Technology promises safer flights in Brazil – Digital Look

The task of those working in the Brazilian air traffic control is not easy. Besides the hundreds of flights every day – according to the National Civil Aviation Agency, more than seven million passengers per month – you need to evaluate weather conditions and situation of the aircraft in real time with no room for error. Not enough all these variables, Brazil has a territorial air space of 8.5 million square kilometers; So not counting space over the ocean, which totals 22 million square kilometers.

Beside modern equipment like radars and satellites, the main tool airspace control is communication. In partnership with the Brazilian Air Force, this newly-opened laboratory at the premises of CPqD in Campinas, should help in the evolution of communication.

The idea here is to test new equipment and technologies that can help control traffic air. As we said earlier, all the elements of this laboratory are focused on communication; whether ground-ground or ground-to-air.

Today, in Brazil, the services of airspace control using only based on closed networks, such as networks of terrestrial telecommunications and satellites. Until today, no IP communication. Based on the Internet, IP networks are networks capable of carrying both voice and data. The benefits of IP communications are great:. Plus more flexibility, IP service offers higher bandwidth – ie, more information can be trafficked simultaneously

Here in the lab it will be possible to simulate critical situations and test new tools that ensure a clean communication even in highly congested networks.

The new communications technologies promise to make the work of air traffic controllers more efficient. But, much more importantly, it should make them even safer flights, with a more precise monitoring in real time of everything that happens with the aircraft.