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as the airport expands.

The Symphony platform also allows the airport to integrate its video surveillance with the array of other security systems also operating on the network, such as access control, fire alarm and intrusion.

In addition to the security element, the airport was also looking for a platform that could handle analytics deployed for business intelligence and management support, according to Aimetis VP of enterprise sales, Jurgen Heller. For example, Heller said the airport wanted software that could measure the length of a line at a ticket coun-

ter when a crowd forms and read license plates on cars entering parking garages. Symphony offers management of surveillance but also analytics, according to Heller. “I’m not aware of any other company that has software on the market today which can do both.”

The ability to manage the analytics side of the equation is key

to the unique plans the airport operator has for the surveillance system. As the airport has a sizable shopping area, the airport operator has planned to rent or sell video surveillance to shop merchants on a monthly basis for both security and business intelligence purposes.

Aimetis is headquartered in Canada, but the company has

an office in Frankfurt, and over half of its total business is now done in Europe, according to Moir, with IP-friendly Germany and Sweden accounting for the bulk of that. SSNE

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biometrics, who tried to tackle these markets before fully developing their technology. Agnitio, however, has grown organically, having been founded in 2004 as the product of a decade of univer-sity-based research. “Once technology is developed and robust, you can bring it to the corporate market,” he said.

Despite the current economic crisis, Martínez is upbeat:“This year is a very good year for pilot projects, and implementation will come in 2010.” SSNE

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has been identified as one of the top 11 initiatives of the alliance’s Defense Against Terrorism (DAT) program. The working group on that within NATO, which is being led by Belgium, is looking to improve surveillance sensor interfaces to react to potential threats, and as part of that process, Williams said “important cooperation” between NATO and industry has been initiated.

The main conference broke into several streams and workshops. and a big crowd turned out for the CCTV and Surveillance workshop to hear talks on the application of different surveillance technologies. One of the most interesting topics concerned millimeter wave radar.

Andrew Rosenthal, head of the UK-based Navtech Radar, presented radar technology from his company that works in concert with CCTV to control PTZ cameras and follow intruders or events in real time. The radar technology is deployed like a beam from a lighthouse, Rosenthal explained, “scanning for movement” in a user-defined detection zone. Once movement is detected, CCTV cameras are activated and pointed in the right direction for a visual ID. Benefits of radar, according to Rosenthal, include the fact that it can work in all kinds of weather and lighting conditions and avoids reliance upon manned monitoring of CCTV images.

Radar technology is suitable for everything from VIP residential and estate applications to critical infrastructure sites such as power stations, oil refineries and pipelines, to transport hubs like airports, railways and port and harbors, Rosenthal said. SSNE