Category: Industry News

Avigilon Corporation, a Motorola Solutions company, has announced that it has extended its video analytics platform to the H4 SL and H4 Mini Dome camera lines with the addition of Unusual Motion Detection (UMD) technology.

The addition of UMD technology in the H4 SL and H4 Mini Dome camera lines offers customers powerful artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities at an entry-level price point. Without any predefined rules or set-up, UMD technology continuously learns what typical activity in a scene looks like, and then detects and flags unusual motion.

Dynasafe has launched their new explosive containment product, DynaSEALR P6M, which provides protection with minimal weight at an affordable price. The chamber fully contains the pressures and fragments released by an explosive. The chamber is rated for a net explosive weight (NEW) of 1 kg, and is gas-tight in the event that an IED contains chemical or biological agents.

Transportability, ease of ingress and egress, and X-ray transparency make the DynaSEALR P6M a practical alternative to larger containment chambers. The DynaSEALR P6M not only allows bomb squads to ingress and egress buildings quickly, but it can also be utilised at a security checkpoint and screening location.

Tahiti Nui has installed RFID tags on life vests on its entire fleet of A340-300 aircraft using EAM RFID’s TagControl Solution. Air Tahiti Nui is using RFID technology to reduce inspection times, to strengthen regulatory compliance and to improve the traceability of cabin safety equipment.

For the A340-300, life vest inspection times previously took five hours and such inspections were done every three months with six months’ anticipation on replacement of the life vest. With RFID, these inspection times are reduced to 10 minutes and are performed on a monthly basis. This kind of inspection reduces removal anticipation to just two months.

The project involved employee training, which EAM administered as a combination of on-site training in Papeete and offsite training over interactive conferencing in both English and French languages.

SKYPRO has developed airport friendly shoes that uses a shank made of nylon instead of metal to ensure that the wearer can pass through archway metal detectors without setting off alarms.

Every day millions of passengers, crewmembers, and airport-based staff take their shoes off and walk barefoot through metal detectors, exposing feet to all kinds of bacteria. It is the perfect environment for the contraction of foot conditions, such as eczema, verrucae, athlete’s foot and other infections. Indeed, there are more than 100 different species of fungi and other bacteria present in our feet. Recent studies show that these fungi inhabit one of three areas: plantar heel, toenails and toe web. Employers are now encouraged to include quality footwear in uniforms to better protect the health of staff; nowhere is this more important than at an airport. With up to 42% of the adult population affected by foot pain at any given time, which accounts for close to ¼ of the world population, minimising the need for industry employees to remove their footwear can only be advantageous, let alone make the daily routine much more comfortable.

Healthcare specialists have identified late summer as a time when people are more prone to fungi, just when passenger loads are at their peak. Cabin crew and airport professionals are always in contact with these hazards given the nature of their work.

SKYPRO shoes are security alarm free, breathable, anti-microbial and designed to provide support. Using natural leathers, the shoes also permit good sweat release which also makes for healthy feet.

HID Global®, a worldwide provider of identity solutions, has announced that the Government of Argentina has selected HID Global to upgrade its ICAO electronic passport to a newer generation that will reduce costs, improve security and enhance the reliability of data-reading at border control points.

The Argentine Government is transitioning its electronic booklet from a printed antenna to a new copper wire antenna, which is more reliable, having a stronger bond with the chip holding the traveller’s data, and therefore reducing the failure rate. The vast majority of the ePassports around the world use copper wire antennas.

Supporting stronger security elements, the booklet also features an electronic cover built with a radio-frequency shield. A thin layer of special material disturbs radio communication with the passport antenna when the booklet is closed, impeding it from being read or stolen by people with harmful intentions. It decreases the risk of unauthorised access to chip data when passports are not inspected.

Dubai Technology Partners LLC (DTP), a systems integrator for the aviation industry, has announced that it has joined forces with Xovis, a provider of people-flow monitoring solutions, in helping improve operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport.

Integrated with DTP’s desk planner solution, the Xovis Passenger Tracking System (Xovis PTS) will allow Abu Dhabi Airports, the operators of Abu Dhabi International Airport, to improve passenger flow and reduce waiting times in critical areas such as check-in, security, immigration and baggage claim. Xovis PTS helps airport operators dynamically manage airport resources and ultimately increase capacity and passenger satisfaction.

