A centralised gate network
AEOS gate control allows you to significantly improve your airport’s security and efficiency. It puts your existing gate control equipment onto a network, which you manage centrally, saving time and enabling you to operate gates more easily with fewer personnel. With access control and video monitoring on one system you always have a clear picture of what’s happening, or has happened, at an airport and can react to events quickly. This centralised control also enables you to easily prevent passengers from Schengen and non-Schengen countries becoming mixed and so, in the worst case, the airport needing to be evacuated.
Increased security
As passengers often leave airport zones through sliding doors, this can, without the right system, allow unauthorised people to enter the zone. AEOS prevents this with perimetric control. If someone walks through a door the wrong way, your control room receives a visual and acoustic signal. As well as controlling passenger streams, AEOS also enables you to control and monitor employee and subcontractor access to your airport’s landside and airside. You can use a range of verification methods, including personal access cards, biometrics and video. Also, AEOS links to your HR system. So each person’s access authorisations are updated automatically if, for example, they leave your company or change role.
The International Airport of Weeze in Germany has a new feature in its AEOS access control system to keep people from entering the secure side of the airport.
Together with Nedap, Weeze Airport has found a solution for a problem that many airports have to deal with. And that is how to keep people from freely entering the secure side of the airport. As at any other airport, passengers at Weeze Airport leave the airport through sliding doors behind the section where they the can declare goods. These sliding doors constantly open and close, making it possible for people on the unsecured side to freely enter the secure side of the airport. This poses a potential security risk.
This problem has been solved by Nedap's German business partner GST, who has installed radar above the sliding doors that controls the direction of movements in the area. The radar detects when somebody walks into the area in the opposite direction. This automatically opens an AEOS face in the control room, showing live video images via FTP. The motion sensor even works when several people walk into the right direction and a person tries at the same time to walk from the unsecured to the secure side.
Weeze Airport
On 1 May 2003 the airport started scheduled flights. The numbers of passengers was impressive right from the start. A respectable 207,992 passengers already passed through in the first year and by 2012 this had risen to approximately 3,500,000 travellers. With such large numbers of passengers, Airport Weeze had to find a solution for a problem that many airports have to deal with. And that is how to keep people from freely entering the secure side of the airport.
This illegal return protection system |
Invisible turnstile
As at any other airport, passengers at Airport Weeze leave the airport through sliding doors behind the section where they can declare goods. These sliding doors constantly open and close, making it possible for people on the unsecured side to freely enter the secure side of the airport. This poses a potential security risk and so a need was identified for a reliable ‘turnstile‘ system. The solution was provided by one of Nedap’s German business partners, who installed a radar above the sliding doors that controls the direction of movements in the area. The radar detects when somebody walks into the area in the opposite direction, setting off a visual and acoustic alarm in the control room, so that the security staff can quickly intervene. This illegal return protection system is integrated into the AEOS security management platform and can be compared to an invisible turnstile that functions effectively like an electronic fence.
Automated badge control
AEOS was also used to implement automated badge control. With the module Photo Events, photos and additional data of staff members are displayed in the event monitor of AEOS. This way, the airport security can easily perform visual checks of the crew and anyone else who wants to gain access to the apron and the aircrafts. They are automatically checked, by comparing the photo on their badge with a photo stored in the database. At the same time, the software checks their current access authority and whether the badge is indeed still valid. If it is due to expire, the owner is informed at once so that he has a chance to renew it in time.
IP Video Management
The next step in the process of improving the airport’s security measures is the implementation of AEOS IP Video Management. This AEOS feature is available within AEOS 2.4 and provides a truly native video integration which goes technologically well beyond existing DVR and even open platform based solutions. During the start-up phase, 6 to 10 cameras will be installed at Airport Weeze, which is due to be increased within a few months to 70 cameras. These will record 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The images of the analog cameras will be converted to digital images, after which they can be viewed live or be looked up from the AEOS Video face, called Video Viewer. Thanks to the platform’s flexibility, Airport Weeze can freely decide what type of camera they want to use, the way they want to store the video images, what the quality of the video stream should be, and what and when they want to record. And best of all, all security tasks can be handled from one single management platform
Airport Weeze
Airport Weeze is a unique infrastructure project in West Germany that lies close to the important economic regions of the Ruhr and Rhineland of Germany, and the eastern part of the Netherlands. The airport forms the center of ‘Airport City Weeze’ a business park of 620 ha with a focus on logistics, aviation and leisure. Airport Weeze in its current form is very young. The British have maintained a military air base there since 1954, but left the site in 1999. Two years later a Dutch investor group took over development of the area to implement a new usage concept: out of the former military airport should grow a ‘euregional‘ center for air transport, logistics and industry. Shortly after the handover, a large hangar was converted into a passenger terminal, a new apron was established and the flight operations systems were renovated. German Air Traffic Control set up a tower and on 1 May
2003 the new airport started scheduled flights. The numbers of passengers was impressive right from the start. A respectable 207,992 passengers already passed through in the first year and by 2012 this had risen to approximately 3,500,000 travellers.
