İlkin Özel, Regional General Manager, Turkey & North Africa, Honeywell: “Our leading-edge technologies make the airport experience safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative for passengers around the world.”
İlkin Özel, Regional General Manager, Turkey & North Africa, outlined Honeywell’s complex integrated airport solutions to Samantha Jenkins.
Honeywell is a major system integrator, deploying complex systems to large airport hubs around the globe. Its turnkey solutions are designed to deliver benefits to all airport stakeholders, including airport operations, air traffic service providers, and ground handlers.
“With more than 100 years of experience in the aviation and airports sectors, Honeywell is uniquely qualified to support growth and development of the world’s airports,” explained İlkin Özel, Regional General Manager, Turkey & North Africa, Honeywell. “Our leading-edge technologies make the airport experience safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative for passengers around the world.”
Its solutions are present in more than 500 airports worldwide, with the most recent developments including Pristina Airport, Boryspil Airport, Cairo Airport, Diyarbakır Airport, and Antalya Airport. The approach is simple – to deliver smart airside and terminal solutions to better address tough challenges around safety, security, efficiency and productivity to deliver an improved airport experience. In utilising a powerful and integrated platform, operators are able to reduce costs, increase productivity, and make critical decisions.
At this year’s ACI Airport Exchange, Honeywell will be showcasing its broad range of innovations and expertise. Among these is the Honeywell Command & Control Suite, Digital Video Manager (DVM) 600, Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) R430, Attune, Life Safety Solutions, Scanning Solutions, Advanced Visual Docking Guidance System (AVDGS), Airfield Lighting, System Integration & ATC Tower Solutions, and SmartPath GBAS and EGTS (electric taxiing system).
“At airports equipped with these new technologies, aircraft can approach and land at airports in a more efficient way, reducing delays and increasing capacity,” Özel said.
SmartPath, for example, is a Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS), which is said to enable increased airport capacity, decreased air traffic noise, reduced weather delays, and also offers substantial maintenance and fuel savings. “GBAS technology offers greater environmental efficiencies and reduced airport maintenance costs, potentially saving up to $400,000 per system a year. It overcomes many of the limitations of traditional Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), including susceptibility to signal interference from weather, other aircraft, and rugged terrain,” Özel added. More than 20 airports have either installed, or are commissioning, SmartPath systems worldwide.
IATA predicts that airlines will carry 3.91 billion passengers per year by 2017 – an increase of one billion on 2012 figures. Özel explained that Honeywell’s technologies improve the air travel experience from the moment that passengers arrive on airport property to flight touchdown at the final destination. Security solutions such as smart security cameras, advanced video analytics, radar video surveillance and access controls keep passengers and their belongings more secure before they enter the terminal. Its passenger check-in, flight ticketing, and security and baggage handling solutions are used by more than 160 airlines in over 275 countries. In the terminal, meanwhile, it provides building management systems that integrate comfort, security, safety, and energy efficiency. On the runway it offers ground-based solutions that improve the safety of take-offs and landings, and help aircraft to avoid obstacles on the ground and in the air. Finally, Honeywell is onboard almost every commercial aircraft with smart and connected aircraft systems, as well as providing aircraft engines, auxiliary power units, and it has even developed an advanced technology to make green jet fuel.
