Black Box

Black Box AV and KVM over IP product solutions assist in delivering real-time data to ATC towers, control rooms, facilitate simulations for flight controller training, streamline baggage handling, and deliver terminal schedules and other contents to passengers via digital signage.

 You’ll find our product solutions working in three major capacities in airports worldwide: 1. streamlining control room operations, 2. conveying interactive passenger information, and 3. facilitating air traffic controller training.

Optimizing Control Room Operations

 Black Box is involved in many aspects of air traffic control (ATC) operations. From connectivity in control rooms accessing remote systems far away from towers and stations to connecting multiple ATCs across a country, our product solutions help control unmanned remote towers, operating everything remotely, including physical and virtual systems. You’ll find our product solutions in different systems that control and monitor everything in air, on the ground, and in between. Supporting radar systems and ground control systems, we provide secure, redundant systems that operate 24/7. Black Box product solutions deliver content needed on video walls or multiviewers to help ATCs make informed, instant decisions.

 To meet the demands for flexibility and scalability of the ATCOs and network applications of airports, multiple airports across the globe are implementing high-performance, safe, and reliable IT solutions. The end-to-end KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) over IP solutions are helping Air Traffic Controllers coordinate the arrival/departure of flights and control overflying planes.

Black Box belongs to the leading global providers of KVM over IP solutions, empowering ATCOs to monitor ground-traffic control, visualize information, and react instantly. Our solutions help ATCOs improve efficiency, optimize workflows, and lower operational costs.

 Facilitating Passenger Communications

 Black Box solutions convey passenger information on displays and interactive kiosks throughout the airport. From viewing passenger schedules, to check-in and baggage claim, we are here with you every step of the way. Our systems work behind the screens and interactive kiosks you see throughout the airport, displaying passenger information, including details for luggage pickup, departure/arrival times, as well as promotional information about shops at the airport. Our extenders connect any screen, no matter the distance to your playout sources, same as enabling the remote control of safety cameras. With digital signage players, the right content can be scheduled at the right time on the right screens, capturing travelers’ attention from inside a store to the screen outside a store.

Supporting Operator Training that is Second-to-None

Black Box solutions facilitate simulation operator training. Our systems help teach ATC operators how to monitor traffic by proving zero-latency transmission to a video wall and desktop monitors. ATCs in training can get experience controlling air traffic in real time, facing the same challenges alongside a real operator. Comparing virtual and real-life decision and reaction times side-by-side greatly improves the trainees’ proper split-second decision-making skills.

When you partner with Black Box, you receive a wide range of benefits, including:

1. Optimized Data Flow: Every takeoff, every landing, and every movement on the tarmac is backed by our systems ensuring real-time, uninterrupted data transfer to control towers and key ground personnel.
2. 360° Operational Support: Beyond just the control tower, our solutions facilitate training modules for ground and air personnel, optimize baggage handling processes, and streamline passenger communications via terminal information displays.
3. Uncompromised Performance: Experience crystal clear, latency-free video up to 4K/60Hz. Reduce system complexity and costs due to full interoperability between 2K and 4K units. Whether monitoring multiple screens or analyzing flight data, visual fidelity is guaranteed.
4. Robust Security: In an age of cyberthreats, our KVM transmission remains fortified, with enhanced security features ensuring you remain one step ahead.
5. Resilience by Design: We understand the importance of every second in ATC operations. That's why our systems are built with advanced levels of redundancy, backup, and fail-safe functionalities, ensuring a 24/7 uptime with virtually no downtime.
6. Compliance Ready: Designed to meet and surpass security requirements, Black Box's ATC solutions provide the peace of mind of having a partner that understands the importance of regulatory compliance.

Setting the Standard for Best Practices

Black Box provides experienced support engineers who can help people at airports and system integrators (SIs) to meet pain points for connectivity and visualization. We have installed our systems in multiple airports around the globe, with the full satisfaction of hundreds of clients.

We understand airports’ need for the utmost security, efficiency, and safety for employees and travelers alike. Our products deliver unmatched results to meet the needs of modern manual, automated, and interactive systems throughout airports around the globe. With simplified control and remote access, our products enable ATCOs to control visual elements and processes securely, quickly, and efficiently.  

Centralized, reliable, and redundant solutions increase operational efficiency and reduce workforce demand. IP KVM and AV over IP offer future-proof control room and visualization solutions, characterized by high resilience, flexibility, and low latency. A fail-proof, redundant Black Box solution guarantees continuous operation of airport processes.

Solutions

• Airport Communications
• ATC Tower Design/Construction
• ATM systems
• Integrated Control Room Solutions
• KVM
• Mobile ATC Towers
• Remote Maintenance Monitoring
• Remote Towers
• Simulators
• Workforce Management