20Indra, a leading company in the provision of consulting services in transportation, defense, energy, telecommunications, among others, announced the digitalization of Peru’s air surveillance network, crucial to ensure the fluidity of flights throughout the continent and, therefore, increase the efficiency of operations.
Over the last few years, the company has carried out the modernization of 25 Latin American airports, which has boosted the region’s capacity to manage air traffic.
Indra assures that «two out of every three control centers in the continent, including Lima, Peru’s main one, handle traffic with Indra systems, which reinforces the interoperability and facilitates a much more fluid traffic (…) Indra’s technologies are contributing to help the main navigation service providers to manage more flights, in a safer and more eco-friendly way».
The company has added eight new stations to ensure the safety of air operations in Peru. «The radars operate in combination with new ADS-B systems, antennas that collect the information that the aircraft emit in an automated way with their position. » Once again, accuracy is gained by combining the data collected by the radar with that collected by other means,» they reported.
Furthermore, this modernization will also stimulate air transport in Peru and the region. Likewise, the digitalization of radars allows the remote maintenance of the entire network of surveillance stations, increasing the safety of procedures and reducing costs. Actually, under this system, a constant and centralized monitoring of the operation can be guaranteed.
«Precisely to take maximum care of this last factor, last year Indra delivered to Peru a state-of-the-art transportable radar (MSSR-S) ready to be deployed in a few hours to reinforce aerial surveillance wherever it is needed. This system, with a range of 550 kilometers or 300 nautical miles, has made it possible, for instance, upgrading the Lima airport radar without affecting air operations,» states the press release issued by Indra.
Indra will work to improve air traffic efficiency in Europe
The Spanish multinational is strongly working to promote the sustainability of operations through the incorporation of state-of-the-art technologies applied to air traffic management. This year it was selected by Eurocontrol, the main air navigation control body in Europe, to carry out the digital transformation at more than 500 airports, through which more than 11 million flights are made every year.
According to the company, «the digitization of Eurocontrol’s operational systems to be carried out by Indra will provide more accurate flight operations planning, which will increase punctuality and safety, raise the capacity to manage more air traffic in Europe and improve sustainability.»
«The need to manage more and more traffic, doing so in a cleaner and safer way and with more competitive costs is forcing them (navigation service providers) to incorporate a whole range of next-generation technologies: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, digital IP communications, virtualization, cybersecurity,» they added.
