COMSOFT: Singapores New ADS-B System Ready to Go Live

SINGAPORE, October 2009 The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and COMSOFT have signed site acceptance test certificates for most advanced ADS-B receivers plus an ADS-B processing system last month. After the conclusion of reliability acceptance tests, the system is now ready to enter operational service.

In December 2008 the Singaporean air navigation service provider CAAS had contracted COMSOFT with the deployment of their ADS-B sensors and a redundant data processor for sharing and distributing ADS-B data, plus an additional development and evaluation system. Additionally QCMS, a control and monitoring platform with enhanced statistic and evaluation features was implemented. It allows the comfortable management of up to 64 redundant ground stations. The new installation was further complemented with the advanced network management system CNMS, as specified by CAAS. As of now all COMSOFT components are implemented and awaiting the connection to the ATM system in CAAS new ATC centre.