Roke helps airport operators decrease wireless costs
The airport industry increasingly relies on wireless radio systems to acquire data remotely for assets such as land vehicles, fuel stores and security sensors. However, they regularly experience downtime due to interference from other technologies which operate in the overcrowded VHF and UHF Radio Frequency (RF) bands.
Businesses are therefore fighting escalating operating costs as a decrease in system reliability necessitates the deployment of staff to gather system information, significantly reducing the benefits of using wireless monitoring.
Bryan Rickett, Electromagnetic Business Area Lead at Roke, said: “The V/UHF bands are very popular with airport operators for remote data acquisition due to their wide coverage, good propagation and low infrastructure costs.
"However, their increased usage means that they have become a victim of their own success as interference between different technologies is creating unreliable services that result in costing money rather than saving it. Roke has more than 30 years’ experience of solving RF problems and our new service will provide expertise to help businesses once again benefit from the use of RF technologies.”