Schiphol, Amsterdam’s International Airport, is using IndigoVision’s advanced IP video analytics to prevent accidental or malicious intrusion onto runway and hangar areas. Over 20 million passengers pass through Schiphol each year.
The analytics algorithms run in real time at the camera, ensuring that operations staff in the CCTV Control Room are alerted automatically to intrusions as they are detected.
Seventeen fixed CCTV cameras cover the active airside area of the airport. These are connected to the Control Room via a hybrid fibre and wireless LAN. The analytics mode ‘Virtual Tripwire’ is used to designate unauthorised areas in each camera’s field of view. Whenever a vehicle or person crosses into these areas an alarm is automatically raised, and the appropriate camera view is displayed in the Control Room. Operations staff can also run the same analytics on the recorded video for post-event analysis.
“It is not possible to implement such a system using traditional analogue video systems, because of the distances involved and the need to use real time analytics,” IndigoVision CEO Dr Oliver Vellacott said. “The combination of IP video and wireless networks is opening up a whole new range of applications for CCTV, particularly for site-wide monitoring of rail networks, ports and airports.”
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