2291 update 0206 tryk - TERMA
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In this Update issue
Terma recently secured a contract with Danish
Services Provider, Naviair, to deliver its TERADS
emergency system.
Terma is also to deliver information support system,
ATC*ISS for the prestigious customer, National Air
Traffic Services, NATS, UK.
Terma’s 2K TruePixel LCD air traffic monitor, TP2800,
is nominated for Jane’s Airport Review Industry
Award at the ATC Maastricht 2006 exhibition.
Contents
Naviair selects Terma’s TERADS Emergency System / 2-3
Acknowledgement of the ATC*ISS system / 4
Terma to provide Riga Airport with State-of-the-art ATIS/Volmet Capabilities / 5
Terma ATC*ISS for London Heathrow’s New Tower, NATS / 6-7
The start of a new era in ATM data display / 8-9
Multiple Surface Movement Radars in A-SMGCS / 10-11
We Provide Mission Customized Solutions / 12
TERMA UPDATE . FEBRUARY 2006
Naviair Selects Terma’s TERADS Emergency System W
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Naviair Selects Terma’s TERADS Emergency System
After a tender process, Terma has
been contracted by the Danish
Services Provider, Naviair, to deliver
its TERADS emergency system.
The system supports Naviair’s
implementation of DATMAS - Danish
Air Traffic Management System,
and takes over when the existing,
Copenhagen Air Traffic Control
Automated System, CATCAS, is closed
down.
Terma will deliver TERADS by the
end of 2006, and throughout 2007,
TERADS will run in parallel with
DATMAS during the shadow operation
period until DATMAS is certified and
declared fully operational by 2008.
after that, TERADS will remain as an
emergency system to DATMAS.
The TERADS emergency system will
secure the ATC controllers’ situational
awareness, including the ability to
clear the airspace at any given time
in case of an operational emergency
situation.
The system will support a total of
63 work stations at the airports of
Copenhagen, Billund, and Roskilde.
Once implemented as an emergency
system, TERADS continuously
supports and backs up the Air Traffic
Management, ATM, unlike most
competing emergency systems that
require a start-up time from idle mode.
The decision by Naviair to select
TERADS for its emergency system
builds first and foremost on the
system’s structural simplicity and
low complexity. These characteristics
secure stable operation, trouble-free
Terma’s TERADS emergency system continously supports and backs up the
Air Traffic Management
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TERADS was developed by Norway’s CAA, Avinor, to support the helicopter operations servicing Norway’s off-shore oil rigs.
Two years ago, Terma acquired TERADS and obtained the global sales and marketing rights, excluding Norway.
Since then, Terma has refined and developed TERADS as a modular system named TERADS Tower, TERADS Backup, and TERADS RADS.
TERMA UPDATE . FEBRUARY 2006 3
TERADS EMERGENCY SYSTEMS
and immediate user control with little
demand for additional training, and
the user-friendly Human Machine
Interface (HMI) of TERADS provides
easy customization of fonts and colors
to match the existing environment.
While basically simple and robust,
TERADS is supported by Terma’s
roadmap for future product
development based on inputs from
and demands among existing users of
the system.
Terma offers its TERADS users to join
a dedicated user group that sets the
milestones for continuous updates
and modifications. These are then
made available to all members of the
user group whenever a new version
is released, but can of course also be
acquired by non-user group members
at an extra cost.
TERADS is built on a stand-alone PC
platform, using Windows NT or XP
operative systems. The extensive use
of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)
components secures low maintenance
costs, high reliability, and easy
implementation within customer
environments.
TERADS has been certified for
operational use by the Norwegian
authorities, and the documentation
from this process secures easy
operational certification by any Civil
Aviation Authority, CAA.
Terma has been contracted by the Danish Air Navigation Services Provider, Naviair, to deliver the TERADS emergency system
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INDUSTRY AWARD
At the ATC Maastricht 2005
exhibition, Terma Air Traffic
Management (ATM) received Jane’s
Airport Review’s Industry Award for
our ATC*ISS system.
Terma Air Traffic Management is proud
to be selected as winner of the Industry
Award category in Jane’s Airport Review
magazine among five internationally
recognized companies, including Thales,
ERA, Rannoch Corporation and Micro
Nav. The judges selected the nominees
based on extensive research into their
contributions toward safer skies and
capacity enhancements within the
airspace management industry.
