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Designed using state of the art process control equipment 

Design inspired by safety-first approach, including redundant elements, which can include power supplies and communications paths.

Modular construction makes the system suitable for any aerodrome, of any complexity or particular needs.

Adaptable to changes in an aerodrome’s physical layout, without costly re-engineering.

Touch-screen technology for maximum flexibility of operation and ease of change in response to changes in aerodrome layout.

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Reliability Features That Are Easy To Add As Required:

  • Dual cabling options for both Remote I/O and Modbus Plus protects the system from single cable breaks or damaged connectors.

  • Fibre optic repeaters are available for both Remote I/O and Modbus Plus to increase distance between nodes or to maximise network noise immunity.
  • Fibre optic repeaters and the fibre optic Modbus Plus network option module can be connected into self-healing rings for reliable communications over long distances.
Flexible Alarm Monitoring Of All Ground Based ATC Systems And Navigational Aids. 
Copperchase new Alarm Monitoring system for airfield Ground based ATC Systems and Navigational aids offers state of the art touch-screen and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) packages tailored to the individual needs of the airfield operation. The system can be economically modified each time you alter your Air Traffic facilities. Alarm panel layouts are redrawn electronically and configured to accommodate changes to layout and additional circuits. A modular PLC allows for increased numbers of Input/Output (I/O) to be added quickly and easily

From The Small Regional Airport To The International Hub.
Copperchase new Alarm Monitoring system for airfield Ground based ATC Systems and Navigational aids features a range of process control products from Schneider Electric. From the ultra compact but very powerful Momentum range of PLCs which can be used as a stand alone system for small to medium sized airfield installations, or as distributed I/O for the more powerful Quantum series on larger more demanding AGL systems. The Man Machine Interface (MMI) is in the form of either an LCD screen with tactile switch panel or resistive matrix touch-screen.

Typical Airport System
At the heart of the system is a Momentum PLC complete with processor, option adapter and I/O base. Additional digital I/O for monitoring of extra alarms is added as required up to max of 8192 drops, each capable of up to 32 I/O. A Momentum PLC (and associated I/O) is interfaced to a number of touch-screen displays. A 10.4-inch Screen is used for the maintenance display and a number of 5.7-inch touch-screens are used for the ATC equipment status displays.

Maintenance Display
The maintenance display provides an ‘at a glance’ view of the monitored equipment. The screen is split into 3 sections. The top half of the screen to the left of the yellow ‘Equipment Status’ bar provides an alarm overview with buttons to enable further pages to be selected to give a more ‘in depth’ look at the systems. Where there is more than one of any particular type of equipment then a further sub menu is provided to select the appropriate equipment. Where there is only one type of equipment, the button will point directly to the relevant equipment page. The bottom half of the screen to the left of the ‘Equipment Status bar’ is purely a status area giving information on equipment, airfield and Emergency status. Whereas the equipment status is purely automatic, the Airfield and Emergency status boxes are updated from a nominated display e.g. VCR assistant. The maintenance display also acts as the logger. In its basic form it can be connected to a printer to give hard copy output for fault-logging purposes.

 
ATC Status Displays.
Status displays can be connected wherever they are needed. They are connected using either Modbus Plus multi-drop cable network or by a direct line using Modbus (RS232) connectivity. Modbus allows displays to be connected remotely via telephone lines and modems if necessary.
Airfield & Emergency Status.
One user panel can be designated as an Airfield & Emergency Status Control panel. This enables the user to change the LVP procedure category and the Emergency category as shown in the picture above. (The LVP page is very similar). On entering the page the 4 boxes on the left are ‘grayed out’. The user simply presses the select button and then the appropriate status button. Once the status has been set then the select button must be pressed again before each status change. This prevents accidental status change. The status change will be indicated to other users by the amber button on the main page of their displays changing to red. They simply press their status button and enter the status page where they can view a page, which is similar to the page above. The only difference being that they cannot change the status from their displays.

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