After a successful trial at a check-in area in Terminal 3, DTP, using Xovis’ Smart IoT Technology, deployed 455 Xovis 3D sensors in 19 sites in T1, T1A, and T3.

FLYSEC is an EU Horizon 2020 project in which ICTS Europe Systems (in partnership with ICTS UK and PQ&C) participated. ICTS’ Mobile Check-in Unit and SmartQ products were involved for delivery of proof of concept in a real operational environment at the airports of Luxembourg and Schönhagen (Berlin), with great success. The project aims to provide an innovative process facilitating risk-based screening to achieve a measurable increase throughout airports, deployment and integration of new technologies, repurposing existing solutions, and improving passenger facilitation and customer service.

Telecom Liechtenstein (FL1) has announced a contract to protect Geneva Airport against electronic eavesdropping and disruptions to mobile networks. FL1 Overwatch is a service specifically designed to protect companies or information-sensitive individuals. The system reports any detected attempts at espionage directly to the Mobile Security Alarm Centre in Liechtenstein, which triggers alerts and countermeasures.

Specifically, so-called IMSI catchers (fake mobile communication base stations) or jamming transmitters can be identified, located and analysed before countermeasures are taken. Due to the high concentration of large international organisations and embassies in the Geneva area, Geneva Airport as a hub is frequented to a particularly high degree by exposed persons with highly confidential knowledge. By using FL1 services, Geneva is the first airport to offer its visitors full integrity of mobile networks in critical areas and can therefore ensure enhanced protection of mobile communications as well as mobile devices used by passengers, employees and security personnel against electronic attacks. In addition, the technology protects against disruption of operations by identifying and preventing such attack attempts at an early stage.

As a result of cooperation between Berlin’s GSMK, a provider of mobile network security, and FL1, security technologies that until now were only accessible to telecommunication network operators and public authorities have now also been made available for the first time to companies and organisations as a managed service.

Thanks to the strategic partnership with parent company A1 Telekom Austria Group, FL1 has access to the latest technologies and an international network. Through its strategic business unit FL1 Cyber Security, FL1 provides large national and international organisations in Europe with next-generation managed security services from its base in Liechtenstein.

In response to a request from its long-standing client Icelandair, STG Aerospace has designed, developed and patented a powerful and simple saf-Tsign® product, introduced to upgrade dated passenger service units (PSU), complete with a switchable Wi-Fi sign.

Through a powerful combination of photoluminescent and LED technology, the new PSU lens removes the need to backlight signs by illuminating them with blue glowing photoluminescence, ensuring they are always visible even in low light and dark conditions.

Sigurður Ingi Ljótsson, Industrial Designer at Icelandair, said: “Our long-standing relationship with STG Aerospace made them a first choice for this PSU upgrade project. By changing the switched no-smoking symbol for a Wi-Fi available one, we can let passengers know in the day or night that Wi-Fi connectivity is available on our planes.”

In addition to the practical and aesthetic benefits, the newly patented PSU lens is a lighter, simpler, retrofit solution that can be customised to provide effective on-brand messaging to all passengers on-board.

As key national infrastructure and a major transport hub, Gatwick Airport takes the challenge of maintaining the safety and security of its passengers, visitors and employees seriously. To this end, it initiated the Gatwick Airport Integrated Security Project, which combines people and process change with powerful technology enablement and a standardised set of operational procedures and ways of working. The project brings together the airport security and operations teams, Sussex Police, Border Force and many other interested parties.

The aim of the project was to use all available security elements to deliver a fully automated and rapid response solution.

Qognify’s Situator is the technology enabler at the heart of the project. It provides a consolidated view and full management of any situation or emergency. The additional integration of Qognify’s Suspect Search real-time video analytics proprietary software means Gatwick Airport is now able to rapidly identify and pinpoint a suspected criminal/terrorist or find a lost person in real time.

Robin Lomax, IT Project Manager, CCTV Refresh Project Gatwick Airport explains: “The power of the CCTV solution is that it gives Gatwick Airport superior situational awareness and allows us to command, adapt and respond to any security event, before, during and after it occurs. It enables a quicker speed of response, a more appropriate size of response and it allows us to play back and learn lessons from the incident after the fact.”