This nationwide Air Traffic Control Instrumentation monitoring and control application includes:
- Six regional VTScada applications located at Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Moncton, and Gander.
- A technical training application in Kingston.
- A centralized configuration admin application at the Ottawa Tech center.
- A centralized data collections and storage application, located at their National office.
Regional Operations Center
The regional systems interface with Staticraft ILS and runway lighting systems, radar systems, UPS and genset controllers, Monco runway glidepath and guidance systems, and Marconi VOR systems. These regional interfaces are primarily used for health and alarm management rather than control. In addition to displaying system alarms, alarms are disseminated via their internal paging system.
Reliable System Architecture
All applications are autonomous but maintain connectivity for data transfer. Each regional system consists of two redundant application servers, two I/O servers and three workstations. Network availability and traffic are monitored using the VTScada SNMP driver.
Time-Saving Templates
To maintain consistency across all of these applications, each of the systems is built upon a standardized software toolset layer, including customized communications drivers, graphics, functions and other elements. This toolset is maintained and expanded by Trihedral. Updates are sent to the customer for testing and deployment across its regional centers.
Maximo Support
The Air Traffic Control SCADA system integrates with their national Maximo installation, initiating work order requests via Web Services. VTScada stores corresponding work order numbers, which are used by operational staff to launch the Maximo client interface.