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Airport Security Project

Security breaches at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints are infrequent, but nonetheless result in significant passenger delays and expense to both airport authorities and airlines. A breach typically results in the closure of an entire airport concourse and suspended flights, which, in turn, seriously impacts the operation of other airports as well. In recent years, this scenario has played out time and again all across the country, but with help from Duos Technologies, airports can now take measures to avoid such occurrences, and potentially to stave off something much worse.

In order to prevent such a closure and the subsequent disruption and expense, three key security capabilities are required: quickly and efficiently respond and react to the occurrence of a security breach; locate the individual suspected to have caused the breach, review and record the individual’s activities from the moment the breach occurred through to apprehension.

Partnering with the Sarnoff Corporation and the Jacksonville Airport Authority, Duos Technologies, Inc. designed, developed, and installed a leading edge, turn-key security visualization system at this International Airport. Duos Technologies integrated Pyramid Vision Technologies Video Flashlight™ and VisionAlert™ applications so that through the use of more than 100 real time, motion-sensitive video security cameras security personnel can instantly pinpoint a suspicious bag, automatically detect intruders that breach a security checkpoint or loiter in a designated area, or even track a person going the wrong way down a concourse.

Video Flashlight™ is a computer-aided visualization platform that combines live video images with three-dimensional facility models to produce an intuitive security display. It replaces traditional banks of CCTV monitors with an integrated, easy-to-navigate view that provides security operators a real-time comprehensive picture of their tactical situation. VisionAlert™ uses computer vision techniques to analyze video images and identify activities that may represent a specific set of threat scenarios.

Using Duos' system of intelligent, real time, motion-sensitive video security cameras bundled with a computer-aided visualization platform, security personnel now have an effective and efficient tool to conduct security breech investigations.