Terma’s ATC Information support system,
ATC*ISS delivers information about
weather, procedures, etc. to the air traffic
controller. Thereby, the efficiency of the
air traffic controller is enhanced, and the
situational awareness is improved. Terma
ATM primarily supplies the system to
control centers, but the system is also
applicable in control towers. The system
has, among others, been sold to the
civilian aviation administrations in
Denmark, Norway, Germany, and the
Netherlands.
In a recently updated version, ATC*ISS
now displays air traffic load data from
the European Organization for the Safety
of Air Navigation, EUROCONTROL. The
data are available for individual air traffic
controllers from Naviair at the
Copenhagen Kastrup control center. The
data from EUROCONTROL’s Central Flow
Management Unit (CFMU) allows for the
management of air traffic flow.
For Naviair, the implementation of the
CFMU interface with its existing
information display system supports
optimal staff planning. The airspace
sector leaders at Naviair, for instance,
are able to foresee the traffic load in the
next 20 minutes and allocate the
appropriate number of controllers to
manage the traffic accordingly. Each
controller can also have direct access to
the CFMU from his or her desktop.
Naviair is a state enterprise under the
Danish Ministry of Transport with a
charter to supply air traffic control
services, i.e. to control and guide
airplanes safely and with least possible
delay through the Danish airspace.
According to EUROCONTROL, the
primary objective of managing the flow
of traffic is to assist Air Traffic Control
(ATC) by avoiding overloads and to
provide a smooth flow of traffic.
Consequently, this adds to air traffic
safety.
The ATC*ISS system at Naviair interprets
traffic load tables for all Danish airspace
sectors generated from a single CFMU
terminal and arranges the data in an
online menu on the controller
workstation display. Upon selecting a
sector, the traffic load is presented in
easy-to-read graphical format allowing
the controllers an overview of the
expected traffic load and possible sector
splits, e.g. in the immediate future. The
information system only displays a
configurable amount of information at a
time and is automatically scrolled with
time as new information is received from
the CFMU terminal.
This year, we are nominated with our 2K
TruePixel® LCD air traffic monitor,
TP2800. We hope to repeat the success
by wining Jane’s Airport Review’s
Industry Award for the TP2800 designed
for the most safety-critical environment
in the world.
Acknowledgement of the ATC*ISS system
Carsten R. Nielsen, General Manager for Terma ATM, receiving Jane’s Airport Review’s Industry Award for Terma’s ATC*ISS system at the ATC Maastricht 2005 exhibition
This year, Terma’s 2K TruePixel® LCD air traffic monitor is nominated by Jane’s Airport Review’s Industry Award.
TERMA UPDATE . FEBRUARY 2006 5
ATIS FLEX SYSTEM
Terma to provide Riga Airport withState-of-the-art ATIS/Volmet Capabilities
By the end of March, 2006, Terma
ATM will install its advanced ATIS
Flex system at Riga Airport, Latvia,
as part of the CASCADE project.
The system will then go live in April,
and be declared operational by early
2007 after comprehensive tests and
certification.
With ATIS Flex, Riga Airport will be
able to provide digital and voice ATIS
(Automated Terminal Information
Service) and VOLMET (Aeronautical
Broadcast Service) messages to
cockpit crews on approaching,
departing, and en-route aircraft,
greatly relieving ATC controllers of the
need for manual handling of request,
and enhancing safety in the same
process.
The air traffic controllers will gain
improved working conditions, being
relieved of the burden of continuously
providing latest available Mission Error
Table, MET, and runway data manually,
whereas pilots will enjoy a distinct
high-quality broadcast of ATIS
information whenever they need it.
The implementation of Terma’s ATIS
Flex is an integral part of the CASCADE
(CNS/ATM* Applications Staged
Implementation and Conventional
Airspace Development) project with
the U.S. provider DORS International
Inc. as its principal supplier.
A salient feature of Terma’s ATIS Flex
platform is its flexibility that allows
users to define themselves the
interfaces for easy integration within
existing infrastructure. The flexibility
also ensures convenient customization
of fonts and other features by the
system’s Human Machine Interface,
HMI.
The new platform of this ATIS Flex
system for use at Riga Airport includes
departure clearance and allows for up
to 16 optional services. The HMI is
programmed in Linux, while
applications are based on JavaScript.
