Vitrociset Updates the “ARTAS” - EUROCONTROL Surveillance Data Processing System for Turkey’s General Directorate of State Airports Authority

Vitrociset, the Italian ICT Company, leader in managing “safe & critical” systems, has deployed into operation the V8B2 version of the EUROCONTROL ARTAS (ATM surveillance tracker and server) Surveillance Data Processing system, for the authority responsible for Turkey’s air traffic control services (DHMI - General Directorate of State Airports Authority). The installation of the ARTAS system as part of the DHMI ATC infrastructure, carried out by Vitrociset,  is an important step for high quality surveillance over  the Turkish airspace,  which is among the largest in Europe.

Vitrociset installed ARTAS V8B2 having won in May 2015 the invitation to tender issued on behalf of DHMI by EUROCONTROL, the owner of the ARTAS system. The project completed on time and to the satisfaction of EUROCONTROL and DHMI, reflects Vitrociset’s expertise in the installation and fine-tuning of the ARTAS system, as well as the training of operational staff, being this a prerequisite for the installation of future releases at an international level. 

Developed and maintained by EUROCONTROL on behalf of their Member States, ARTAS is a Surveillance Data Processing system, widely used in EUROPE, designed to acquire data from different surveillance systems, to provide an accurate and consistent representation of the traffic situation in a well-defined geographical area and to distribute real time information to a community of user systems. ARTAS, launched in the early 90’s, has already celebrated its 20th anniversary and is currently operational in 31 ATC centres in 20 countries, while at least nine other Organisations are planning to use the ARTAS system in the near future.