Airport surveillance systems
First Claim
1. An automatic installation for surveillance, guidance and fire-fighting in airports, which controls the position of different aircraft in flight lanes, taxiways and parking areas and, in the event of accident, carries out automatic extinction of fires in the flight lanes and at their ends, comprising:
- a series of sensors arranged in two parallel rows along flight lanes and their ends beyond runway thresholds thereof up to an established distance, the sensors being of infra-red telematic type for picking up the path of any mobile vehicles, whether aircraft or automobile, in the flight lanes;
position detectors in taxiways and parking areas for discriminately detecting the position of the vehicles depending on their position and their movement and the direction of the latter, and to automate their guidance by means of beacons along the axis or at the edge of runways respectively of the flight lanes, lit up by computer;
traffic lights connected to the beacons and located at established distances in any crossings of the taxiways;
anemometers located in the flight lanes;
fixed type hydrants with multiple pipes, neither mobile nor capable of being lifted up from the ground, remotely controlled by computer with fast activation, to carry out the extinction of possible fires located in the flight lanes and in their ends in case of accident;
two supply stations or installations to the hydrants, one at each side of the lane divided into units; and
each hydrant incorporating a dispenser of water/foam mixture; and
a computer in which all the information received by the sensors, along with the wind force and direction data proceeding from a computer to command the hydrants is supplied to these hydrants, the hydrants globally and simultaneously ejecting extinguishing liquid against the heat sources, following the instructions of the said computer for the hydrants, thus integrating the functions of telemetric surveillance and automated firefighting, this being achieved at high speed, on the hydrants entering into operation in a few seconds after the tower pushes the fire-fighting button.
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Abstract
An automatic system for surveillance, guidance and fire fighting in airports. The system is arranged to monitor the position of aircraft in the taxiways, parking areas and flight lanes and in the event of an accident in the flight lane to extinguish any fires caused thereby. Infra-red sensors are arranged along the flight lanes and their output signals are processed by a computer to provide information concerning the aircraft movements along the flight lanes. In the event of an emergency the computer processes the output signals from the sensors to determine the precise location and area of any heat sources in the flight lane and causes hydrants to direct fire-extinguishing fluid at the heat sources. Position detectors are provided for detecting the position of aircraft in the taxiways and parking areas. The output signals from the position detectors are processed by a computer to determine the position of the aircraft and the output of the computer is arranged successively to illuminate beacons to guide the aircraft along a selected route.
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1. An automatic installation for surveillance, guidance and fire-fighting in airports, which controls the position of different aircraft in flight lanes, taxiways and parking areas and, in the event of accident, carries out automatic extinction of fires in the flight lanes and at their ends, comprising:
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a series of sensors arranged in two parallel rows along flight lanes and their ends beyond runway thresholds thereof up to an established distance, the sensors being of infra-red telematic type for picking up the path of any mobile vehicles, whether aircraft or automobile, in the flight lanes; position detectors in taxiways and parking areas for discriminately detecting the position of the vehicles depending on their position and their movement and the direction of the latter, and to automate their guidance by means of beacons along the axis or at the edge of runways respectively of the flight lanes, lit up by computer; traffic lights connected to the beacons and located at established distances in any crossings of the taxiways; anemometers located in the flight lanes; fixed type hydrants with multiple pipes, neither mobile nor capable of being lifted up from the ground, remotely controlled by computer with fast activation, to carry out the extinction of possible fires located in the flight lanes and in their ends in case of accident; two supply stations or installations to the hydrants, one at each side of the lane divided into units; and
each hydrant incorporating a dispenser of water/foam mixture; anda computer in which all the information received by the sensors, along with the wind force and direction data proceeding from a computer to command the hydrants is supplied to these hydrants, the hydrants globally and simultaneously ejecting extinguishing liquid against the heat sources, following the instructions of the said computer for the hydrants, thus integrating the functions of telemetric surveillance and automated firefighting, this being achieved at high speed, on the hydrants entering into operation in a few seconds after the tower pushes the fire-fighting button. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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