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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.
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.