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MATE's Analytics Siemens Awarded Baggage Handling
Integrate with Hirsch System Contracts for Washington and
Security Systems San Francisco
MATE-Intelligent Video and Hirsch Electronics Siemens announced it was awarded a €7 million contract from Clark Construction Group, LLC
have announced the completion and for the engineering, manufacturing and integration of a baggage handling system at Washington
availability of their integration empowering the Dulles International Airport’s International Arrivals Building.
award-winning Velocity™ Security Siemens will install, in the next three years, six new inclined plate claim carousels with their
Management System with MATE's Behavior associated remote feeds and one new line for odd-sized items. Siemens will also be responsible for
Watch™ video content analysis capabilities to the modifications of the existing inbound conveyor segments to accommodate the proposed
deliver intelligent surveillance and physical alterations within the existing bag room and the existing South Bag Maintenance Diagnostics System.
security convergence. Additionally, Siemens Mobility Division has been awarded a €21 million contract from
Behavior Watch turns nearly any camera - IP America’s leading general builder, Turner Construction Company, to design, supply and install a
or analogue - into an intelligent sensor able to new baggage handling system as part of San Francisco International Airport’s Terminal 2
detect intrusion, suspicious objects (e.g., renovation project. Additionally, the contract includes the operation and maintenance of the
backpack), removed objects (e.g., a painting), system for two years. The system is expected to be ready for customer acceptance in late 2010.
and undesirable behaviour (e.g., loitering). Fourteen new check-in counters are to be set up for domestic flights. The scope of supply includes
The server-based Behavior Watch sends real- approx. 3,000 meters of belt conveyor with around 550 drives and four explosive detection system
time alarms and alerts to the Velocity Security machines for 100% baggage screening. Additionally, six makeup devices for planeside loading and
Management System which performs the unloading as well as four claim devices for passenger handling will be installed.
appropriate actions such as notifying guards
and authorities, executing pre-programmed
actions (e.g., lock-down, sirens, etc.), and Sepura Secures Bangkok
logging event details.
MATE's powerful video analytics detection
Airport Rail Link
features, combined with Hirsch's access
control, alarm monitoring, badging, smart Sepura digital TETRA radios are to be used on the new high-speed Bangkok Airport Rail Link,
cards, biometrics and now intelligent video, which is one of the most advanced projects of its kind in the world, taking only 15 minutes to
provides a truly converged security solution transfer passengers from the city centre to Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
with multiple end-user benefits. The contract was secured by Siemens, Sepura’s Partner in Thailand, to supply both hand-held and
in-vehicle radios. The sales win follows successes at some of the world’s most modern airports in
India and the Middle East and transport networks in Poland, Russia, Sweden and France.
The radios enable drivers, baggage handling, security and administration staff to
communicate clearly, reliably and securely in either voice or data, to assist in providing an
efficient service and communication to passengers. Instant communication will be available
First Sales of anywhere, from the control centre to the stations and onboard the trains.
3DX-Ray to India
The rail link, whose completion is expected by the end of the second quarter this year, is
being built on an elevated track across the city’s most populated areas. It is projected to handle
680,000 passengers a day, offering city check-in to reduce airport waiting times. Expansion of
Image Scan has received orders of £200,000 the airport is set to rise to 100 million passengers a year as Thailand becomes an increasingly
for its security products, including its first direct popular destination or stop-over.
sales into India.
Following the recent terrorist attacks that
occurred in Mumbai in November 2008, Image Smiths Awarded $2 Million
Scan has secured orders for its unique AXIS-
3D® X-ray baggage screening system and for
TSA Contract
its portable X-ray FlatScan-TPXi system. Both Smiths Detection has received a $2 million order from the Transportation Security
are destined for showcasing the latest security Administration (TSA) completed in November 2008 for SABRE 4000 hand-held trace
technology at Delhi’s principal railway station. explosives detectors. These lightweight systems can detect trace amounts of substances from
In addition to the order from India, Image either particle or vapour samples.
Scan sold a further 10 FlatScan-TPXi units to Currently TSA is utilising more than 4,500 Smiths Detection desktop trace detectors at airport
Thailand and Egypt. security checkpoints across the nation.
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