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Rapiscan Recieves $7 Million
Manchester Order
Rapiscan Systems, a division of OSI Systems, Inc. has announced that it has received a
contract for approximately $7 million from Manchester Airport Group (MAG) for multiple
units of the Rapiscan RTT120 CT system for high-speed hold baggage screening (HBS).
The contract award included an initial deposit of approximately $1.7 million. Under
the terms of the contract, Rapiscan Systems is to deliver the systems starting in fiscal
year 2008 and the customer has an option for additional systems through 2011. If fully
2D Barcode
exercised, the option would bring the total value of the contract to approximately $40
million.
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The Rapiscan RTT120 has been designed to screen up to 1,500 bags per hour, or
up to 4 times the speed of the currently deployed certified CT systems in U.S. airports.
at Belfast City
The Rapiscan RTT120 utilises a patented solid-state design that eliminates the need for
a rotating mechanical gantry.
Customer Service Director of MAG, Mr. Mike Fazackerly, stated Manchester was the
Belfast City has become the first UK airport first airport in the world 1996, to deploy CT technology for Hold Baggage Screening.
to implement RT-SCAN to enhance security “Having more experience with this type of technology than other airport management
and speed up the validation of 2D barcodes groups, we studied the benefits of the RTT 120 closely and were convinced this
on home-printed boarding passes. technology represents a major step forward in security detection systems in terms of
Developed by Real Time Engineering, both efficiency and cost.”
the UK’s leading aviation and IT consul-
tancy, RT-SCAN allows airports to validate
all of the information on home-printed
boarding passes at security checkpoints.
Vertigo X-ray Launched by ScanLogik
The home-printed passes include a 2D State-of the-art technology has been applied an innovative approach to new product
barcode, which stores flight and pas- to the latest series of X-ray security screen- design – the products outer casing is
senger details in a standard IATA format, ing systems, the ‘Vertigo’ series designed European styled so it will offer a more aes-
and meets all of the UK Department for and manufactured by ScanLogik in the UK. thetic look when the product is positioned
Transport guidelines. With a tunnel opening of 610mm wide in places such as airport terminals.
Staff at security checkpoints simply by 468mm high the real differentiator this In addition to the increased X-ray
scan the new boarding passes to check product is going to offer operators is its image resolution the ‘Vertigo’ series also
flight, passenger, terminal, date and time unique high quality, high-resolution X-ray incorporate ScanLogik’s uWeave GPRS
details, and are automatically alerted when images. The system is configured with vari- Technology communication that monitors
duplicate or fraudulent boarding passes able zoom enabling organic and inorganic the vital signs of the X-ray unit and uploads
are presented, thereby preventing unau- separation. Further Deep Focus software the data to a secure customer analysis
thorised airside access. also making threat objects more apparent, portal for full compliance reporting and
essential in the complex bag scenario. automatic escalation of fault analysis can
ScanLogik’s team has also come up with take place.
Smiths Win €10m Contract from Belgian Customs
Belgian Customs has placed a €10 million its kind to be deployed in Europe. a two-lane screening process, allowing
order for Smiths Heimann Cargo Vision The systems will be deployed over the Belgian Customs to scan two vehicles at
(HCV) systems. The systems will be used next 12 months at the ports of Antwerp the same time.
to help customs officers find contraband and Zeebrugge, where they will be used to Belgium has also ordered the high-
and other illicit goods hidden in cargo. The check import and export cargo transported energy mobile cargo screening system
HCV system is able to penetrate thick metal in trucks and containers. The equipment HCV-Mobile that can screen more than
containers, X-ray the contents and then dis- will be housed in specially constructed 25 loaded trucks and containers per hour
tinguish organic cargo from non-organic in a buildings, inside which the trucks will be and generates high-resolution images of
colour-coded image. It is the first system of scanned. One of the fixed systems has the cargo.
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