■ Korea Airports Corporation, LSIS sign agreement to construct the jointly developed individual airport lights control system
■ Bolsters operation safety, drastically cuts operating costs such as maintenance and energy cost
■ If the system is adopted by the country’s airports, it could cut imports worth KRW 100 billion
Sophisticated aviation control systems will be introduced to Gimpo International Airport. The systems can ? through radars and control systems ? control not only aircraft but also a variety of support vehicles within the airport in real time.
LSIS (CEO: Koo Ja-kyun) recently announced that the company will supply to Gimpo International Airport the Individual Lighting Control & Monitoring System (ILCMS) it developed jointly with KAC (CEO: Sung Si-chul).
ILCMS will be installed by the end of 2014 and test-operated before going into operation.
ILCMS employs power line communication technologies without installing separate control cables or communication lines, uses radars and light control systems installed within the airport, and monitors, guides, and controls aircraft and various support vehicles. In other words, it is essential equipment for supporting safe aircraft operation.
ILCMS integrates, manages, and provides the information necessary for surface movement monitoring, optimum guidance path planning, aircraft surface movement, and monitoring and control.
Thus, ILCMS prevents a rise in air traffic as well as situations of collision of aircraft, vehicles, and equipment within the airport and facilitates communication between air traffic controllers and pilots. It can also maintain safe ground traffic flow, thereby ensuring safety and efficiency.
In the past, malfunctioning aviation lights were difficult to detect; they could be controlled by turning on or off all lights. In contrast, ILCMS can immediately identify malfunctioning lights and control individual lights, thus drastically reducing the maintenance time and manpower as well as energy consumption.
As the key technology for implementing the Advanced Surface Movement Guidance & Control System (A-SMGCS), ILCMS has been adopted by various advanced airports around the world such as Ruzyne Airport in Czech Republic’s Prague and Beijing Airport. The technology is owned by only five to six foreign companies. Thus, South Korea depends on the import of all the equipment.
Against such backdrop, LSIS and KAC began the development of the equipment in 2006 and succeeded in 2008. Last year, ILCMS was successfully test-operated for Jeju International Airport for the first time in the country, and it has been operating stably.
“Amid the recently increasing concern for aviation safety, the locally developed advanced aviation control system will be introduced to Gimpo International Airport, whose safety is expected to be enhanced drastically. If adopted by the country’s airports, the system will substitute KRW 100 billion worth of imports for the country, contribute to the national economy, and cut down airport operation costs such as energy and maintenance cost,” an LSIS official said.
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