Building Intelligent Skies

Building Intelligent Skies

The ability to deliver valuable data to aircraft 1,000s of ft high over 100,000s of miles poses a unique set of challenges. We have developed ATOM | GRID to address these challenges. ATOM | GRID provides instantaneous traffic and flight information to both pilots and situational awareness for ground based assets.  This has been possible through advancements in ground station technology, radio and internet communications, security and integrity to provide a bespoke service  for the PilotAware ecosystem.

THE ATOM Station

The ATOM station (Air Traffic Overview and Management) is one of the most essential elements of the PilotAware eco-system, as it provides our intelligent GRID network with a method of uplinking important data to PilotAware devices. For FISOs, organisations and enthusiasts, a real time traffic display is can be accessed from ATOM's server.
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ATOM NOde

Each ATOM station collects primary data about PilotAware, ADS-B, Mode-S and FLARM. Utilising its onboard processor this traffic data is converted in a widely recorgnised Traffic display format.
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Grid Network

GRID is our intelligent network that brings traffic, flight information and station information into a secure environment. GRID data is passed up to aircraft through ATOM stations and to FISO's through internet.

Funtionality

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Aircraft Tracker

The ATOM station utillise three radios for aircraft tracking. An 868MHz receiver to detect FLARM aircraft, a 1090MHz receiver to detect ADS-B and Mode-S traffic and an 869.5MHz transceiver to transmit and receive PilotAware transmissions. All 1090MHz transmissions are securely transmitted to our partner 360Radar, this contributes to the data required for the multilateration of Mode-S traffic.
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Intelligent Network

Every ATOM station is connected to the PilotAware servers by the PilotAware GRID (Ground Relay Infrastructure Domain).

The GRID provides the secure, low latency connection required for the transmission of useful data between ATOM stations.

Linking the stations together and sharing data provides a very effective method of reducing airframe and topographical obscuration, which is unachievable when using individual receiving stations.
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Autonomous updates

The PilotAware GRID enables the automatic download of software to enable new features, and fix anomalies in the shortest time possible.

ATOM videos

What's involved?

AN ATOM Introduction
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Building an Atom station
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Upgrade an OGN station
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