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Air Traffic Management

Digital. Sustainable. Safe.

A prospering aviation industry is an important contributor to economic success. Aviation contributes to 3.5 trillion USD in GDP worldwide, and employs a workforce of 87 million individuals. It enables trade, connect people and makes economies prosper. Building on 75+ years of experience in ATC, Frequentis Air Traffic Management (ATM) helps Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) worldwide deliver safer and more secure capacity for airspace users in a cost-efficient way.

In focus

UPCOMING EVENTS

Overview

We enable the digital transformation of ATM

Frequentis has installed around 25,000 ATM operator positions throughout the world and can draw on enormous reserves of project know-how built through numerous international engagements. Around 300+ customers in approximately 150 countries rely on the know-how and experience of Frequentis, ensuring the safety of 95% of the world’s passengers and aircraft.

We supply the autonomous ATM ecosystem for a safer, secure and sustainable world.

Frequentis is leading the way with innovative solutions for traffic synchronisation and collaboration ensuring safety always comes first. This comprises service-based voice, data and recording solutions, ATM-grade networks, virtualised private cloud and IP-based collaboration tools.

Growing the Frequentis group

In 2020, Frequentis acquired a 51 per cent share in ATM automation technology supplier ATRiCS and in 2021 acquired the ATC Solutions business unit and the unit for traffic synchronisation (Orthogon) from L3Harris. These acquisitions extend Frequentis’ technical offering and customer base and add an even broader range of solutions to its extensive ATM portfolio. Frequentis is now a leading provider of traffic synchronisation solutions, both en-route and on the ground with arrival- and departure management products, solutions for dynamic capacity balancing for airports, routing, guidance, and A-SMGCS. These solutions are capable of reducing air traffic controller workload and carbon emissions.

Our customers

ATM operations

Tower

Frequentis Digital Tower solutions help ANSPs and airport operators manage IFR and VFR operations reliably, safely and efficiently – both on site and remotely. Proven in use around the world, the modular solutions optimise traffic, cut emissions, maximise productivity, and integrate easily with existing technology.

Centre

The PRISMA system for ATM automation supports all air navigation service functions, from pre-flight planning to real-time situational awareness, for both manned and UAS traffic. PRISMA provides automation functions to help ANSPs provide services including approach control, flight information and alerting, ultimately supporting increased safety and efficiency.

UTM

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now a permanent fixture: their usage is anticipated to grow rapidly in the coming years. As an early responder to the new challenges of rising UAV traffic, Frequentis continues to create innovative solutions that help airports and ANSPs overcome these challenges.

Traffic Sync

Ensuring effective Air Traffic Management operations at and around airports today calls for innovative, perhaps even ground-breaking procedures and decision-support systems. Globally, the ICAO Aviation System Block Upgrades (ASBU) provide an appropriate blueprint. At the European level, the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programme is blazing a trail for ATM modernisation and greener operations.

Airport Airside

Frequentis airport solutions allow for the most effective collaboration between airports and their partners to achieve airport operational performance objectives. In particular, our portfolio supports local airport collaborative decision-making (A-CDM) as well as the implementation of airport operations control centres (APOC) and airport operations plans (AOP).

Digital services

Communication

Frequentis is acknowledged as the number one supplier for safety critical communication systems globally. Trusted and proven by more than 25,000 air traffic controllers, and guiding the way to new operational concepts like virtual centres and area control contingency solutions the Frequentis communication solutions set the benchmark among controllers. Virtualisation, cloud-based systems and intelligent networks are the foundation of the modern IT-based ATM technologies.

Data

Digital data transformation is at the heart of the new ATM. Digital data and autonomous systems are the future for managing both the traditional aircraft and the new entrants. Frequentis has been supporting the transition from AIS to AIM for decades and has been providing the very first ATM cloud-based data service as part of the European Aeronautical Database for almost 20 years. The digital revolution of ATM has already started.

Surveillance

Surveillance lies at the heart of air traffic management. Optimised surveillance infrastructure allows routes to be brought closer together resulting in an increase of capacity. Frequentis looks back on a long history of experience with the supply of innovative surveillance solutions. The product portfolio includes ADS-B sensors, multilateration systems, surveillance data distribution and processing systems, trackers and surveillance displays.

Cloud infrastructure

Networks

Providing the best results in Air Traffic Management (ATM) communications and keeping aviation passengers safe requires a solution designed for the challenges of a modern air traffic management network. vitalsphere provides a level of safety and end-to-end performance not available from conventional networks. By brokering network capacity between ATM-specific applications and non-ATM specialised backbone networks, vitalsphere reduces total cost of ownership and allows for bandwidth savings of up to 90%.

Digital Platform

With ATM players becoming more and more connected, a shared information space is becoming crucial for safe, secure and efficient operations. The digital age transforms existing, monolithic applications into shared services, enabling backend integration of data and and the same time front-end integration into an integrated controller working position.

Services

News

Skyway Mag: Accelerated Drone Management

Drone markets are reshaping airspace, increasing its complexity. Thomas Pilsl, our Vice President New Market Solutions, explained to Skyway Magazine why new technologies should be adopted to ensure safety, situational awareness, and compliance. Read the article in full on page 32-33, issue 78, AW23.

