Airports and Airlines

Slovenia Control, the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) for Slovenia, has selected Frequentis to upgrade the software of its Safety Nets for area and terminal control to provide enhanced airspace performance, safety and alerting functionalities. The Safety Nets system, known as PRISMA-SNET, is an essential module of Frequentis Comsoft’s PRISMA Air Traffic Management (ATM) automation suite.

Using both flight plan data and current position data, PRISMA-SNET provides air traffic controllers clear alerts of potential safety issues in time to take preventive action and is fully integrated into Slovenia Control’s ATM environment. The Safety Nets system also helps ensure safe takeoffs, transits and landings and detects deviations from planned course and altitude, depending on the flight data processing system (FDPS).

French Air Navigation Service Provider, DSNA (Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne), has selected Frequentis to supply its state-of-the-art Remote Digital Tower (RDT) solution in France. The solution, to be located in a Remote Tower Centre (RTC) in Toulouse will, in its first instance, manage air traffic for Tours Val De Loire Airport, over 500 kilometers away.

Based on the renowned smartVISION product from Frequentis, already operational in six countries, the RDT will allow Tours Val De Loire airport to preserve passenger traffic and ultimately to increase it three-fold. The solution will include on-site video technology at the airport, central equipment in the RTC in Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, with several working positions, and a test system for training.

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Düsseldorf airport has further extended the use of their departure manager. After seven successful years using the departure manager in Düsseldorf’s A-CDM implementation, the airport company assigned their affiliate company, SITA Airport IT GmbH, to procure the extension from ATRiCS, a member of the Frequentis Group.

Düsseldorf has been working with the extended DMAN functions since the start of 2021. ATRiCS, a member of the Frequentis Group, is proud to deliver this solution as a product in the Frequentis portfolio and is currently finalising new DMAN introduction projects at three other European airports.

ICAO and the MEVA III Member States have contracted Frequentis to continue the management of its Central America and Caribbean satellite satellite network services for an additional three-years, until 2025. The project is enhacing the reliability of the aeronautical telecommunications service, as well as allowing cost savings and bandwidth optimisation. 

The Frequentis MEVA network is made up of 18 nodes for 15 Air Navigation Service Providers at sites in the Caribbean, Central and North America, and is an important part of ICAO’s work to create a phased transition from legacy communication technology in the region, increasing its efficiency, while complying with the strict ATM requirements. The project included end-to-end 24/7 operation of the entire network.

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Naviair, the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) of Denmark will replace its current Clear-The-Sky (CTS) backup Air Traffic Management (ATM) system with a PRISMA backup solution from Frequentis Comsoft, capable of providing continuous traffic handling, for unlimited time periods. The project will form part of an expansion of the Remote Digital Tower (RDT) contract between Frequentis DFS Aerosense GmBH and Naviair.

This expansion of the RDT project will build upon the PRISMA APP solution integrated in the RDT system, currently being implemented for Billund Approach and Tower. It will include PRISMA Enroute for Naviair’s Area Control Centre (ACC) and APP for approach/tower units in Copenhagen, Billund and Roskilde airports.

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Multiple Remote Tower Modules develop at fast-pace and will eventually replace traditional air traffic control (ATC) towers. Located in a remote tower centre, the modules aim to allow the control of several different airports, with varying complexity, from a remote location. This will also allow the centralisation of air traffic services (ATS) and the combining of resources at different airports, providing efficiency gains.

Airspace deviations reported and resolved faster with Frequentis Comsoft

Luxembourg Air Navigation Administration (ANA Luxembourg) has enhanced its surveillance data quality, further supporting EUROCONTROL airspace regulations. The automated sensor recording, monitoring and evaluation system from Frequentis Comsoft increases the speed of detecting, reporting and resolving aircraft identification issues, subsequently improving airspace safety. All air navigation service providers (ANSPs) are responsible for demonstrating their adherence to current regulations and Frequentis Comsoft’s RAPS-SMD (Sensor monitoring display) fulfils this commitment in support of the Commission Implementing Regulation.

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Partnership for digitisation of airports around the world - more efficiency and sustainability

With T-Systems and Frequentis, two experts are now pooling their aviation expertise. The aim of the partnership is the far-reaching digitisation of airports for more efficient processes in the passenger area as well as in the airside and logistics area of the airport. The two companies signed their partnership agreement at the inter airport europe trade fair in Munich on 9 November 2021.

"When we connect the data of air traffic control with that of the airport operations centers, our customers, air traffic control, and airport operators can make their operational processes at airports even more efficient and environmentally friendly," says Karl Fesl, Director Airports at Frequentis. "As a result, both noise and CO2 emissions can be significantly reduced and punctuality increased. Together with T-Systems, we are a particularly strong team in this regard!"

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