Pathfinder ALCMS

The Pathfinder ALCMS system is a sophisticated airport lighting control and monitoring system designed to complement our popular range of Airfield Ground Lighting.  Our system is preferred at over 300 airports globally.

The primary purpose of an ALCMS system is to remotely control the taxiway and runway lights from the tower.  Many other lights and safety products can be controlled on the Pathfinder system including approach, stop bars, and apron lighting systems.

The lights can be operated either individually or as a group, which helps the manoeuvring of all the ground traffic in a safe and efficient way on the airfield.

ALCMS can be designed to connect and control with any type of airfield lighting equipment and fittings by multiple manufacturers.  The system usually includes the monitoring of alarms relating to the airfield operations and storing them for future interrogation or analysis.

All within a customer freindly interface:

• Multi view 2D or 3D display.
• 100% accuracy of lights in the flight zone.
• 360 degree vector zooming in and out control.
• Alarm classification.
• Human voice prompts.
• Can be customised to individual needs.
• Multilingual options available.

Individual Lamp Control and Monitoring Sub System Architecture:

• SMGCS orientated design
• POE - Power line communication - no dedicated cabling required.
• Response time under 2 seconds.
• Detection and control accuracy 99.98%
• High fault tolerance communication with lower rate of false alarms.
• Military grade components with strong environmental adaptability.
• No special requirement for isolation transformers.
• Compact size lamp and monitoring unit.
• Multiple interfaces and international compliance.
• 10,000+ nodes possible in single application.