVCANatm 19 Camelot Drive Ottawa,
Ontario K2G 5W6
Phone (Ottawa): +1(613) 686-3988 Phone (Washington): +1(202)
350-9175 Toll Free: +1(866)-799-1555 By Fax: +1(613)-822-8009
email:
[email protected]
www.remotetower.com www.searidgetech.com www.navcanatm.com
An Integrated Solution The ability to maintain levels of air
traffic control service using remote tower solutions can provide
ANSPs with the flexibility they need to respond to budgetary and
other operational pressures. By integrating video surveillance
technology and NAVCANsuite air traffic management products,
operators will also see increased levels of safety, efficiency and
flexibility not found in a traditional tower operation.
An integrated information system ensures that all components are
using the same data – minimizing the controller’s workload, and
increasing safety by eliminating the number of manual inputs. This
architecture also allows for the same data to be available at the
local tower and at a remote location.
The system can automatically detect and alert the controller to any
unexpected movements through warnings on the strips and on the
surveillance display. Objects of interest are presented on the
video display at the touch of a strip or a radar target.
This integrated solution offers the following features:
• the ability to provide remote real-time surveillance of airport
operations; • remotely operated communications and airfield
lighting; • fully integrated airport control systems; • a remote
aviation weather observation system; • view and control of multiple
airports; and • the ability to integrate or interface with third
party systems installed at your site.
The cost-effective alternative for airport monitoring and
control
Advancing Current Methods of Operations Geographic location, low
air traffic movements, fluctuations in traffic volume, and budget
pressures are only some of the many challenges that airports and
Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) face with today’s
tower-centric model. At NAVCANatm and Searidge Technologies, we
recognize this and can play an integral role by providing
technology solutions that will advance your current method of
operation. When a traditional approach no longer makes sense, yet
airport control is still required, remote tower services may be the
solution.
The Keys to Remote Tower Success: Flexibility, Scalability and
Versatility Our Remote Tower solutions are scalable and
customizable options for providing airport control services from
geographically independent locations. Using the Searidge
Technologies’ real-time intelligent video platform, IntelliDARTM,
combined with NAVCANatm’s fully integrated suite of air traffic
management tools, this is your go-to system for a safer, more
flexible and economical all-in-one remote tower solution.
Our Remote Tower solutions are designed to address the unique
requirements of your airport operations, layout, traffic levels and
weather conditions by offering many benefits:
• improved levels of air traffic service at a lower cost; •
improved situational awareness in low-visibility conditions; • a
centralized, more streamlined service for multiple remote
airfields; • alternatives to new construction due to line-of-sight
limitations; • reduced capital expenditure requirements on new
towers
– i.e. build at a lower height; • greater staffing flexibility for
existing towers; • flexibility for planning and growth at larger
airports; and • making more efficient use of human and capital
resources.
A Phased Approach There are many factors that an ANSP must consider
in order to successfully deploy and operate a remote tower service,
including developing operational concepts, determining procedural
and system requirements, planning controller training, identifying
human-machine-interface constraints, and obtaining regulatory
certification.
In overcoming these challenges, adopting an evolutionary or phased
approach may be the best solution. A phased approach involves
developing a roadmap where the ultimate goal is a full remote
operation, but with several intermediate steps. Each step would
provide an immediate benefit to the airport or ANSP, and would move
the operation closer to full remote capability.
This phased approach to a remote tower solution addresses existing
physical tower limitations and provides immediate benefits, while
laying a technological, procedural and regulatory foundation for a
complete remote control service.
A remote tower solution can be adapted for many applications, all
of which can improve safety, reduce costs and encourage
interoperability. This is a viable and less expensive alternative
to building new tower facilities.
Remote towers can be ideally suited for:
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
• Runway blind-spots • Line-of-sight limitations
of old towers
• Manning towers during low traffic hours or seasons
A Customizable Solution A remote tower solution can be completely
customized to meet the operational needs of each airport.
Components may be added or subtracted to form a solution that best
fits budget and system requirements.
The most common configuration for the system is in single tower
operations, and depending on traffic volume, could include the
following features:
Surveillance • Searidge Intelligent Video, IntelliDAR™ and
ATC-Grade Video • Airport ground surveillance (radar, MLAT, and/or
video) • Area Surveillance (radar, MLAT, ADS-B)
Operational Systems in Use Today In some of the world’s largest and
busiest airports, operations are conducted without having full
line-of-sight visibility of the airport surface.
DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, Germany’s ANSP, decided not to build a
new tower, as they had done for the Frankfurt and Berlin Airport
expansions, when Munich Airport announced plans to construct a
third runway at a distance of more than four kilometeres from the
current tower building. Instead, DFS intends to use advanced video
surface management to augment their distant tower operation.
Malta Air Traffic Services is currently using intelligent video to
provide full situational awareness to its Apron Management Unit,
allowing them to safely and expeditiously manage traffic throughout
the apron area. This intelligent video system includes a full suite
of safety features to ensure controllers are presented with the
right information at the right time.
Intelligent video has also been commissioned at the Edmonton
International Airport in Canada. Combined with the advanced
surveillance and control capabilities of the fully integrated
NAVCANsuite of air traffic management tools, air traffic
controllers can use the intelligent video data to provide gap
coverage on the manoeuvring area. This system has met all the
necessary safety requirements for use in the air traffic control
tower.
ATM • NAVCANsuite products
and approach, and air field lighting information - NAVCANatis –
terminal information, local weather and operating runway
configuration for departing and arriving aircraft -NAVCANflow –
tactical planning tool for scheduling and sequencing
Communications • Communications – tower, ground. • VSCS
Other • Automatic weather reporting (AWOS) • ARCAL
NAVCANsuite Air Traffic Management System NAVCANsuite is a fully
customizable family of tower automation products providing fast and
reliable access to ATC information offered by NAVCANatm, and can be
seamlessly integrated with the Searidge intelligent video system.
NAVCANsuite offers a more robust, improved information toolkit
which controllers can access for positive air traffic control and
to make quick, safety-critical decisions. It is designed to
innovate and simplify the air traffic controllers’ workstation, and
features an integrated controller working position with up to four
touch-screen monitors that provide functionality such as electronic
flight strips, situational displays for enroute, terminal and
ground surveillance, real-time operational data displays, and
more.