2023-09-26

Estonia revolutionises drone flying as FREQUENTIS state-of-the-art UTM suite is put into operation

Frequentis Uncrewed Traffic Management (UTM) suite is fully operational in Estonia in just seven months
Newly implemented, cloud-based UTM suite will stimulate development of innovative drone-related services, further driving drone industry growth
UTM suite allows secure data exchange and access to UTM services, including operator registration, flight authorisation and geo awareness service
Support for police and military operations to enable drone missions

Drone operators in Estonia can now fully utilise the Frequentis UTM suite covering services and applications, implemented for Estonian Air Navigation Services (EANS). Users now have access to up-to-date drone flight information, can register themselves as operators and securely exchange data, monitor airspace conditions, file flight plans, and even apply for take-off clearance. This solution marks a significant milestone in the development of uncrewed aviation services in Estonia and will transform the drone flying experience.

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2023-09-25

Fuelling a greener future

Innovative procedures and advanced decision-support tools will contribute to reducing airspace emissions. We spoke to ATM magazine about the solutions the aviation industry need to implement.

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2023-09-18

FREQUENTIS provides Norway with network solution for efficient airspace management

Norwegian Avinor selects Frequentis Advanced Network Management System (Advanced-NMS) for total operational awareness
Real-time performance monitoring will strengthen overall security of Avinor’s operations
Flexible and scalable solution to evolve with customer demands

The Frequentis Advanced-NMS solution will enable Avinor, the Norwegian Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), to monitor their growing and complex countrywide infrastructure from one centralised tool, as well as enable fast, proactive, and effective responses to unplanned outages and emergency situations. It will also provide real-time performance monitoring of the quality of each system and will strengthen the overall security of Avinor’s operations. Thanks to the solution’s scalability, it can grow hand in hand with the development of their environment, enabling its use for decades to come.

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2023-09-13

FREQUENTIS to ensure greater airspace safety and capacity for EUROCONTROL MUAC fallback operations

Safety and airspace capacity will be enhanced at one of Europe’s busiest and most complex airspaces
The Fallback Controller Working Position (CWP) follows Single European Sky open data interface principles
Based on the Frequentis OneATM user interface framework ODS Open Platform, the CWP ensures resilient operations even at high traffic volumes

EUROCONTROL, MUAC, one of the Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) of four EUROCONTROL member states – Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, selected Frequentis to provide its CWP as part of the MUAC fallback automation system. To ensure a high airspace capacity during fallback operations, while maintaining safety levels, EUROCONTROL's primary CWP will be mirrored by the fallback system, enabling controller requirements to be met in a similar way.

2023-08-30

FREQUENTIS provides Airways New Zealand with airspace safety enhancement

The new message handling system supports the latest standards and enables better performance in a virtual environment
Contingency solution guarantees continuation of services, even in the event of an outage

Airways Corporation New Zealand Limited (Airways) have again selected Frequentis message handling system, AIDA-NG, for the modernisation of its existing AMHS (Air traffic services Message Handling System) network.

New features for email, webmail, routing, and new messaging and conversion functions were added during the update. Three systems, located in Christchurch and Auckland, are increasing New Zealand's flight safety benefits with a contingency concept that allows Airways to maximise a continuation of aeronautical messaging services with minimum disruption of service, even in the event of a sudden loss of the main site.

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2023-08-09

Canada enhances airspace communication with FREQUENTIS X10

First Frequentis X10 Voice Communication System in the Americas
ADM Aéroports de Montréal has implemented future-proof operations with Frequentis’ service-oriented voice communication system (VCS)
Frequentis ED137-compliant X10 VCS provides most intuitive Human Machine Interface (HMI) for airport operators
Enhanced safety via X10 in case of emergency evacuation of the NAV CANADA tower

Canadian ADM Aéroports de Montréal selected Frequentis’ innovative X10 VCS to enhance airspace communication for the Apron Management Section (AMS) at YUL Montréal-Trudeau International Airport in Canada. The system is operated by ADM, however, NAV CANADA, the air navigation service provider of Canada, will also share access and operate radio and telephone resources, as a contingency solution in case of emergency tower evacuation.

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2023-07-27

FREQUENTIS to implement drone management solution in Lithuania

The Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) of Lithuania, has selected Frequentis to provide its proven UTM solution for the safe, efficient, and conformant introduction of drones into Lithuanian airspace.

Frequentis will provide Oro Navigacija with a UTM suite including Common Information Services (CIS) functionality for real-time, shared situational awareness and information exchange. The solution will also include cloud-based UTM Airspace Manager and UTM Operation Manager applications for both pilots and drone operators to log, manage, and visualise all flight plans and requests. The UTM solution is fully compliant with U-space regulation by covering U-space services and an extended set of additional UTM services.

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Drone alerting system

Our drone data sharing project with Norwegian ANSP, Avinor, won the ATM Excellence Award at Airspace World in Geneva in March 2023. This article in the June issue of ATM Magazine tells the full story.

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2023-06-05

One year of A-SMGCS Level 4 operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport, UAE

Automation solution provides airport with operational and safety benefits

Cooperation between Global Air Navigation Services (GANS) and ATRiCS has reduced runway incursions, flight delays and taxi time
Fully automated conflict detection and resolution between aircraft and vehicles
Benefits for airline operators at Abu Dhabi International Airport, including Etihad Airways

Global Air Navigation Services (GANS) and ATRiCS, a member of the Frequentis Group, have delivered operational and safety benefits to Abu Dhabi Airports, since the implementation of the ATRiCS TowerPad system (T-PAD) on 7 March 2022, which applies Level 4 Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS).