Control system at an airport
AssigneeAdb Safegate Sweden AB
InventorOla HÅKANSSON
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Abstract
This invention relates to a control system at an airport and a method implemented in such a control system. The system comprising: an input unit being arranged to communicate with an airport surveillance system at an airport, a control unit being arranged to receive, from the input unit, identification data for an aircraft on ground, position data, indicating a position of the aircraft, and, to provide the identification data to a data storage and receive an identifier of a designated gate for the aircraft from the data storage, wherein the control unit is further arranged to provide a signal to a gate control system at the designated gate for preparing the designated gate to receive the aircraft if the position of the aircraft is within a predetermined distance from the designated gate.
Claims11
A control system comprising:
- an input arranged to communicate with an airport surveillance system,
- a controller arranged to receive, from the input, identification data for an aircraft on ground, position data, indicating a position of the aircraft, and, to provide the identification data to a data storage and receive an identifier of a designated gate for the aircraft from the data storage,
- wherein the controller is further arranged to provide a signal to a gate control system at the designated gate in preparation of the designated gate receiving the aircraft in response to the position of the aircraft being within a predetermined distance from the designated gate, and
- the controller is further configured to delay the signal to the gate control system by a certain amount of time based on an estimated travel time of the aircraft from the position of the aircraft to the designated gate.
A method implemented in a control system, the method comprising:
- receiving, from an airport surveillance system, identification data for an aircraft on ground and position data, indicating a position of the aircraft;
- providing the identification data to a data storage and receiving an identifier of a designated gate for the aircraft;
- providing a signal to the designated gate for preparing the designated gate to receive the aircraft in response to the position of the aircraft being within a predetermined distance from the designated gate;
- and
- delaying the signal to the designated gate a certain amount of time based on an estimated travel time of the aircraft from the position of the aircraft to the designated gate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.