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A comprehensive surveillance/communication system supports communication of monitored data and/or commands or operational data between the ground or base station and the transport, between the transport and ground or terminal support vehicles and/or equipment, between the transport and various monit

A comprehensive surveillance/communication system supports communication of monitored data and/or commands or operational data between the ground or base station and the transport, between the transport and ground or terminal support vehicles and/or equipment, between the transport and various monitoring stations or systems, between transports, between the ground station and the support vehicles, between the monitoring station and support vehicles and between the monitoring stations or systems and the support vehicles. This permits the ground station to monitor and/or determine the identity, location, and heading of any vehicle in its range for tracking and collision avoidance, as well as monitoring sensor information, alarm conditions, emergency conditions, servicing requests, maintenance information, navigational information, requests for information such as flight plans, weather information, route maps, message traffic such as e-mail and the like. Similar information may be transmitted and received between any combination of transports, monitoring stations, personnel, mobile units and support vehicles. Operational commands may also be transmitted utilizing the system of the invention.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A security and surveillance system for ground or in port monitoring and tracking of a commercial transport and for communication of on-board data to the ground and ground data to the commercial transport, the system comprising:a. at least one ground based sensor having

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A security and surveillance system for ground or in port monitoring and tracking of a commercial transport and for communication of on-board data to the ground and ground data to the commercial transport, the system comprising:a. at least one ground based sensor having a specific operational zone and adapted for monitoring a selected condition associated with the commercial transport whenever the transport is in the operational zone for generating a unique first data signal representing the specific condition to be monitored;b. at least one commercial transport based sensor adapted for monitoring a specific on-board based condition on the commercial transport and for generating a unique second data signal;c. a ground based monitoring station;d. a communication system on-board the commercial transport for transmitting the unique second data signal to the ground based monitoring station; ande. a ground-based communication system for transmitting the first and second unique data signals from the sensors to the ground based monitoring station for monitoring the selected condition and for selectively transmitting the first and second unique data signals to the commercial transport.