The Gatwick Airport Integrated Security project sought to use all available security elements to deliver response on the site.
Qognify Situator is the technology at the heart of the Gatwick project. It provides a consolidated view and full management of any situation or emergency. The additional integration of Qognify’s Suspect Search real-time video analytics proprietary software to this integrated network of security systems, means Gatwick is now able to identify and pinpoint a suspected criminal or terrorist, or find a lost person in real-time.
An aim was the standardisation of operations and management across the airport. Security teams at the terminals and facilities collaborate with Sussex Police, Border Force and others, for the safety of people and assets, along with full compliance and auditing abilities. The whole project helps to support smooth operations and minimize downtime on a busy site.
By using a mix of Qognify’s situational management and real-time video analytics, the airport has an automated security system, the product developers say, whether against terrorism, locating misplaced items and finding a lost child. Security at Gatwick can now identify any issue and mobilise to wherever it is needed faster than before.
Robin Lomax, IT Project Manager, CCTV Refresh Project Gatwick Airport says: “The power of the CCTV solution is that it gives Gatwick Airport superior situational awareness and allows us to command, adapt and respond to any security event, before, during and after it occurs. It enables a quicker speed of response, a more appropriate size of response and it allows us to play back and learn lessons from the incident after the fact.”
Photo courtesy of Gatwick.
