Keeping flights moving
Airports run to slot times. Lighting, boarding bridges, fuel and utilities must stay available, with faults found and fixed before they delay aircraft or passengers.
Industry brief
Airports
Airside and terminal control systems that keep an airport safe and open.
What matters
What matters most
Airports run on tight margins, many of them around the clock. Airfield lighting, boarding bridges, fuel and utility systems must be there for every movement, safe for people and aircraft and secure against cyber attack. Upgrades have to happen without disrupting a live operation, under the eye of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Airfield lighting you can trust
Ground lighting must show the right pattern, report failures at once and meet CAA requirements, including while circuits, regulators or control rooms are being changed.
Working on a live airport
Airside work needs passes, escorts and permits, and has to fit short night-time windows. Cut-overs on a busy airport cannot cost lighting, power or passenger services, even briefly.
Cyber security
Airports are high-profile targets. Larger ones have NIS duties overseen by the CAA, and the operational technology behind the airfield and terminal is part of that.
Solutions
Solutions for Airports
An airport cannot close for an upgrade. We plan work around the flying programme, airside access and night-time windows, keep existing systems running until new ones are proven, and test logic against a simulation before it reaches site. You receive the design, code and records to operate the systems and support your regulatory evidence.
01Aeronautical ground lighting control
02Passenger boarding bridge controls
03Fuel farm and hydrant systems
04Power distribution and utilities SCADA
05Terminal building and infrastructure SCADA
06Drainage pumping and pollution control
How we help
What we bring to Airports
Standards-led, fully documented control systems that you own and can support.
Upgrades
Controller migrations
Obsolete PLCs to current platforms
In Upgrades UpgradesHMI and SCADA modernisation
New panels and SCADA, same operation
In Upgrades Virtual CommissioningChanges to running plants
Prove changes before download
In Virtual Commissioning Virtual CommissioningSequence, interlock and fault testing
Every sequence and fault path tested
In Virtual Commissioning Code DevelopmentBrownfield: understand, then change
Existing code analysed, documented and modified
In Code Development Code DevelopmentYour standard, your blocks
To your coding standard and block library
In Code DevelopmentStandards
The standards that shape your project
The standards listed are those most often relevant to control-system work in this sector. Which apply to your project, and how, is agreed with you at specification stage.
| Standard | What it covers | How we work with it |
|---|---|---|
| CAP 168 Licensing of Aerodromes | CAA requirements for licensed aerodromes, including visual aids and ground lighting. Certificated airports follow the equivalent UK aerodrome rules. | Lighting control and monitoring designed to the requirements that apply to your aerodrome. |
| IEC 61820 series | Design and installation of constant-current series circuits for aeronautical ground lighting. | Control and monitoring interfaces to regulators and circuits designed around its principles. |
| BS EN 12312-4 | Safety requirements for passenger boarding bridges, part of the aircraft ground support equipment series. | Bridge controls, interlocks and safety functions designed and tested against its requirements. |
| NIS Regulations 2018 | Cyber security duties for airports designated as operators of essential services, with the CAA overseeing aviation. | Segmented networks, controlled remote access and documentation that support your NIS evidence. |
| IEC 62443 | Security of industrial automation and control systems across their lifecycle, for asset owners, integrators and suppliers. | Its zone-and-conduit model and security levels shape how we design control networks. |
| BS EN 60204-1 | Electrical equipment of machines, such as boarding bridges and other airside plant. | Control panels, wiring and emergency stop circuits designed to its requirements. |
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