As airports become busier and more complex, Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) are being deployed to address the serious risk of runway incursions by aircraft and airport vehicles, especially in reduced visibility conditions. Cooperative surveillance, such as multilateration and ADS-B, provides better coverage, more accurate identification and improved resilience to inclement weather when compared to surface movement radar (SMR).

Era’s proven and widely installed MSS delivers the critical surveillance required for today’s A-SMGCS. The system integrates multilateration and ADS-B position data, is fully compatible with all relevant standards (such as EUROCAE ED-117) and interfaces with any A-SMGCS application. Era’s unique ability to combine distributed timing architecture based on GPS or on reference transponders with central timing architecture, ideally suited to complex airport layouts, ensures that each system can be optimized to the unique requirements and constraints of the airport.

Squid by Era vehicle transponders, easily deployed on tugs, fire appliances, cars and any other vehicles around the airport, allow each vehicle to be uniquely identified on tower displays and fully integrated into the A-SMGCS solution.

“Over the years, Era has successfully deployed their multilateration and ADS-B technology in a number of applications and sites throughout Spain.  Era systems meet our demanding performance requirements, the reliability of the Era solutions is well-established, and they have also consistently demonstrated their ability to deliver and commission these systems to our satisfaction.”

- Jose Mota Salvador, Head of the Radar Department, AENA

Case Study: Amsterdam, Beijing, Copenhagen