SEARIDGE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Their core work

Searidge Technologies is a Canadian air traffic management technology firm specializing in remote and digital tower systems, advanced surface movement surveillance, and airport throughput optimization. Based in Ottawa, they develop sensor fusion platforms that combine video, radar, ADS-B, and LiDAR data to let controllers manage one or multiple airports from a remote location. Within SESAR (Europe's Single European Sky ATM Research program) they contribute the visualization, detection, and situational-awareness technology that feeds the new operational concepts being validated by European air navigation service providers. They are a specialist technology supplier rather than a research organization, pulled into consortia for their mature tower and runway products.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier SESAR work (2016-2020) they focused on the visualization and multi-sensor side of tower operations — the PJ05 Remote Tower activity and the first wave of PJ02 EARTH work on pairwise separation, wake turbulence categories, and LiDAR/RADAR-based runway monitoring. The recent PJ02-W2 AART project (2019-2023) shifts their footprint toward terminal airspace and secondary airports: GNSS-based curved approaches, CDO, EFVS, A-SMGCS and runway-excursion prevention. The trajectory is clear — from tower visualization into a wider airport-wide decision-support stack.

They are moving from a tower-centric product into the broader airside ecosystem, making them a relevant partner for anyone building integrated airport digitalization or secondary-airport automation concepts.

How they like to work

Searidge always joins SESAR consortia as a third-party specialist rather than as a core beneficiary or coordinator, which fits their profile as a non-EU technology vendor brought in for a specific competence. Across just three projects they have touched 71 distinct partners in 25 countries, meaning they plug into very large, European-wide consortia where they sit alongside air navigation service providers, airports, and OEMs. Working with them means engaging a focused product team, not a research lab — they deliver technology modules, not deliverable reports.

Connected to 71 consortium partners spread across 25 countries, almost entirely through SESAR's pan-European ATM ecosystem. The network is European-facing despite the company being based in Canada.

What sets them apart

They are one of very few non-European technology firms embedded inside SESAR's industrial research programme, which gives them a rare combination of North American engineering pedigree and operational experience with European air navigation service providers. Unlike academic participants, they bring deployable products (remote tower, intelligent surveillance) already in service at major airports. For a consortium builder they are the practical choice when a project needs real sensor-fusion software rather than a research prototype.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PJ05
  Flagship SESAR activity defining the Remote Tower for Multiple Airports concept — directly aligned with Searidge's core product line.
• PJ02 EARTH
  Large multi-year runway throughput project covering almost every sensor and separation technology they work with (LiDAR, RADAR, RECAT, wake decay).
• PJ02-W2 AART
  Their most recent engagement, extending their scope from runway to full airside management, A-SMGCS and secondary airports.