EAST SYRACUSE, NY (PRNewswire/WorldTourismNews.eu) - Wide Area multilateration (WAM Sensis Corporation) deployment in the North Sea, off the coast of the coast of Scotland is now certified for controlling air traffic (ATC) by the civil aviation authority in the United Kingdom. NATS, leader in air navigation provider United Kingdom, air traffic controllers use very precise for improving the safety of air traffic in the airspace of oil rigs WAM monitoring using the same traditional standards and procedures as a radar system. This application is first system fully certified WAM industry to provide ATC for flight services in an environment of oil platform off the coast.
Each year, more than 25,000 flights helicopter carry half a million passengers from Aberdeen Airport and oil and gas in the North Sea by the airspace which is inaccessible to ground-based radar operations. Low-level radar coverage extends only 80 miles off the coast, forcing the controllers to depend on positional radio driver updated every 10 minutes. As a result, established flight paths are often more efficient roads due to the lack of oversight. Deploy traditional radar is an effective and economic solution because of limitations of performance at low initial flight and lifecycle costs to install radars on oil rigs.
In order to increase safety and efficiency of operations of the helicopter in the North Sea, the NATS required innovative and reliable solution allowing high precision surveillance today everything is ready for tomorrow's technologies such as surveillance of persons with automatic load - Broadcast (ADS - B). NATS services chose Sensis WAM to cover the 25,000 square kilometres of the North Sea, for sensors placed on oil platforms 16, including platform multilateration floating with changes of positional of up to 100 meters. The system is able to track flights using the Mode S, ADS - B or mode a and C, monitor without any new avionics.
"Based in Aberdeen Airport air traffic controllers now use precise monitoring of Sensis WAM similarly traditional radar to monitor the coast flights in all weather conditions", said John Mayhew, Director General NATS Aberdeen. "The result is a significant improvement of flight safety in the region which is beyond the ground radar coverage."
Robert Paterson, health, security and employment with Oil & Gas United Kingdom Director welcomed the launch adding: "I am very happy to see this system going live is a considerable advance safety helicopter."
Sensis multilateration uses multiple sensors little maintenance, non-rotating to triangulate aircraft location based on transponder signals provide information specifies aircraft position and identification, irrespective of the conditions weather air traffic controllers. With a higher rate to update and more positional accuracy than traditional radar, Sensis multilateration provides effective surveillance for greater security, capacity and the efficiency of airspace and airports. With its advanced processing techniques, Sensis multilateration uses the minimum number of sensors for a less complex lifecycle, low-cost solution. In addition, each sensor deployed by Sensis also supports ADS - B, providing an infrastructure which is ready for the supervision of today need and tomorrow is avionics - a cost-effective solution in the long term.
"Sensis is pioneer of the concept of use WAM surveillance flights oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico with helicopter flight system trial to NASA," said Ken Kaminski, vice President and General Manager of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. "With the system of the North Sea becomes the first of its kind to be certified for air traffic control, we again demonstrated WAM as a solution for effective and efficient monitoring these harsh environments.
Near 100 sites around the world have chosen Sensis multilateration to improve safety, efficiency, and cost savings through monitoring of the airport surface, extended monitoring and management of the airport surface.
For WAM on North Sea system press release of the NATS published earlier today, visit http://www.nats.co.uk/news/.
ON THE SENSIS CORPORATION
Sensis Corporation offers sensors technology simulation and modelling for providers of air navigation in the world, the civil aviation authorities, airports, airlines and military companies. Sensis Corporation solutions are deployed worldwide. For more information about the Sensis Corporation, visit www.sensis.com.
ON NAT
NATS handled flights from 2.2 million in 2009, covering the United Kingdom and East of the North Atlantic and transported more than 200 million passengers safely by some of the busiest and most complex space air in the world. NATS provides air traffic centres Swanwick Hampshire and Prestwick, Ayrshire control. NATS is the commercial activity of NATS and provides services in 15 UK, including Aberdeen, Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports and provides a range of other services to control traffic, air traffic, engineering, consultancy services aviation data and ATC training the United Kingdom and overseas customers. In addition to the provision of services of the ATC at Aberdeen Airport, NATS offers specialized helicopter services support the petroleum and gas UK the coast is United Kingdom, of East Anglia in the South Shetland Islands beyond northern. For more information, visit www.nats.co.uk.
OIL & GAS UK
Oil & gas UK is the main representative organisation for the UK oil and gas industry. Its members are companies authorized by the Government for exploration and production of oil and gas in the waters of the UK and those that form part any industry supply chain. For more information, visit www.oilandgasuk.co.uk.
SOURCE Sensis Corporation
CONTACT: Rob Conrad, Sensis Corporation, + 1-315-634-3139 or + 1-315-751-3646, rconrad@sensis.com
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