Air Traffic Management Suite
| Company | Ansart |
|---|---|
| Product code | solutions for Ground/Tower/Approach/ACC/A-SMGCS |
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ANSART’s Air Traffic Management (ANSATM) Suite is a modern, scalable solution tailored to the needs of airports, Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), and Flight Information Services (FIS). Whether deployed in server-based or serverless configurations, the system ensures high availability, performance, and reliability across all operational conditions.
With integrated safety nets, flexible controller interfaces, and advanced surveillance and flight data processing, the ANSATM Suite provides a mission-critical backbone for managing controlled and uncontrolled airspace.
Architecture and Deployment
The Air Traffic Management Suite is built on a modular, service-oriented architecture that ensures high availability, scalability, and ease of integration with existing ATM infrastructures. Each subsystem—Surveillance Data Processing (SDP), Flight Data Processing (FDP), Controller Working Positions (CWP), Electronic Flight Strips (EFS), and Safety Nets—can operate independently or as part of a fully integrated solution.
The system supports redundant configurations at all levels, ensuring fault tolerance and continuous operations in mission-critical environments. Flexible deployment options allow the Suite to run on dedicated servers, virtualized environments, or cloud-based infrastructures, adapting to diverse customer requirements and future technology shifts.
Designed with open standards (ICAO, EUROCONTROL, ASTERIX, OLDI, SWIM readiness), the architecture allows seamless connectivity with external systems such as AFTN/AMHS, meteorological services, surveillance sensors, and national or regional ATC networks.
System Capacity
The Air Traffic Management Suite in the basic configuration provide the following capacity, shown in the table below:
| Basic configuration server-based architecture | Basic configuration serverless architecture | |
| Number of operational working positions | Up to 8 | Up to 4 |
| Surveillance data processing area | 350×350 NM | 200×200 NM |
| Number of simultaneously processed aircraft tracks | Up to 500 | Up to 300 |
| Number of simultaneously processed flight plans | Up to 1000 | Up to 500 |
| Number of connected external data sources (surveillance sources, weather radar, AWOS, AMHS, AFTN, GGDL. Etc.)
|
Up to 7 | Up to 7 |
Reliability
The system is designed with a comprehensive redundancy concept to ensure continuous operation and fault tolerance. Redundancy is implemented at multiple levels:
- Equipment redundancy – all critical servers, processors, and network components are duplicated to eliminate single points of failure.
- LAN redundancy – dual independent network paths guarantee seamless data transfer even in case of network disruption.
- Redundancy of data inputs – multiple parallel surveillance and flight data sources are integrated, ensuring uninterrupted information flow.
- Workstation interchangeability – any controller or supervisor position can take over the tasks of another in case of failure.
- Data redundancy – all operational and recorded data is stored on mirrored storage systems for reliability and recovery.
- Information Security – the system is protected by multi-layer cybersecurity measures, including role-based access control, authentication, encrypted communications, firewalls, and intrusion detection. Security policies comply with ICAO and EUROCAE standards, ensuring integrity, confidentiality, and availability of operational data.
This layered approach to redundancy guarantees high system availability, operational safety, and service continuity under all conditions
Resulting reliability
The solutions described above provide the following system reliability characteristics:
- Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) – 20,000 hours;
- Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) – 30 minutes;
System availability – 0.999975.
Hardware platform
All servers and workstations are constructed utilizing readily available Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products boasting optimal specifications and incorporating cutting-edge technology.
Operating System and programming language
The operating system used for all workstation and servers of the ATCS system is the latest stable version of Oracle Linux.
The application software of the system is written in C and C++ algorithmic languages and uses a multi-window graphical interface.
System functionality
ATCS offers a diverse array of functions that can be toggled on or off to tailor the system to their specific requirements.
It is essential to note that the availability of functions is entirely configurable, allowing for flexibility in adapting the system to evolving needs. This configuration process can be undertaken at various stages, including the stage before the initial system delivery or during its operational use.
The functionality of ATCS system in the basic configuration is shown in the table below:
| Functionality/component | Basic configuration | |||
| Air Situation Display (ASD) | + | |||
| Flight Data Display (FDD) | + | |||
| Electronic Flight Strips Display (EFSD) | + | |||
| ADS-B Data Fusion | ||||
| Multi-Radar Tracking
(PSR, SSR, Mode-S, SMR, ADS-B, WAM, MLAT) |
+ | |||
| Bypass Radar Data Processing | ||||
| ATN network support | ||||
| AFTN | + | |||
| AMHS | + | |||
| Ethernet | ||||
| Flight Data Processing | ||||
| ICAO/ADEXP Flight plan data processing | + | |||
| Flight plan and FPL related message reception and processing | + | |||
| Space-time 4D trajectory | + | |||
| SSR Code Assignment | + | |||
| Arrival Manager (AMAN) | ||||
| Departure Manager (/DMAN) | ||||
| Meteorological Data Processing | ||||
| NOTAM, SIGMET, AIRMET, METAR, SPECI, TAF, MET REPORT, SPECIAL message reception and processing | ||||
| weather radar data reception and processing | ||||
| Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) data reception and processing | ||||
| Safety Nets | ||||
| Emergency Transponder Codes | + | |||
| Short Term Conflict Alert (STCA) | + | |||
| Medium Term Conflict Detection (MTCD) | + | |||
| Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW) | + | |||
| Area Proximity Warning (APW) | + | |||
| Duplicated SSR codes | + | |||
| Monitoring Aids (MONA) | ||||
| Cleared Level Adherence Monitoring (CLAM) | + | |||
| Route Adherence Monitoring (RAM) | + | |||
| Approach Path Monitoring (APM) | + | |||
| Departure Path Monitoring Warning (DPMW) | ||||
| ADS-C Route Conformance Warning (ARCW) | + | |||
| Missed Position Report (MPR) | + | |||
| Estimated Time over Discrepancy (ETO) | ||||
| Conflict Probe (CP) | ||||
| Mode-S altitude conformance | ||||
| Ground-Ground Data Link | ||||
| OLDI (On-Line Data Interchange) | ||||
| AIDC (ATS Interfacility Data Communications) | ||||
| Air-Ground Data Link | ||||
| Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) | ||||
| Departure Clearance (DCL) | ||||
| Precision Time distribution | + | |||
| Recording and Playback | ||||
| Technical Control and Monitoring | + | |||
| Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) (for more info see ANNEX 3) | ||||
| A-SMGCS Level 1 (improved Surveillance) | ||||
| A-SMGCS Level 2 (Surveillance + Safety Nets) | ||||
| A-SMGCS Level 3 (Conflict Detection) | ||||
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