Shanghai Goes Live
London, UK, 10th April, 2008 -- Ultra Electronics Airport Systems today announces the live operation of the Airport Information System (AIS) for Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Shanghai Pudong was first opened in 1999 as a single runway and single terminal airport. Following continued expansion with an annual growth rate of more than 10%, it has become a major far east international hub with over 30M passengers. A third runway has recently been opened to coincide with the opening of the new Terminal 2.
Ultra Electronics was selected as the AIS supplier in Sept 2005 as part of the airport’s IT systems update for the T2 expansion. The AIS system now controls operations at both the existing T1 and T2 and comprises new IT products for Airport Operational Database (AODB), Integration Broker (IB) and Resource Management Systems (RMS). Ultra were selected for the AIS project for their in-house product technology and their Integration Broker experience at London Heathrow, utilising the Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) from Progress Software.
Ultra’s role as systems integrator included the definition of operational functionality and interface specifications with multiple specialist system suppliers. Integration with system suppliers was de-risked by remote testing over VPN, prior to delivering an on-site Test Lab to perform full concurrent testing in advance of final production and site operation.
The cut over to live operation of the AIS was made on 13th March 2008, 2 weeks in advance of T2 opening on 26th March. Ultra products delivered to Pudong include:
The UltraDB Airport Operational Database, which holds the airport’s master flight schedule and serves as the central repository for shared operational data, with specialist gateways to external systems.
The UltraResource Resource Management System, which processes local business rules to control the allocation of all aircraft stands, gates, check-in desks and baggage belts in T1 and T2.
The UltraIB Airport Integration Broker which simplifies airport systems integration through the provision of 7 reusable integration services. In this Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), interfaces with 18 new systems at Shanghai Pudong are provided using fully XML based services, designed to satisfy a wide spectrum of airport business needs and configured to meet each system’s specific requirements. The UltraIB provides generic message handling features such as queuing, protocol support, security, etc. and governance facilities including activity monitoring of service message streams and the ability to configure new interfaces with additional service instances with ease.
Graeme Stacey, Ultra Electronics Airport Systems Managing Director, said "Ultra is proud to have contributed to the successful opening of the new Terminal 2 at Shanghai Pudong and values the strong relationship developed with this visionary Airport Authority. This project demonstrates Ultra’s global capability as an airport Systems Integrator and establishes an important regional operation in the emerging Chinese aviation market.”
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