{"id":15767,"date":"2017-10-10T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15767"},"modified":"2017-10-08T19:13:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T23:13:50","slug":"airports-are-outsourcing-their-control-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/airports-are-outsourcing-their-control-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Airports Are Outsourcing Their Control Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100817_2216_AirportsAre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist wrote about the control tower outsourcing business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of having an elevated air traffic control tower some airports are opting to install cameras that transmit video to a low-rise office building several hundreds of kilometers away.<\/li>\n<li>The system can boost safety. Cameras including infrared ones allow operators to see what typical control towers can&#8217;t. And remote centers can do things like zoom on video or project augmented reality displays with distance approach counters.<\/li>\n<li>The system cuts costs. Airports no longer need to build elevated tower structures. And a single remote center could control multiple airfields.<\/li>\n<li>Some regional airfields don&#8217;t have any kind of landing control. Instead pilots keep a sharp eye and state their landing plans to other planes in the area on an open radio line. Such airfields could now afford to have air traffic control.<\/li>\n<li>Nordic populations scattered across isolated settlements have been the primary benefactors of the system.<\/li>\n<li>But other, larger airports are being targeted. Operators initially make inroads by selling it as a contingency tower in case of emergency.<\/li>\n<li>There are fail safes if the remote towers ever go offline. In the future a network of them could act as each others&#8217; fail safes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21722618-remote-centres-using-video-replace-airfield-edifices-airports-switch-virtual\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist wrote about the control tower outsourcing business: Instead of having an elevated air traffic control tower some airports are opting to install cameras that transmit video to a low-rise office building several hundreds of kilometers away. The system can boost safety. Cameras including infrared ones allow operators to see what typical control towers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100817_2216_AirportsAre1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15787,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767\/revisions\/15787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}