We are very excited to announce that at the glittering ATC Global Excellence Awards dinner on 12th March in Amsterdam we walked away the Outstanding Contribution to the Next Generation of Air Traffic Management Systems (ATM) ATC Global Excellence Award for our Best-In-Class SESAR SWIM Master Class prototype Building SWIM B2B Web Services Using Open Standards at the ATC Global Conference and Exhibition. The judges felt that integrated information management system, using open standards, delivered an important improvement in exchanging vital aeronautical data safely and efficiently.
“The goal of the SESAR SWIM Master Class was to further the development and demonstrate the added value of state-of-the-art information technology for air traffic management.” comments Ian Painter, Managing Director here at Snowflake. “To be recognised as the overall winner in a European wide competition is a great achievement and something we’re really proud of. But to go on and receive further recognition from the ATC community with an ATC Global Excellence Award is a fantastic accomplishment for the entire Snowflake team.”
Our now multi-award winning SWIM prototype demonstrated how an OGC WFS 2.0 web service could be utilised as an underlying backbone on which SWIM, OGC and RESTful web services could be deployed in accordance to the same conceptual definition. The team configured a range of web service APIs to replicate a subset of the SWIM B2B Airspace Availability Service for retrieving European Airspace Usage Plans for Conditional Route Openings/Closings (EAUP CDR) and Restricted Airspace Allocations (EAUP RSA) underpinned by a single OGC WFS 2.0 instance generated using our off-the-shelf GO Publisher WFS software. GO Publisher WFS is our off the shelf web services product which provides real time on-demand access to data via internationally recognised ISO and OGC standards, RESTful, SOAP and JSON. We implemented GO Publisher WFS to provide a SOAP wrapper to replicate relevant NOP B2B web services that provide access to AIXM 5.1 features.
Modernising Air Traffic Management via Open Standards
“We’re extremely passionate about data exchange via Open Standards and believe that through the adoption of an Open Standards approach, considerable operational and implementation benefits can be gained by Air Traffic Management stakeholders looking to implement future ATM systems based on the principles of SWIM,” explains Ian.
“By utilising existing data exchange standards such as AIXM and existing web service standards such as the Web Feature Service, we believe ATM stakeholders can dramatically reduce SWIM implementation costs with proven off-the-shelf technology. The SESAR SWIM Master Class has provided an excellent collaborative platform for us to prototype our ideas with operational data and services and to build for the future. We’re now looking forward to taking these ideas to market and helping realise the benefits of SWIM,” concludes Ian Painter.
Services, tools and associated resources relating to our SWIM Master Class prototype are available online.
Download our free ATM Viewer for AIXM – as used to visualise data during the SWIM Master Class.
