Sensis Surface Multilateration System at London Stansted Airport Now Operational

EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensis Corporation's surface multilateration system at London Stansted Airport is now operational. NATS air traffic controllers at Stansted are using the system's high-accuracy surveillance to monitor the movement of aircraft and vehicles on the airport's runways, taxiways and stand areas to increase the safety and efficiency of the airport's surface.

"Controllers at Stansted now have the same surveillance capabilities as Heathrow and Gatwick to effectively and safely manage surface traffic in all weather," said Alistair Clark, NATS program manager. "Additionally, using the same surveillance platform across three key airports is cost-effective for NATS as it simplifies training and maintenance."

Sensis multilateration uses multiple low-maintenance, non-rotating sensors to triangulate aircraft and vehicle locations based on transponder signals to provide air traffic controllers with precise aircraft position and identification information regardless of weather conditions. With a higher update rate and greater positional accuracy than traditional radar, Sensis multilateration provides effective surveillance for increased safety, capacity and efficiency of airspace. With its advanced processing techniques, a Sensis multilateration system uses the minimal number of sensors for a less complex, lower lifecycle cost solution. Additionally, each multilateration sensor deployed by Sensis supports Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B).

"NATS has shown great confidence in Sensis and its technologies as we're now providing surveillance for three critical airports that handle over 124 million passengers per year," said John Jarrell, vice president and general manager of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. "Sensis multilateration can be easily expanded to accommodate future airport growth, which recently occurred at London Heathrow as the existing Sensis system was augmented with additional sensors to ensure coverage surrounding the new Terminal 5."

Almost 100 sites worldwide have chosen Sensis multilateration to enhance safety, efficiency, capacity and cost savings through airport surface surveillance, wide area surveillance and airport surface management.

ABOUT SENSIS CORPORATION

Sensis Corporation provides sensors, information technology, and simulation and modeling to the world's air navigation service providers, civil aviation authorities, airports, airlines and militaries. Sensis Corporation solutions are deployed around the world. For more information regarding Sensis Corporation, visit www.sensis.com.

ABOUT NATS  

NATS handled 2.2 million flights in 2009, covering the UK and eastern North Atlantic and carried more than 200 million passengers safely through some of the busiest and most complex airspace in the world. NATS provides air traffic control from its centres at Swanwick, Hampshire and Prestwick, Ayrshire. NATS Services is the commercial business of NATS and provides air traffic control services at 15 UK airports including Aberdeen, Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow and provides a range of other air traffic control services, engineering, consultancy, aviation data and ATC training services to customers in the UK and overseas. In addition to the provision of ATC services to Aberdeen Airport, NATS provides specialised services to the helicopters supporting the UK oil and gas industry along the length of the east coast, from East Anglia in the south to beyond the Shetland Islands in the north. For more information, visit www.nats.co.uk.

SOURCE Sensis Corporation