Success story: Oman, countrywide advanced ATM systems

The project provides approach control services at the Muscat and Salalah International Airports, and a backup system for Muscat and Salalah International Airports and four other regional airports.

Indra was awarded with a turnkey project to supply an advanced automated air traffic management system that encompassed the following components:

   • Five ATC systems with 112 positions

   • Two contingency and training centers

   • Eight control towers with 48 positions

   • Three 360º simulators

   • Two A-SMGCS with three SMR and two MLAT systems

   • VHF radio systems and VCCS with 132 positions

   • A nationwide meteorological system

   • ANS Billing Systems

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Success story: 80% of India’s airspace is managed with Indra surveillance systems

Indra provided 38 automation systems for 38 airports in four different configurations for tower, approach and en-route operations. The result is that 80% of Indian airspace is managed with Indra surveillance systems. This new project includes:

   • Kolkata ACC - System capable of 4D trajectory calculation enhanced with advance safety net features which detects conflicts and alerts controllers

   • Delhi ACC - ATM automation with over 140 positions for en-route, approach and tower plus one ATM backup system running in parallel with the operational system and one ATM training and SIM

   • Four integrated ATM Training Simulators (IATS) in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai Airports, and can be used as backup centers

Additionally, Indra implemented nine MSSR mode S at Chennai, Bellary, Vizag, Porbandar, Bhopal, Udaipur, Jharsuguda, Kolkata and Katihar

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Success story: over 60% of China’s airspace is covered with Indra technology

Control of airspace of over eight different provinces in the country.

The current master plan for Shangai-Pudong calls for expanding the infrastructure, increasing its capacity to eighty million passengers per year and the possibility of handling six million tons of air cargo.

Indra deployed the following systems:

   • Three control centers, Urumqi, Chengdu, and Xian

   • Over 200 controller working positions

   • Forty-four radar stations:

      • Thirty-one MSSR mode S and one PSR

      • Eight mobile radars (in operation since Olympic Games Beijing 2008)

      • Four SMR radars

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Success story: Saudi Arabia becomes a global hub

Indra was appointed to provide the latest generation of ATC systems including:

   • Upgrade of the two control centers in Jeddah and Riyadh that manage en-route flights for the country's entire airspace

   • Upgrade of the two approach control centers in Dammam and Abha that service the airports

   • Deployment of tower control systems in twenty airports, including the four major international facilities at Jeddah, Riyadh, Abha and Dammam

   • Training of many Saudi traffic controllers, engineers and technicians at the final stage of the project

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Success story: Colombia, modernization of ATC and survelliance systems

Installation and commissioning CNS-ATM system for the El Dorado International Airport (Bogotá) including automation, communication, surveillance and navigation aid systems for the management of in-flight and flight approach air traffic control, as well as airport-ground control.

Indra delivered the following systems and services:

   • Deployment of ATM and tower systems with 56 CWP, of which 37 manage flight paths and approaches and 13 manage control tower operations

   • The control tower also has an automated Level 2 system for surveillance and guidance of aircraft ground traffic in the airport (A-SMGCS)

   • Implementation of controller-pilot radio communications systems and an ILS CAT III

   • Installation of an SMR in the control tower, ADS-B stations and a multilateration network that also covers approaches to the airport

   • Supply of GAREX VCS and the NEPTUNO and POSEIDON voice and video recorders

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Success story: Switzerland, ILS to improve capacity and solve signal reflection

Indra, together with skyguide, have developed pioneering solutions such as the ultra-wide ILS Localizer for Zürich Airport and Reduced Coverage for Geneva Airport.

Zürich had experienced massive traffic growth and needed to increase the runway efficiency. We developed the world’s first 32-element ultra-wide localizer. As the localizer becomes wider, the sensitive area is narrower, which allows ILS holding points and movements of large aircraft (such as Airbus A380) closer to the runway under low-visibility operations. This resulted in a 20% runway capacity increase.

In Geneva, a new building in the surroundings would reflect the signals from the current ILS, seriously impacting signal performance, which meant Geneva Airport could no longer operate at normal levels under low-visibility conditions. The solution was a uniquely designed system with optimized signals to avoid reflections from the new building. This development was partly financed by EUROCONTROL, and enabled Geneva Airport to return to Category III performance in a matter of a few months.