ATIS Flex allows for simultaneous
operation in two broadcast languages
and also provides a generation of a
wide range of statistics that are
essential as management tools.
Basic to Terma’s product philosophy is
the extensive use of Commercials Off-
The-Shelf, COTS, that secures low
maintenance costs, a high rate of
reliability, and easy implementation
within customer environments.
Over the next three years,
implementation of the systems and
technologies comprised by the
CASCADE project will bring Latvia’s Air
Traffic Control into full compliance
with the most advanced international
aviation requirements by the
International Civil Aviation
Organization, ICAO and the European
Organization for the Safety of Air
Navigation, EUROCONTROl.
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With Courtesy of NATS
When the new, 87-meter-high control
tower at London Heathrow becomes
operational from 2006, it will be
equipped with Terma’s information
support system, ATC*ISS Tower.
The ATC*ISS System will replace the
existing system in the current 50-year-
old tower at London Heathrow, but the
cut-over will require only little effort by
the ATC controllers; ATC*ISS uses the
same convenient Human Machine
Interface, HMI, as the familiar system,
and will thus require little extra training
before implementation.
Despite the scale of operations at
London Heathrow, the world’s busiest
international airport with 67 million
passengers in 2005, the ATC controllers
in the tower opposite the new Terminal
5 will benefit from software similar to
that of many control centers around the
world – only the data are more real-
time, reflecting the need for high data
update capacity as required by tower
operations.
One of the salient features of ATC*ISS,
as with all products by Terma, is the
high ratio of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
(COTS) components. Compared to
competitors, Terma is a dedicated user
of COTS components which warrant a
high up-time, a low failure rate, modest
maintenance costs, and over-all
systems reliability and safety. This was
also appreciated by NATS (National Air
Traffic Services) as one crucial
parameter in the decision-making
process.
With a high proportion of verified and
tested COTS components, ATC*ISS
minimizes any risk for malfunctions or
problems in implementation and
integration, which translates into safety
and efficiency. The use of COTS also
entails minimum lead-times from
procurement to implementation.
ATC*ISS builds on an open UNIX-based
client/server systems architecture, and
is easily integrated with existing data
sources and other systems, and with a
user-friendly HMI, the system is readily
customized. This also reduces the
workload to a minimum for the ATC
controller who can then devote full
attention to monitoring the traffic on
the basis of a firm situational overview.
By uniting all existing sources of data
required by the air traffic controller in
an integrated presentation on his work
station, ATC*ISS greatly reduces the
need for equipment within the tower
environment. It also contributes to a
calm and controlled atmosphere and
Terma ATC*ISS for London Heathrow's New Tower
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The ATC*ISS is now in service
with more than 1,000 daily users
at both military and civilian
airports in eight countries
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ATC*ISS SYSTEM
ensures that only the latest valid data are
presented to the controller at all times.
Conceived in the early 1990s, and since
being continuously updated and expanded,
the ATC*ISS is now in service with more
than 1,000 daily users at both military and
civilian airports in eight countries, having
proved its value as a cost-efficient and
safety-enhancing ATC tool.
At the ATC Maastricht 2005 exhibition,
Terma received Jane’s Airport Review’s
Industry Award for its Information Support
System, ATC*ISS. The nominees were
selected based on extensive research into
their contributions toward safer skies and
capacity enhancements within the
airspace management industry.
In a recently updated version, ATC*ISS
now displays air traffic load data from the
European Organization for the Safety of Air
Navigation, EUROCONTROL.
The new 87-meter-high control tower at London Heathrow will be equipped with
Terma’s information support system ATC*ISS Tower
With
Cou
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ATS
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The start of a new era in ATM data display: TP2800 – the Prime LCD Monitor of the 21st CenturyAround the world, many ATC centers
and organizations are still equipped
with the Sony DDM2800 series of
CRT 2K monitors for air traffic
management. But we have reached
the end of an era: the production of
the Sony monitor has ceased, and
users will now increasingly be
looking for a replacement as their
equipment draws closer to the end of
its design life.
The solution, however, is already at
hand. The global provider of ATM
solutions, systems and equipment,
Terma, has introduced a new high-
resolution Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
for air traffic management. The new
product, TP2800 series 2K display, was
first presented at last year’s ATC
Maastricht exhibition and drew
immediate response. Since then it has
been test-run at several institutions.
