Smith Myers Announces Major Features Upgrade for ARTEMIS Simulator

Farnborough International Airshow, 22-26 July 2024 ---  Smith Myers, global leader in airborne cellular identification, geolocation and communications solutions, announces a significant features upgrade for the ARTEMIS simulator. This upgrade coincides with FIAS2024 and allows the creation of various real-world scenarios through an intuitive interface. “These new features have been developed in collaboration with our end users and prime integrators to offer our customers a set of operationally meaningful features that will enhance the simulation experience” explained Simon Alford, Director of Software Architecture.  “It is not just the immersive training experience that these new features will benefit.  This major update provides integrators the ability to test software and hardware integrations on the bench, such as automatic steering of the EO/IR turret or using ARTEMIS location data to feed the autopilot.” 

ARTEMIS User Interface & Flight Simulator

The new features enable operators to refine their techniques and tactics within the secure confines of a classroom environment, well before engaging with the live operational system.

Additionally, it boasts the capability to seamlessly integrate live mission data directly from an ARTEMIS system, allowing a comprehensive post-mission analysis. This ensures that real-world operational data can be scrutinised, insights gained, and strategies optimised, leading to a highly efficient and adaptive training process for ARTEMIS operators. 

New features:

• Definition of Complex Environments including 2G, 3G and 4G and Roaming Mobiles
• Definition of Mobile Handset Behaviours
• Quick/Automatic Creation of Random Background Mobiles/Population
• Definition of In-service/Out-of-service mobiles
• Import and Replay Real ARTEMIS Flight Data

ARTEMIS simulators can be installed in a formal training environment or in an operational environment, enabling efficient and fast pick-up of features and deployment.

About Smith Myers www.smithmyers.com 

Smith Myers Communications Ltd began trading in 1987. The company specialises in designing, developing and manufacturing search and rescue (SAR) mobile phone location systems for Network Operators, Government Agencies, Law Enforcement, Military, and SAR organisations. Its innovation is Artemis, a system for SAR aircraft to turn any mobile phone into a rescue beacon. The SAR worst-case scenario is an out-of-service phone: The subscriber can’t call you, you can’t call them, and the network operator can’t help. Artemis provides a solution with a novel design that, from the air at 35 km, can find a missing person by showing their precise location on a map and providing communications by text and voice, dramatically reducing search times and adding to the crew's safety. An additional benefit is the ability to broadcast text messages from the aircraft to every responding phone in a disaster area where the local phone network is disabled. In addition to the King’s Award for Enterprise Innovation 2024, previous awards include the Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal; ADS Security Innovation Awards, British Engineering Excellence Award, and ICCA (International Critical Communications) Award.

About ARTEMIS https://smithmyers.com/artemis-capability/ 

ARTEMIS can quickly identify and accurately locate mobile telephones in the challenging airborne SAR environment, even where there is no cellular network present.  ARTEMIS can detect cellular handsets at extended ranges of up to 35Km and provide unique capabilities such as mass-mapping and geofencing, which lead to more rapid positive outcomes, even in low light/IMC conditions.  ARTEMIS is not a DF system but uses the actual cellular (2G/3G/4G/5G) protocols to identify, geolocate and communicate with the handsets. ARTEMIS operates stand-alone in complete isolation from the cellular network.