The system uses a fast-response illuminance transmitter to accurately measure light according to human visual perception. It includes a self-calibrating 16-channel signal conditioning circuit and a high-speed, high-precision A/D conversion circuit. This setup allows for continuous automatic data collection, ensuring the system adapts to various airfield lighting intensities while maintaining long-term, high-precision measurements.

The system uses a high-resolution, high-speed linear array CCD (2K resolution, 18kHz scan rate) with a photoelectric incremental encoder (1024 pulses/turn) for distance measurement. This setup quickly detects the timing and lateral offset when the test vehicle passes over airfield lights, avoiding errors from traditional 11-channel photoelectric detection methods. It reliably corrects cumulative measurement errors and lateral offsets, improving the accuracy of airfield light intensity measurements.

The system features zero-point self-check functions for sensors and data collection to ensure stability, as well as a power-on self-check to ensure reliability. It corrects for cosine errors and stray light (daylight, ambient light), ensuring accurate and consistent data. The system can save, query, playback, and print historical trends of airfield lights, generating electronic reports that include the status of each light, summary statistics, and details of non-compliant lights. It also supports re-testing, manual data entry for light replacement, and marking the status of re-tested or replaced lights.

The light intensity testing software, developed internally, has a user interface and labels in simplified Chinese. It assesses if light intensity complies with the current "Technical Standards for Civil Airport Airfield" guidelines. It can update its evaluation criteria as per new or revised standards. Moreover, the software is customizable to meet specific user requirements.