Among the first customers to
implement TP2800 as the direct “one-
to-one” replacement of the out-going
Sony DDM2800 are the German Air
Force, and the Civil Aviation Authority,
CAA, in the UAE.
With a 2048 x 2048 pixel TFT LCD
panel by Sharp Corporation of Japan,
this monitor offers superior color
evenness, luminance and sharpness as
well as remarkable viewing comfort.
Electrically and mechanically, the
monitor is fully compatible with the
Sony DDM range of 2K x 2K color
displays.
One-to-one solution
The new display is carefully designed
to yield a quick and trouble-free
replacement of outdated Sony analog
DDM2800 monitors, thereby extending
the service life of any system using
Sony (or compatible) 2K x 2K displays.
Terma can even offer a disposal service
to remove the old Sony DDMs for safe
disposal in accordance with the proper
statutory and environmental
requirements. In addition, your
investment in the 2K x 2K LCD module/
panel can be preserved over the years
as electronics technology advances,
because all major parts of the TP2800
display product are integrated to open
standards and easy to upgrade.
All TP2800 components are
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf items, which
secures spares availability, long-term
support, and cost-efficient operations.
The unit consists of only four Field
Replaceable Units (FRU): LCD panel,
backlight unit, controller board and
external power supply. This, and the
absence of any moving parts, such as
fans, provides a high Mean Time
Between Failure, MTBF, and a low
Mean Time To Repair, MTTR, value.
The TP2800 series monitor comes in
two main versions:
TP2800RA (analog version) TP2800RB
(digital/analog version with Dual DVI
which is DDWG EDDi compliant)
Safety First
Designed for the most safety-critical
environment in the world, air traffic
management, the TP2800 could
rightfully claim to be the world’s safest
monitor. The hardware has been
designed to fail in obvious failure
modes allowing its user to immediately
realize when the displayed information
on the screen is not to be trusted.
Stringent simplicity has been the
supreme design criterion behind the
TP2800, contributing to its safety
record.
Conforming to the safety
recommendation of the leading Civil
Aviation Authority Safety Regulation
Group, the TP2800 displays no menus
or dialogs on-screen. Instead, set-up,
control, and calibration of the display
are executed on a separate laptop or
PDA.
“Seeing is Believing”
Terma has put the utmost efforts into
securing a mission critical system
where maintainability and reliability
rank second only to safety. This
translates into benefits, including an
extended MTBF period exceeding
40,000 hours, a single PCB design
granting fast and easy repairing, use
of standard external power supplies for
high reliability and low costs, and a
low number of FRU to further reduce
fault finding time.
But “seeing is believing” – this goes for
new ATM equipment, too. Therefore,
several CAAs and/or ASNPs around the
world have already completed testing
and evaluating the TP2800, or are in
the process of doing so.
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TP2800 LDC MONITOR
The RA (Replacement Analog) version of the TP2800 is designed to be directly mounted in the console after removal of the Sony DDM unit.
Safety Case Study
Terma can provide a safety case study (HAZOP analysis) for the customer when integrating the TP2800 into the customer organization, based on the recommendations by UK Ministry of Defence: “Safety Management Requirements for Defence Systems” [00-56] and “HAZOP Studies on System Containing Programmable Electronics” [00-58].
The safety case study also follows the recommendations in the “Use of Safety Management Systems by ATM Service Providers” [ESARR 3], and “Risk Assessment and Mitigation in ATM” [ESARR 4].
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Terma’s SCANTER 2001 Surface Movement Radar,
SMR, in Toulouse Airport
Multiple Surface Movement Radars in A-SMGCS The continued focus on situational
awareness in airports and the cost
inflicted by close-downs of important
transport hubs due to poor visibility,
have made the use of multiple
Surface Movement Radars, SMR,
an ever more urgent demand when
updating or implementing A-SMGCS
(Advanced-Surface Movement
Guidance and Control Systems).
Terma’s SCANTER 2001 has proven its
value as an SMR with more than 60
systems in operation all over the world.
This fact, combined with the radars’
high reliability, good performance and
ability to retain radar coverage even
in heavy rain, has set the standards
for the SMRs in A-SMGCS. Especially
the reasonable price and impressive
resolution compared with the Ku-
band radars have pushed the X-band
SCANTER 2001 forward in the market,
a position that has been sustained
by the use of the High Gain Circularly
Polarized antennas.
