Ampron LED apron information and warning system installed at Tallinn Airport — ground safety display for airside aircraft ground servicing operations

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Apron Information and Warning System at Tallinn Airport

Tallinn Airport Estonia

Project overview Seven rugged LED message boards and central server software deployed on the Tallinn Airport apron in 2016, showing preset and free-text warnings, NTP time and temperature from the airport's Vaisala weather system.

Customer Tallinn Airport

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✓ Seven displays with preset and free-text warnings, far beyond the two states of a lightbox

✓ NTP-synchronised time display during normal weather conditions

✓ Solution delivered in 2016

The challenge

The problem to solve

The apron at Tallinn Airport is shared by ground handling, refuelling, in-flight catering, maintenance and cargo crews. The existing safety notification system was a basic lightbox: two states, on or off, limited visibility text. The safety department needed multiple notification variants, NTP-synchronised time display during normal operations and temperature input from the Vaisala weather system already in place.

The solution

What Ampron delivered

Ampron won the public procurement and developed a complete solution: seven rugged LED message boards across the apron, connected to central server software with a graphical operator interface. Each display reports back what it actually executed, and the operator is warned within seconds if a report is missing. Local control, monitoring and reporting run on each display unit. Operators switch pre-defined warning states from the central interface; each warning can carry a validity window.

Outcomes

Results

✓ Seven displays with preset and free-text warnings, far beyond the two states of a lightbox
✓ NTP-synchronised time display during normal weather conditions
✓ Solution delivered in 2016
✓ Weather warnings activated automatically from the aviation weather feed since 2024