Voice Communication Systems for Air Traffic Control

Company FREQUENTIS
Date 26.11.2012
SWIM, the system wide information management can be seen as the backbone of Single European Sky to renew the European ATM infrastructure.

As most recently reported by a SJU Press Release, major progress has been made with SESAR’s System Wide Information Management (SWIM), the intranet of the future Air Traffic Management System. At the 2nd SWIM Demonstration Day, on 15 November 2012, airports, weather & volcanic ash information providers, airlines and air traffic control centres were able to exchange information instantaneously. This technical demonstration proved the agility and flexibility that SWIM will bring, allowing new collaboration between all actors in the system.

Frequentis contributed to the described successful SWIM Demo Day with two SESAR validated iCWPs, developed by the team Frequentis/DFS (the German air navigation provider). The peculiarity of the Frequentis/DFS concept is an open platform which is used by all implemented applications (APPS) to communicate with each other and share data within the iCWP.

As described in the PIR (project description of SESAR project) of the respective Project 12.5.4 this open middleware is based on SWIM principles. Therefore it was no wonder that the iCWP could be connected to SWIM natively, without additional interface boxes. Furthermore this specific architecture allowed to test SWIMs Workload Balancing Function by switching one iCWP from receiving Bremen data to Hamburg data – acting therefore as if it would now be a Hamburg TWR position.

Frequentis and DFS will continue working on this open concept.

For more information about SWIM see the SJU webpage.

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