The excellent performance combined
with the attractive price will make
airports less sensitive to poor visibility
and severe weather conditions by
installing several SMRs. As it is very
often hard to find a single radar
position where all maneuver areas and
runways are equally well covered, it
results in far better coverage of the
entire airport. Another issue handled
by introducing multi-sensor coverage
in critical areas, is false tracks caused
by a multi-path phenomena due to the
nature of radar radiation. Consequently,
an increasing number of major airports
introduce double radar coverage of the
complete maneuver area, which often
includes more than two SMRs.
Although Terma is acting as a sub-
supplier to the main contractor who
delivers the complete A-SMGCS, our
technical skills and wide experience
is applied during all phases of an
A-SMGCS project, ranging from
participation in site surveys concerning
advice for radar positioning, coverage
calculations, and setting demands
for infrastructure required during the
planning and tendering phase. By
initiating the contact at this very early
state, Terma facilitates that the radar
sensors are used to the best of their
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SURFACE MOVEMENT RADARS
ability, thus minimizing the overall
project risks.
Terma's radars are manufactured
from start to finish at our own
manufacturing facilities. Our extended
quality control ensures that the product
fulfils the high-precision requirements
in airports. Furthermore, the fact that
Terma is able to maintain a reasonable
high volume of high-performance,
high-quality radars, means that the
SMR can be offered at an affordable
price.
In the project implementation phase,
Terma manages all radar-related
activities in connection with the
Factory Acceptance, installation and
commissioning of the radar sensor.
Installation is carried out by our own
specially trained field engineers,
ensuring a quick and reliable system
turn-on and final commissioning.
This further enables us to provide an
extended warranty period of three
years.
The commissioning and setting-to-work
of an SMR is a very important phase.
During this phase, the local parameters
are loaded and adjusted in order to
make the radar work optimally on
the specific site and under the local
conditions. In most instances, training
of technical personnel is carried out
immediately after setting-to-work and
on location which ensures that the
end-users' service teams are trained on
their own equipment and in a real-life
environment.
Terma recommends airports to choose
the redundant Terma SCANTER 2001
SMR solutions, ensuring a very high
reliability of the SMR. Combined with
an easy and efficient diagnostic tool
through extensive BITE, Built-in Test
Equipment, and a quick replacement of
line replaceable units, the radar system
is very easy to maintain. Further, Terma
has an efficient logistics organization
providing a short turnaround time.
In this way, the defective parts are
replaced and returned within the
shortest possible time. Terma offers a
maintenance contract to cover any kind
of service needed keeping the radar
working at its optimum through its
entire life. The special service package
may include an annual health check
and other activities.
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TERMA IN BRIEF
Terma develops and markets high-tech solutions, systems,
and products for civilian and military applications.
Terma A/S is headquartered at Lystrup near Århus,
Denmark. Terma is a 100 percent Danish owned company.
Terma’s high-tech solutions and products are developed and
designed for use in extreme mission critical environments and
situations, where human lives and valuable material assets
are at stake.
Terma’s business areas cover:
· Aerostructures for aircraft
· Airborne systems, including
– Self-protection systems for aircraft
– Audio systems solutions
– Reconnaissance systems for fighter aircraft
– Electronics manufacturing
· Integrated systems, including
– Self-protection systems for naval vessels
– Command and control systems for navy, army, and air force applications
· Radar surveillance systems
· Solutions, services, and products for space applications
· Air traffic management systems
· Technical support services.
In Denmark, Terma facilities are located at Lystrup, Grenaa,
and Herlev (Copenhagen).
Terma’s international locations include Leiden, the
Netherlands; Besozzo, Italy; Darmstadt near Frankfurt,
Germany; Washington, DC, and Warner Robins, GA, USA.
Terma A/S was established in 1949. For many years, Terma
has worked closely with defense forces, public authorities,
and international organizations around the world. Through
these relationships, Terma has gained in-depth knowledge of
and insight into our customers’ working environment and an
equally deep understanding of their situations and needs.
Terma is fully owned by the Thomas B. Thrige Foundation.
We Provide Mission Customized Solutions
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Sales 202 183 161 170 151
Sales share abroad 163 147 134 99 92
Profit for the year before tax 14 12 10 10 7
Equity Capital, year-end 57 53 52 42 40
Assets, total 167 189 177 156 157
Order intake 189 145 211 179 173
Order book, year-end 228 241 279 228 219
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