The company’s recognition technology is installed in Russia at Moscow’s Kremlin, Sberbank - the largest bank in Russia – the storage at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and Norilsk airport security. The company also has installed technology overseas, including at a museum in Qatar, an electronics manufacturing plant in Japan, and a commercial bank in Spain.
Vanderlande Airports are legally bound to provide a safe and secure environment in terminal buildings for both operators and passengers. That means identifying and addressing all the possible security threats. One of these could potentially be the baggage handling system, which directly links the landside and airside areas. Despite all the security measures, there have been a few media reports of
“…a reliable, space and cost effective way to detect human activity between bags, is using two complementary detection techniques: human body temperature and non- baggage shape…”
people – mainly children – accidentally travelling on a conveyor belt from the check-in area to the baggage hall where they were discovered, fortunately unharmed, by operators. Vanderlande Industries has investigated the market for possible techniques to solve this potential safety and security issue. Traditional detection systems are not always able to identify security threats in real time. CCTV systems provide only passive recording capabilities, with little if any active monitoring. Motion and heat detection systems such as simple infra-red sensors are even less effective. They can easily be triggered by a suitcase that is still warm after being sealed in foil, for example, which makes them
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virtually useless in identifying real security threats. Even worse, the false alarms they generate consume scarce resources and divert attention. And in a world of heightened security, false alarms are worse than none at all because they can make security personnel ignore all potential threats. Research, also based on practical experience, shows that a reliable, space and cost effective way to detect human activity between bags, is using two complementary detection techniques: human body temperature and non-baggage shape. In practice this is achieved by a vision system comprised of an infrared and an RGB camera and special classification software. This technology results in real- time alerts with low false alarm rates. The vision system and CCTV cameras are installed over each check-in collector line, just before the landside/airside boundary. In case a possible intrusion is detected by the vision system, the baggage handling system is locally stopped, and where necessary security doors can be closed automatically to prevent further intrusion.
At the same time, the images from both the CCTV cameras are presented to an operator in the baggage control room. Based on the images, the operator can decide whether a real intrusion has actually taken place. The operator can then activate the emergency circuit of the baggage handling system to prevent persons from being injured and dispatch a search team, or, in case of a false alarm, reactivate the baggage handling system.
IntelliDAR™
Baggage systems are not the only way to access airside areas of airports. Preventing perimeter intrusion detection is still of fundamental importance and, granted the length of most airport perimeters, the ability to automate the detection of human and vehicle activity in controlled zones is essential.
Aspen-Pitkin County Airport in the US was faced with this very challenge. “Vehicle/Pedestrian deviations into the movement area by unauthorised persons has caused the FAA to require that the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport actively take steps to curtail these incursions or
face regulatory action”, said Jim
Elwood, Airport Director, Aspen-Pitkin County Airport. They needed an intrusion detection solution for the perimeter adjoining the movement and non-movement areas of the airport and Searidge came up with the solution.
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The area adjoining the movement and non-movement areas had been identified as a hot spot for vehicle and pedestrian deviations; when a human or vehicle crosses from the non-movement area to the movement area without Air Traffic Control clearance the incident is documented as a vehicle/pedestrian deviation by the controllers in the tower. Searidge‘s intelligent video platform IntelliDAR™ will then automatically alert airport operations and security personnel of an intrusion or impending intrusion. The Searidge intrusion detection solution is a scalable system that provides the security operator with features such as intrusion detection and tracking, audible and visual alerts, real-time video feeds of the target(s) detected and video archiving for incident review, investigations and training.
Panomera® Huge areas can now be monitored with just a single camera system. One such innovative development that allows a completely ‘new view’ goes by the name of Panomera®, manufactured by the German company Dallmeier.
Whether on the airfield or in the hangar, the terminal buildings, car parks or access roads, a wide variety of premises must be monitored around the clock. In particular, expansive areas such as airfields are especially challenging for video surveillance. In the past, in order to adequately monitor the entire area, it was necessary to use a number of cameras installed in a whole range of locations. Lots of cameras and lots of installation sites, meaning high requirements for the infrastructure. That is one of the disadvantages. The other disadvantage is the fact that despite oodles of cameras, in most cases, a ‘grand overview’ is still not provided. This is because even top- notch wide-angle cameras reach their limits when they have to capture an entire airfield. And especially in situations that require zooming into the picture and recognising details at a substantial distance, even with a 12-megapixel camera the image very quickly becomes pixelly and blurry.
Panomera®, a multifocal sensor system, was specifically developed for
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