The ARTAS system created by Comsoft uses the Actian Ingres database to track air traffic across Europe. The Ingres database stores over 2,000 parameters for configuring ARTAS and provides stable, highly available access to critical data for air traffic control. ARTAS has become the standard tracking system in Europe, deployed by 30 air traffic control organizations due to Ingres' reliability, capacity, performance, ease of administration and support.

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Actian Ingres Database
Actian Ingres Database - the
Basis for Europe’s Leading
Tracking System
In 2009, German Air Traffic Control (DFS) counted more than 2.9 million flights according
to Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) in the airspace of the Federal Republic of Germany alone.
Air traffic management deploys cutting edge technology to control and regulate whether
planes are maintaining the necessary safe distance from one another in controlled airspace,
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that they are on the right course and flying at the correct altitude and speed. It uses special
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air traffic management systems, instrument landing systems, and radar and navigation
Industry systems to enable fast and accurate processing of huge data volumes, thus ensuring the
Travel/Aviation smooth flow of traffic. The wealth of different data processing systems in Europe, has led
EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, to take steps
Challenge
towards harmonizing European Air Traffic Management.
Highly available access
to the database for
business-critical The decision to base ARTAS on the Actian Ingres Database
applications
Management System has proven successful due to its transaction
Solution reliability, high storage capacity, fast data processing, simple
The Actian Ingres administration and professional support.
database - stable, reliable
and highly available
An initiative to improve European Air Traffic Management
In order to create a standardized data processing system for air traffic management in
Europe, EUROCONTROL commissioned the development of the ARTAS system (ATM
suRveillance Tracker And Server). COMSOFT, a leading provider of Air Traffic Management
solutions based in Karlsruhe, Germany, is EUROCONTROL’s industry partner for the ARTAS
tracker. ARTAS is a system that creates a recognized air picture from the position data of a
broad range of different sources of measured data (such as radars, multilateration systems
or ADS-B data sources). The multi-sensor tracking system uses the data from the sensors
and provides pilots with the most accurate and up-to-the-minute picture of the current
air situation. This enables air traffic controllers to monitor the exact position of aircraft,
ensuring optimum control and safety of airspace. COMSOFT was tasked with the
continuous development and improvement of the ARTAS system.
ARTAS - ATM Surveillance Tracker & Server
ARTAS is now the most commonly used tracking system in Europe. 30 European air traffic
control organizations have deployed the solution for civilian and military air traffic control,
such as Austrocontrol in Austria, DFS in Germany, DSNA in France, NAVIAIR in Denmark
and ATSA in Bulgaria.

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ARTAS follows a modular architecture with a that access to this data is consistently stable and highly
subdivision in software and hardware components available as failures in these critical applications can
and a clear allocation of functions to components. spell disaster.
Sensor data arrives at the I/O manager (RBR), is
decoded, pre-processed and forwarded sector-wise The decision to base ARTAS on the Ingres Database
to the tracker (TRK) component. The tracker updates Management System has proven successful due to its
a memory-resident track database and simultaneously transaction reliability, high storage capacity, fast data
performs a Multi-Sensor Environment Assessment processing, simple administration and professional
(MSEA), calculating, for example, biases for each support.
of the online sensors. The server (SRV) reads from
the track database, implementing specified services ARTAS is continuously enhanced and improved with
for each of the users. A system manager presides over new features at the application and system level. On
the other components for initiation, monitoring and the system side, COMSOFT has developed a LINUX
online control of the process. Initial configurations version of ARTAS that runs on the leading open source
are loaded from a configuration database and the application platform from Red Hat. A highly qualified
system manager provides access to dynamically Ingres support team was on hand to provide technical
computed values. expertise and guide COMSOFT through the conversion
to LINUX. The close partnership between the two open
Ingres - safety you can rely on! source providers, Ingres and Red Hat, ensured complete
Ingres is the database for the configuration data and compatibility of all components. The decision to opt
is a central component of ARTAS. This database for open source software for the development of ARTAS
stores all of the sensitive data required for the initial has enabled COMSOFT to create a particularlycost-
configuration of the system. The Ingres database holds effective solution.
a total of more than 2,000 configuration parameters,
which are continuously accessed by operating, Now deployed in more than 30 countries, ARTAS has
monitoring and analyzing components. It is crucial established itself as a de factostandard in the air traffic
control sector.
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