Airlines reported that the so-called reduced coverage solution actually outperformed the previous system.

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Success story: Central America, modernization of ATC and surveillance systems

More than seventeen radar sites deployed, multiple remote locations for controlling and monitoring the units, together with multiple and redundant connections for data provision to several air traffic management systems.

COCESNA became one of the first ANSPs equipped with Mode S technology in the MSSR systems. They became pioneers in the use of this cutting-edge technology and allowing its air traffic controllers to benefit from the advantages provided in terms of safety and capacity increase.

The solution offers a wide range of advantages such as detection, resolution, exploitation of Mode S, design for constant upgrade and continuity of data provision, while at the same time minimizing operation and maintenance operations.

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Success story: modernization of the radar network in Australia

Indra provided:

   • Eleven en-route radars

   • Transportable radar systems for interim surveillance services

   • Logistical support services to maintain the radars to 2030

The MSSR mode S radars installed are the most advanced surveillance systems in the market.

The new equipment offers increased reliability and, through the inclusion of Mode S capability, delivers greater accuracy.

 Significant reduction of the maintenance as the integration of test and supervision units allows remote maintenance.

Improvement in remote control and monitoring of far-off locations.

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Success story: Indra improves the surveillance infrastructure of Sweden

Framework agreement contract for PSR L-band radars, PSR S-band radars and MSSR mode S radars.

Supports and improves en-route, approach and landing manoeuvres at several locations in the country.

Indra provided the following systems and services:

   • Five MSSR mode S radar stations

   • One PSR L-Band co-mounted with MSSR mode S station

   • One PSR S-Band co-mounted with MSSR S

   • SLA and repair services included

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Success story: Full-IP Voice Program in Central America

Since 2015, Indra has deployed several GAREX 300 VCSs platforms within the voice switch renovation program requested by COCESNA (Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services). These contracts required a modern, flexible and field proven system for air traffic communications with maximum operational flexibility by utilizing modular configuration concepts.

Each component of the system is a network node, which operates autonomously.

The first project was the installation of GAREX 300 in CENAMER ACC, which is responsible of the en-route and approach services in Honduras. Since it went live in 2015, users and engineers gladly welcomed the new capabilities offered by the IP technology.

Currently the program is still renovating not only VCS but also radios, network and recorders. Additionally, as one of the cores of Indra, the capability for a global operation with automation system has been included.

GAREX 300 VCS provides a seamless integration and smooth transition with new IP and former legacy environments.

•   Solutions

Natively IP next-gen voice solution

Modernization of the control centers and international airports with full-VoIP VCS systems in Central America ACCs.

The solutions are built with purely IP voice switches but also able to be integrated to the existing legacy VCSs and communication infrastructure, easing the smooth migration towards IP.

In addition, the Controller Working Position was integrated with COCESNA’s Automation System (AIRCON), in terms of common sectorization.

•   Benefits

Interoperability, digitalization and simplification in Central American air traffic control

GAREX 300 provides COCESNA with short, mid and long-term benefits thanks to:

   -   Immediate communications between controllers and resource sharing across borders.

   -   Digital infrastructures and extensive use of commercial components to enable future virtual communication services.

   -   Easier transfer of flow and workload  reduction while maintaining the highest levels of air traffic.

•   Results

Real-time adaptation to workload and contingencies

GAREX 300 integrates the powerful facility named airspace dynamic resectorization.

The feature provides the capability to dynamically reconfigure logical users (control sectors) to physical positions (Sector Control Units- SCU) at any moment.

Thus, the resources can be merged in one or more consoles in order to adapt to the changing operational traffic load.

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Success story: IP Communications Network in Panama

Within the ATM infrastructure renovation program requested by AERONAUTICA (Civil Aviation Authority of Panama), Indra has installed in Panamá Howard APP/ACC the GAREX 300 VCS together with the automation system and the radios. The operative concept obtained with this installation is summarized as follows:

•   The new center allows unfolding the approach and route control to absorb more traffic and reinforce the position of its airports as a regional hub.

•   Controllers will rely on the latest generation Indra Air Automation and Communication system to order traffic with maximum efficiency.

