Mese: Settembre 2024

SITTI IN SESAR ANTICIPATE PROJECT

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It is a big honour for us to announce that SESAR approved the ANTICIPATE project to be eligible for being granted as an interesting Exploratory Research project (ER) under Grant Agreement 101166947. Six partners will be developing the project under the chairmanship of Miquel Àngel Piera Eroles:

  1. Autonomous University of Barcelona (coordinator) – Spain
  2. SITTI – Italy
  3. Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA) – Italy
  4. Institute For Sustainable Society And Innovation (ISSN) – Italy
  5. Technische Universität Braunschweig (TUBS) – Germany
  6. Eurocontrol – Belgium

This is the first time SITTI is a prime actor in SESAR projects: till now the contribution of our company to SESAR projects has been through other companies like ENAV. About one year ago, SITTI was the coordinator of another proposed project, named COVER, which has been positively evaluated but not funded by SESAR due to budget limitations.

The basic idea behind ANTICIPATE (acronym for Absorb Nearby Tidy Identified Candidates for Ideal Parteking Available Extra-Capacity) is the identification of a set of aircrafts that can be delegated to an adjacent sector to balance the workload of controllers and better exploit the capacity of each sector, by transferring the competence of a given number of aircrafts from an overloaded sector to a less engaged one.

This shall be accomplished by also taking into consideration the trajectories of the aircrafts and other possible traffic limitations, while maintaining the minimum separation between aircrafts. This project differs from possibly correlated concepts such as Dynamic Airspace Configuration (DAC) and Dynamic Airspace Sectorization (DAS) because the airspace is not “deformed” nor “reconfigured”, but the intended result is obtained by transferring a properly identified group of aircrafts from a controller to another, with temporary modification of the airspace structure.

VATM signs contract for SITTI VCS

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On September 11, an important contract has been signed between the Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) and SITTI for the supply of a new Voice Communication System (VCS) system. This contract (worth about 1.6 million euro) is part of the “Ho Chi Minh Air Traffic Control Centre – ATCC/HCM“ project which includes the “Supply and installation of VCCS voice communication and control system“.

The new contract signed in Ha Noi came after a harsh selection process of international vendors, during which both technical and financial proposals have been analysed by VATM, aiming at providing the Ho Chi Minh City Air Traffic Control Centre (ATCC) with one of the most important equipment needed for air traffic control (ATC). The contract envisages one main VCS system with 80 working positions, plus a backup/training one with further 70 working positions.

The VCS voice communication that will be supplied by SITTI will allow Vietnamese ATCOs to proactively, efficiently and effectively manage the air traffic flow over the vast airspace under their control, thus contributing to the overall flight safety in the area. The new system at ATCC/HCM will in fact ensure the provision of air navigation services for the Ho Chi Minh FIR (Flight Information Region).

At the signing ceremony, VATM was represented by Deputy General Director Ho Sy Tung, while SITTI representative was Mr. Gianluca Codega, Sales Director. Both expressed their satisfaction for the positive conclusion of the evaluation process and its finalisation.

This major project is an important development step for VATM, and SITTI is glad to be part of this process. With almost 80 years of experience in providing equipment systems for air traffic control, SITTI is grateful to VATM for its trust in the company as the supplier of the VCS system, that will contribute to ensuring safe and effective air traffic operations in the region thanks to its compliance to the tough technical requirements set, its proven high reliability and flexibility, meeting current operational needs and scalable to meet future operational needs.

KLIA EXTENSION BY SITTI

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The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is a very busy airport in the Far East, which SITTI has already provided a number of solutions for air traffic control. The Eastern and Western towers of this large airport require extensions for interfacing new radios, namely 19 radio receivers plus 18 radio transmitters.

SITTI will therefore supply all needed equipment for the proper handling of these new radio connections, also including BSS (Best Signal Selection) functions that automatically choose the best received audio from different receivers operating on the same frequency. All the new boards are envisaged to be physically installed in the already existing racks placed in the two towers, thus not requiring any additional space in the respective equipment rooms.

The extension is going to be installed in the next few months to cope with the agreed SAT time schedule, according to which all activities shall be completed by the end of next March.

The new boards are added to the existing VCS (Voice Communication System) without disruption of ongoing services, so that their smooth and seamless introduction will allow ATCOs to immediately access the new communication facilities without experiencing any outage of the system.