COMPANY INTRODUCTION

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 THE COMPANY

GLOSS is a consultancy company founded by a

group of experts with extensive experience in the
field of Civil and Military integrated mission-critical
systems. GLOSS

Our extensive work with international companies

encompasses all areas of business operations. It
covers Marketing & Sales, Program Management,
System Architecture and Software Implementation,
making GLOSS the ideal partner for companies
seeking to expand into new markets or new
business areas.

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 COLLABORATION

GLOSS collaborates with a large group of international

companies operating in various fields. Expertise areas
include Air Traffic Management, Airports, Vessel Traffic
Management, Lighting Systems and Logistics Services.
Our long experience and extensive product porfolio allow
us to offer the best solutions to our Customers’ needs,
tailoring the systems to their specific requirements.

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 OUR EXPERTISE
Our staff includes professionals with decades of
experience in:
• Corporate Management
• Marketing and Sales
• Program Management
• System Engineering
• Hardware Design
• Software Design
• Systems Integration
• Logistics and After-Sales Support

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 OUR EFFORT
We support partner Companies with the following tasks:
• Market Scouting and Research
• Analysis of International Tenders
• Identification of Solutions to fit Customer requirements
• System architecture design
• Bid document preparation
• Program Management
• Site inspection and installation design
• Logistic and maintenance

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 OUR PROPOSAL

GLOSS interacts with many Italian and foreign

partner companies offering an extensive range of
products, systems and services. This allows us to
address specific markets and to propose complete
global system solutions to meet customer
requirements.

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 AREAS OF INTEREST

Air Traffic Management

Airports

Vessel Traffic Management

Lighting Systems

Logistics

Others
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 Air Traffic Management
• Integrated ATM systems for ACC/APP/TWR
• ATM Back-up systems
• A-SMGCS
• ACC/APP and 3D Tower training simulators
• ADS-B and Local/Wide Area Multilateration
• Integrated legal recording and playback
• Voice Communications (Voice Switching Systems and VHF/UHF radios)
• Airport Weather Observation Systems (AWOS) and Meteo Sensors
• Weather radars
• AMHS (Aeronautical Message Handling System)
• Navaids (DVOR, DME, NDB)
• Ancillaries (UPS, diesel generators, Site Monitor, Console Frames)
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 Airports and heliports

• Solar lights for small airports and heliports

• Portable lights for tactical airports
• LED Lights for airport apron
• Airport Ground Lighting (AGL) photometric measurement
• Solar obstruction lights
• Solar illuminated wind sock
• Noise Monitoring systems
• Bird dispersal systems
• Power supply (UPS, diesel generators)

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 Vessel Traffic Management

• VTS (Vessel Traffic Management Systems)

• AIS (Automatic Identification System)

• RIS (River Information System)

• GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System)

• Port Management Systems

• Voice Communication Switching Systems

• VHF/UHF/HF Radios

• Meteo sensors (temperature/pressure, wind, etc.)

• Ancillaries (UPS, Data Comm, Master Clock, Console Frames)

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 Lighting Systems

• Plasma Flat Lamp

• LED Lighting systems for streets

• Tunnel LED lights

• Solar Lights for airport applications (runway and taxiways)

• Solar lights for heliport applications (FATO, TLOF)

• Solar obstruction lights

• Solar illuminated wind sock

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 Logistics

• Site inspection
• System performances optimization
• Maintenance Training
• Software training for real time applications
• Lifetime extension upgrading
• Obsolescence resolution
• Technological renovation
• Electronic components repair (Tx, Rx, Power Supply, etc)
• Non-standard consumables supply (i.e. magnetron,
encoder, rotary joint, etc.)

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 Others

• UPS
• Diesel Generators
• Military and civil shelters
• Enterprise Configuration Management

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MAJOR COLLABORATION

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 ASSN
Advanced Solar Solution (ASSN) is a network of
companies (Gloss, Gesetec and Biofly), established to
provide advanced solutions based on the solar power
energy for various applications in the aeronautical
field.
Main product is the SILAS (Solar Illumination
Aeronautical System) design to provide solar lighting
systems for airports and heliports, without the need of
any site preparation and ground power cabling.
SILAS is remotely controlled and
monitored and may include
additiona features such as wind
cone, video surveillance, obstacle
lights, etc.

