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» Press Releases
January 10, 2006
Continuing its innovation in airport security, the Houston Airport System today announced that this month its two commercial airports - George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport - will be the first in the nation to receive the sophisticated new perimeter and intrusion detection system known as Radar Video Surveillance (RVS).
This new safety technology, which will be supplied by Honeywell International, has the capability of tracking ground-based moving targets.
RVS, a software system originally developed by Honeywell Aerospace and used to protect ports and track missiles, was adapted for ground use, and will be used to monitor the airports' perimeters. In addition, both airports will serve as a beta site for Honeywell's Advanced Video Processing System (AVPS), which monitors and analyzes certain behaviors captured by video. Combined, these two mechanisms will provide the airport system with the most advanced surveillance airport capabilities in the United States.
Both AVPS and RVS will compliment the airport-system's already well-regarded Airport Rangers program, as well as its many other security mechanisms. The Airport rangers program is a unique, mounted security-patrol-system that enables a badged surveillance team to patrol Bush Intercontinental Airport's 11,000 acre perimeter on horseback.
"As a leader in the aviation industry, nothing is more important to the Houston Airport System than providing a safe and dynamic air travel infrastructure," said Mark Mancuso, deputy director of Public Safety & Technology for the Houston Airport System. "Yet we know that the best way to achieve this is not by simply reacting to incidents after-the-fact or by jumping on the latest trend, but by really taking a hands-on-approach to understanding the needs of our airports. This new technology provides the right kind of surveillance system we need."
In the case of Bush Intercontinental, the RVS system will monitor an area of 30-plus miles. AVPS will be deployed in areas where ground based radar may be obstructed by buildings and or towers. The project will use a variety of cameras as well as sophisticated fixed and PTZ FLIR thermal cameras which will allow the operators to view miles of the airports perimeter. The cameras will be linked to geospatial maps allowing for easy evaluation of targets detected by both ground based radar and video analytics.
Installation is set to begin this month, and will take approximately six to eight months to be completed.
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The Houston Airport System served more than 44.8 million passengers in 2004. It is the 4th-largest multi-airport system in the U.S. and the 6th-largest in the world. Bush Intercontinental is the world's 12th-busiest airport. For more information visit www.fly2houston.com.
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