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ACE-IDS
ACE-IDS is an integrated COTS/NDI system produced by All Weather, Inc. (AWI).
The system includes hardware and software components that comply with U.S.
government certification standards.
- ACE-IDS features the ACE Control Cabinet (ACC), which provides centralized
interface control via industrial grade redundant processors. The ACC software
provides Remote Maintenance Monitoring (RMM) of all interconnected ACE-IDS
system units.
- ACE-IDS features System Atlanta's IDS-5 Display Software, a versatile
Integrated Display program available on the market today. ACE-IDS also integrates
the capabilities of AWI's ACE NetView, which provides real-time maintenance
monitoring and control.
- ACE-IDS servers and workstations running the Windows-NT operating system
are linked via TCP\IP communications protocol for data dissemination over
local or wide area networks.
- ACE-IDS is designed for use in air traffic control towers, radar approach
control facilities, en route centers, automated flight service stations,
weather stations, maintenance facilities, training facilities airline and
airport operational and military air fields.
- Provides a collection of software tools, which allows each facility to
create, manage, and maintain a user-defined, custom database tailored to
the local aviation environment.
- Allows data from a wide variety of internal and external sources to be
consolidated on screen in many combinations and formats for easy access
within a graphical user interface. Reference data, such as charts, maps,
approach plates, procedures, etc. can be integrated with real-time data
collected by interfaces to other systems. ACE-IDS users can be alerted automatically
to changes in critical information.
- External interfaces include, but are not limited to: Automated Surface
Observing Systems, National Weather Service Systems, digital altimeter,
flight data input/output system, low level windshear alert system, runway
visual range, official time source, terminal doppler weather radar windshield
and graphical situation display, and other graphical weather systems.
- Integrated data formats eliminate the need for multiple system displays
at each console, freeing space while creating a single focal point at each
controller's console for obtaining information.
- Workstations may be located within a single facility, throughout an airport,
or over a wide geographical area. With almost unlimited possibilities in
interconnectivity for information exchanges, ACE-IDS provides air traffic
and aviation management personnel with rapid access to information from
many sources.
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