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 SiATM
SiATM is a Swedish company operating from
more than thirty years in the air traffic control
center fields. SiATM provides cutting edge
technology for en-route, approach and tower
control encompassing all the most advanced
functionalities for RDP, FDP, Workstations,
AMAN, DMAN, Flow control.
The product portfolio also includes scalable ATC
simulators for all levels and airspaces. The
SiATM systems are present in various parts of
the world such as Latvia, Moldova and Bahrain.
In addition, they provided the back–up systems
for the Hong Kong, Croatia and Serbia Air Traffic
Control Centers.
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 CADMOS
Cadmos is an experienced, dynamic and cutting edge
company, with proven knowledge in integrating stable
technologies with state-of-the-art generation systems,
particularly in the ATC environment. One of the major
products is the ISS (Integrated Surveillance Suite), an
integrated software and hardware system that records
simultaneously all relevant types of data of a ATC Controller
suite: Video, Audio, Mouse and Keyboard inputs, Radar
stream, alarm signals.
One of the key feature of ISS is the completetely transparent
connections; it means that the failure of any ISS unit, does
not affect the operation of the operational system.
Cadmos product range includes also reliable and efficient
Voice Recorders for any typology of Air Traffic Control
Centres.

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 ELMAN
Established in 1975, ELMAN S.r.l., is an Italian company
specializing in the design, manufacturing, maintenance
and installation of telecommunication equipment and
systems for military and civilian applications. The Elman
product portfolio cover a wide range of applications:

• Vessel Traffic Management (VTS)

• Automatic Identification System (AIS)
• Global Maritime Distress and Safety Systems (GMDSS)
• Voice communication switching systems (VCS)
• VHF and UHF fixed and portable radios
• GPS-based receivers and positioning systems

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 MEP
MEP has been designing Voice Communication Systems
for critical applications since 1989. The systems are
extremely robust and designed using the most advanced
components and technology. The business specializes in
systems for traffic control in the Aviation and Maritime
sectors.
MEP develops software and hardware to meet the most
rigorous safety criteria (incl. ED153 guidelines). The aim
is to apply open standards as far as possible, making
the products timeless and enabling effortless integration
with existing and future networks. MEP VCS systems
are present in many countries such as United
Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, Island, Spain.

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 OSI
OSI (Optical Scientific Inc) is a U.S. company world leader in
optical sensor innovation.
OSI design and build the most advanced optical instruments
in the world for measuring precipitation, air flow, turbulence,
and visibility. OSI sensors and systems serve airports,
highways, railroads, sea-borne vessels, smelters, power
plants, refineries, and hundreds of other commercial and
industrial sites around the world. Main products are:

• Optical wind and visibility sensor

• AOWS AV Weather observation system
• Deployable AWOS

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 ANPC
ANPC is a world leader in military and civil Landing
Systems, Navigation Services and Air Traffic
Management. Key ANPC products are:
• The Transponder Landing System (TLS), which
provides a solution at airports and military air
fields where siting constraints make ILS signal in
space performance problematic and/or cost-
prohibitive.
• ANPC’s Local Area Multilateration (LAM) provides
extremely precise position information, positional
accuracy, and update rates never before achieved
at a fraction of the cost of an MSSR and
significantly lower cost and shorter
implementation schedule than traditional
multilateration systems.
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 RADTEC

Radtec is the world’s leading fully integrated (design

thru manufacturing) meteorological radar supplier.
Radtec has the most complete product line in the
industry, ranging from magnetron to klystron based
transmitters, S, C, X and K band, dual polarization
and both fixed and transportable/mobile systems.
This ensures that Radtec will have a weather radar
solution suitable for all the weather radar user
community customers, serving the aeronautical,
agricultural and meteorological needs.

