Project Brochure - ISMAEL

A D V A N T A G E S
C O N S O R T I U M
• Low costs of production, installation and operation.
• The small size of the sensor allows installation in
almost any location.
• Low energy costs and easy maintenance.
Universität des Saarlandes
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hartmann (Coordinator)
www.uni-saarland.de/fak7/hartmann
ZIV - Zentrum für Integrierte Verkehrssysteme
Dr. Jörg Pfister
www.ziv.de
• Information on vehicle/aircraft position, speed,
motion direction, and general classification of
vehicles.
Votronic GmbH
Christel Krause
www.votronic.com
• Does not rely on secondary transponders or other
equipment on aircraft or vehicle.
• Detection performance is independent of climate
changes and unaffected by radio or radar
transmissions.
• The modular architecture of this concept allows
easy system upgrades and extensions.
• Passive detection principle with no radiation and no
interference with other systems such as aircraft
radios.
• The sensor is completely unaffected by buildings,
other aircraft, road traffic or anything else that can
interrupt the line of sight of existing equipment.
ITI - Certh
Prof. Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou
www.iti.gr
HiTec - Vereinigung High Tech Marketing
Constanze Stockhammer
www.hitec.at
Fraport AG
Michael Huhnold
www.fraport.de
Advantage Business Group
Paddy Kirrane
www.advantage-business.co.uk
Eurice GmbH
Jörg Scherer
www.eurice.de
Intelligent Surveillance
and Management Functions
for Airfield Applications
based on Low Cost
Magnetic Field Detectors
• Position of the aircraft is based on the known
location of the sensor.
P R O J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N
ISMAEL Intelligent Surveillance and Management for
Airfield Applications Based on Low Cost Magnetic Field Detectors
Strategic Objective: "2.3.1.10 eSafety for Road and Air Transport"
in the framework of IST
Period: 01/02/2004 - 31/01/2007
Website: http://www.ismael-project.net
eMail: info@ismael-project.net
www.ismael-project.net

O B J E C T I V E
The objective of the EU-project ISMAEL is the
development of an alternative system for surface
movement surveillance at airports and thus to improve
safety and efficiency of ground movements. A new
detector based on magnetic sensor technology will be
developed for use within advanced surface movement
guidance and control systems (A-SMGCS).
© 2004 Fraport AG
ISMAEL aims at improving existing installations of A-
SMGCS at large airports as well as at enabling the
installation of an appropriate form of A-SMGCS at small
and medium airports in Europe. ISMAEL is a system
development project including collection of user
requirements, detector development, relevant aspects
of system integration for the targeted applications,
prototype testing and establishment of an exploitation
strategy.
P R I N C I P L E
The system is based on
the detection of ferromagnetic
objects (e.g.
vehicle motors, aircraft
components) from their
interaction with the
© 2004 Fraport AG
Earth's magnetic field.
The Earth acts as a biasing magnet, resulting in a
magnetic signature (fingerprint) from the objects. This
phenomenon can be used to detect and locate the
objects, either using a single point sensor or an array of
sensors. The local change of the Earth's magnetic field
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is extremely small - less than 1 microTesla (µT = 10 T)
typically - but the new sensor can detect this reliably.
The system can also be used to distinguish between
different types of aircraft and vehicles based on the
magnetic signature of each type. The information can be
transferred to tower controllers for better airport management.
S Y S T E M
External
Data
Source
Magnetic Field Detector
Sensore Head
(analogue)
Data Transmission
Interface to:
- Radar
- Flight Plan
- etc.
Controller
Working Place
Controller
HMI
Processing
Unit (digital)
Digital
Interface
Digital
Interface
Sensor Data
Fusion
Controller
Work Station
Detector 1
Detector 2
Detector n
P O T E N T I A L A P P L I C A T I O N S
• Airport Surveillance • Docking System
• Fleet Management • Gate Management
• Taxi Management • Runway Incursion
Warning
E X A M P L E : T A X I M A N A G E M E N T
Some of today's A-
SMGCS concepts focus
on the use of the airfield
and taxiway lighting to
control aircraft movements.
ISMAEL could be
© 2004 Fraport AG
used to detect precisely when an aircraft enters a
particular lighting block, so that the lights indicating the
next portion of the assigned route can be lit and the
previous block can be extinguished.
C H A L L E N G E S
The viewgraph shows the number of runway incursions
at FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)-towered airports
between 1994 and 2000. The number increases
every year and can be reduced if the airport is equipped
with systems that allow the air traffic controllers to know
precisely where each aircraft is within the taxiway
system at all times, even when visibility is reduced.
Count
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
Runway Incursions at FAA towered Airports
200
240
275
292
325 321
431
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Year