CIAS microwave barriers prevent aircraft collisions at airports

The ERMO 482X Pro model, which ProdexTec distributes in Spain and Portugal, It is designed with Fuzzy Logic technology, providing anti-collision safety solution, ideal to support air traffic control on the ground.

From 1974, the italian company CIA manufactures microwave barriers designed especially for security uses. However, ERMO 482X Pro series, with fuzzy logic algorithms (Fuzzy Logic) It is also used to manage taxiways and their links (roads at airports to access main runways), as well as runway incursions that automate exit lights after a GO command on a stop bar.

This technology, in both K-band and X-band models, have proven to be the most reliable for immunity to radio frequency interference that occurs in the vicinity of airport runways.

This opinion is also shared by ADR (Rome airports) who had a direct experience at the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino where more than 70 Ermo 482x Pro barriers to support air traffic control.

The result they highlighted is a reduction of up to 95% of alarms not generated by the actual presence of airplanes on the runways, compared to previously used standard analog technologies, without compromising the reliability of intrusion sensors.

At airports there are different sources of electromagnetic interference, some of them of great intensity. First of all, ground radar, then the instrument landing system and continuing with radio communication between the aircraft and ground control, inter alia.

The deployment of CIAS microwave barriers, brand distributed in Spain and Portugal by ProdexTec, It is a very suitable solution for these situations.

The most requested solution is the ERMO 482X series 3.0 Pro, equipped with an antenna 24 GHz capable of generating a very coherent microwave beam and managed by sophisticated signal analysis based on the rules of fuzzy logic (Fuzzy Logic).

The result is that it allows increasing the detection capacity of the real presence of airplanes or other vehicles on the runways., almost completely eliminating the effect of existing interference and the consequent disturbances due to false detections.

Many Italian and international airports are already equipped with technology from the Italian company CIAS or are about to adopt them to increase not only perimeter protection, but also anti-collision safety to support air traffic control on the ground.