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 MOPIENS
Since its establishment in 1997, Mopiens has grown into a leading
contender for development, production and selling of the network
equipment such as RF repeaters for CDMA base station and terminal
and optical repeaters. In 2004, it started the business in the area of
navigational safety equipment for aircraft and had successfully
developed aircraft navigational safety wireless system such as DVOR
and DME independently. Since then, based on their competence and
accomplishments, Mopiens has built its reputation in Korea and at a
global platform. In addition to majority of Korean Airports, the
products are now being supplied to more than 200 airports around the
world. Mopiens is constantly working towards developing world-class
aircraft navigation products by overcoming challenges and paving the
road to innovation in the next generation navigational safety system.

Key products are DVOR, DME and NDB.

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 ARIANNA
Arianna is a company specialized in the design
and manufacture of LED lighting systems.
Arianna is now majority owned by Carel spa, an
Italian multinational company specializing in
electronics for air conditioning and refrigeration
systems, that brings the assurance of solidity and
reliability.
Arianna fittings illuminate roads, roundabouts,
cycle paths, parks and tunnels and bring light into
manufacturing facilities, supermarkets, car parks,
warehouses, large shopping areas and sports
fields.

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 ARGOS
Argos Ingegneria S.p.A. since its foundation has
developed a series of innovative projects, now standard
products, with a wide range of applications in the
sector of airports, allowing to improve regularity,
efficiency and safety of traffic flow.
The set of certified products in the photometry field,
makes Argos today the only company in the world able
to cover the entire sector of airport photometry.
Argos is present with its products, systems and
services in more than 50 airports in Italy and abroad.
Argos key product is a taxiway and PAPI status
verification system, with advanced and feasibility
functionalities (the SMF class).

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 VITROCISET
Vitrociset, with headquarters in Rome, six remote
offices on the national territory and other branches
in Europe, Middle America, Middle East and Africa,
is one of the largest Italian system integrators.
The company is a key player from 1992 for advanced
technologies in Defense, Space, Homeland Security
and Transport & Infrastructures.
Vitrociset offer in the ATM field includes:
• AMHS,
• ARTAS Support & Maintenance)
• Mobile Control Tower
• Meteorological (AWOS, Wind Shear Detection).
• Remote Control and Automation systems
Integration (VBrain Suite)
• Cyber Security (CYCUBE)

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 SCARECROW
Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems Ltd is the world leader
in Human Bird Dispersal for Airside & Non-Aiside
applications, producing bird dispersal systems of the
highest technical standard for airfields and
surrounding areas since 1985.
Scarecrow bird dispersal products, representing state
of the art technology to fully meet the challenging task
of Bird Strike Avoidance, are approved and used by
major civil airports and in military aviation throughout
the world.
The Scarecrow product portfolio includes portable,
fixed, vehicle installed systems suitable for most types
of bird problems.

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 TOPSONIC

Topsonic Systemhaus GmbH is manufacturer of aircraft noise

monitoring systems, environmental information systems and
flight and track analysis systems.
The aircraft noise and flight track monitoring system includes
the noise monitoring station (available in fixed or mobile
configuration), noise & track server, database server.
A web-based software module (TRAVIS - Topsonic TRAck
VISualisation) displays on a map flight tracks together with
measured noise data in the vicinity of an airport, and helps to
extend the airport’s public relations and to improve the
dialogue between residents, complainants and the airport
environmental department.

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 TEKNEL
Teknel is a manufacturing company located
in Rome, specialized in:
• Shelters, with very comprehensive
product lines for Oil&Gas, Defence,
Space and ATC.
• Mobile and Transportable ATC towers
• Power generators, on a range from 10kVA
to 3000kVA, both fixed and portable
(trailer mounted)

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 SIEL
SIEL is an Italian company operating from more than thirty
years in the creation and research of technologies for reliable
energy and for its generation from renewable sources.
Product portfolio includes a series of Uninterruptible Power
Supply (UPS) systems (Green Point, Safepower S, Safepower
Evo, Safepower Modular SPM), with power capacity ranging
from 1 kVA to 1560 kVA, capable of providing clean energy
to the connected load, without interruption, regardless of the
conditions of the supply network; ideal for the protection of
computer networks, telecommunications and critical
systems in general.

SIEL UPS systems are present in various parts of the world

such as Italy, Spain, UK, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, USA,
Thailand, Malaysia, Chile

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