Stationary Ampron LED display on a concrete base at the Tallinn Airport de-icing pad showing TAXI FORWARD with two green lights, a cargo aircraft behind.

Airports

De-Ice Operations Upgrade — Additional PAD Locations at Tallinn Airport

Tallinn Airport Estonia

Project overview Expansion of Tallinn Airport's de-icing pad control system from the original trailer to fixed pads: a DR-2000×1040 board and a large LED video wall in 2023, two more fixed pads in 2025, and a rebuilt trailer with LTE and its own generator.

Customer Tallinn Airport

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✓ Additional PAD locations operational — stationary DR-2000×1040 and video wall display installed

✓ Trailer rebuilt with an LTE router and its own generator, so it can run away from a mains point.

✓ Each pad runs its own instance of the same control application. One operator per pad, and a screen in use can't be taken over from another tablet.

The challenge

The problem to solve

Following the successful deployment of the original deployable LED de-icing pad system (delivered 2018), Tallinn Airport wanted to expand operations to additional PAD locations. New requirements: stationary displays at fixed pads, generator-based charging for the mobile unit in addition to existing electrical charging, and the same step-by-step pad control on every pad, mobile and fixed, from the operators' rugged tablets.

The solution

What Ampron delivered

Ampron delivered two stationary displays for the additional PAD locations: one DR-2000×1040-P8 rugged outdoor board and one large-format display built from LED video wall panels. The trailer was rebuilt with an LTE router and a generator. Each pad has its own instance of the control application on the airport's server, picked from a common landing page on the tablet. The 2023 extension was handed over in July 2023. Two more fixed pads, M16 and M22, followed under a separate tender and were handed over in November 2025.

Outcomes

Results

✓ Additional PAD locations operational — stationary DR-2000×1040 and video wall display installed
✓ Trailer rebuilt with an LTE router and its own generator, so it can run away from a mains point.
✓ Each pad runs its own instance of the same control application. One operator per pad, and a screen in use can't be taken over from another tablet.
✓ Handed over July 2023, in service from the 2023–24 winter season; extended to five pads in November 2025

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