If airports are to maintain the AGL performance standards, and achieve this efficiently, then they need to adopt a new solution strategy that incorporates an effective measurement system, efficient maintenance practices, good equipment and best practice installation.

In fact, this has been confirmed by the growing consensus between the ICAO, CAA and FAA that traditional maintenance approaches are not sufficient to maintain systems within the standards they now set.

Instead, they now accept that in-field measurement and analysis of lighting performance using a mobile photometric measurement system is the only effective means of determining the true performance of an AGL system and recommend that this should be undertaken on a regular basis.

Equally, they also recommend that to ensure that AGL system are maintained within the specified serviceability levels, mobile photometric measurement should be used as part of a targeted and preventative maintenance regime.

Instead, they also TMS Photometrics' MALMS technology, Differential Maintenance strategy, and a range of installation services, have been specifically developed, through years of research, to enable airports to make the recommended new 'best practice' strategy a reality.

• MALMS offers a technology that can accurately, repeatedly, easily and rapidly (with minimal runway time), measure the performance of AGL installations, both inset and elevated.
• Differential Maintenance is a 'best practice' maintenance regime, which employs the ability of MALMS to pinpoint lighting degradation problems, and from this data targets, prioritises, monitors and manages maintenance work.

Crucially, TMS Photometrics' solution is proven in its ability to enable airports to effectively maintain their AGL systems to the recommended performance levels now laid down by all the main international regulatory bodies, thus ensuring safety standards are maintained and the risk of non-compliance is all but eliminated. Equally, airports worldwide are now finding that the combined use of MALMS and Differential Maintenance is enabling them to obtain the maximum benefit from any maintenance activity, thereby minimising manpower and material resource wastage and enabling maintenance expenditure to be optimised, so reducing AGL life cycle costs.

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