•   Indra has deployed an IP communications system to make it easier for the CAA to continue improving and reinforce the air traffic system of Panama.

•   The system was installed in Howard, near to the Pacific International Airport, with the objective of establishing the communications in the approach to all the airports. With this new system, the workload of Albrook ACC has been drastically reduced. The GAREX voice switch installed in Howard APP/ACC is ready to take over the communications services for all Panama’s airspace in case of contingency.

Key features

   -   End-to-end VoIP architecture

   -   Field-Proven Reliability

   -   Seamless Transition from Legacy to IP

   -   Advanced Integration with ATC Systems

   -   Dynamic Airspace Sectorisation

•   Solutions

   -   Natively IP next-gen voice solution

   -   The purely IP voice switch is integrated with the new IP communications network and the existing legacy communication infrastructure, easing the smooth migration towards IP.

   -   Remote CWPs deployed in four external airports.

   -   ED-137B IP radios to cover all Country.

   -   Analog lines transported and shared via WAN (Layer 3).

   -   Complete integration with radios, ground communications, a recorder and an automation system.

•   Benefits

Interoperability, digitalization and simplification in the air traffic control in Panama GAREX 300 provides AERONAUTICA with short, mid and long-term benefits thanks to:

   -   Immediate communications between controllers and resource sharing across borders.

   -   Digital infrastructures and extensive use of commercial components to enable future virtual communication services.

   -   Easier transfer of flow and workload reduction while maintaining the highest levels of air traffic.

•   Results

Real-time adaptation to workload and contingencies

GAREX 300 integrates the powerful facility named airspace dynamic resectorization.

The feature provides the capability to dynamically reconfigure logical users (control sectors) to physical positions (Sector Control Units- SCU) at any moment.

Thus, the resources can be merged in one or more consoles in order to adapt to the changing operational traffic load.

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Success story: COMETA® Program in Spain

COMETA® is the voice switch renovation program designed by ENAIRE (the air navigation and aeronautical information service provider in Spain), aimed to provide maximum operational flexibility by utilizing modular configuration concepts.

Since Indra started the project, two centers went operational (Canary Islands and Valencia) while three are currently in migration phase.

The architectural key of the project is enabling each component of the system to be a network node that operates autonomously.

The dual and dissimilar architecture plus the field-proven design results in an outstanding reliability and availability. In addition, due to the full-IP and standards-based design, it deeply eases the maintainability.

Not only does COMETA® adeptly manage both analog and digital signaling methods but also encompasses state-ofthe-art VoIP capability.

All these previous features provide a seamless integration and smooth transition with new IP and former legacy environments.

Key features

   -   Dual end-to-end VoIP architecture

   -   EUROCAE’s ED-137 standard compliant

   -   Dissimilar software implementations

   -   Diverse hardware solution

   -   Field-proven reliability

   -   Seamless transition from Legacy to IP

   -   Advanced integration with ATC systems

   -   Dynamic Airspace sectorization

•   Solutions

Natively IP next-gen voice solution

Dual and dissimilar full-VoIP VCS in ENAIRE ACCs. The solution is built with two voice switches, which are completely diverse both in HW and in SW, but also able to be integrated to the existing legacy VCSs and communication infrastructure, easing the smooth migration towards IP.

In addition, the Controller Working Position was integrated with ENAIRE’s Automation System (SACTA), in terms of common sectorization, and also in equipment (same workstation can be shared between the two systems).

•   Benefits

   -   Interoperability, digitalization and simplification in Spanish air traffic control

   -   COMETA® provides Enaire with short, mid and long-term benefits thanks to:

   -   Immediate communications between controllers and resource sharing across borders.

   -   Digital infrastructures and extensive use of commercial components to enable future virtual communication services.

   -   Easier transfer of flow and workload reduction while maintaining the highest levels of air traffic.

•   Results

Real-time adaptation to workload and contingencies

COMETA® integrates the powerful facility named airspace dynamic resectorization.

The feature provides the capability to dynamically reconfigure logical users (control sectors) to physical positions (Sector Control Units- SCU) at any moment.

Thus, the resources can be merged in one or more consoles in order to adapt to the changing operational traffic load.

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