TASS- Total Airport Security SystemDissemination Presentation

AERODAYS 2011

Gideon Hazzani-TASS Coordinator

Consortium Partners

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The coordinator

End users Research institutesenterprises ndustry I SMEs

Motivation

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Airport is Sensitive and Strategic Public Place

Total Airport Security Solution

AirplanesAirplanes Control TowerControl Tower Terminals Terminals Hangars Hangars

Cargo Cargo GasolineGasolinePassengersPassengers

CrewCrew

VehiclesVehicles

Airport Security Challenges

Very Attractive Target for Diverse Terrorist Threats

(Conventional and non-conventional)

TASS definition

• The next generation of airport security intelligence system

• Fusion based intelligence system that provides entire airport

security and information sharing solution

4 *AS-CS: Airport Security Control Segment

An Example of Fusion

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X1 X2 X3Zone of

Occurrence

Moving

Caller

Video Surveillance Network

Camera-2visibility

field

Camera-5visibility

field

Camera-6visibility

field

X1 X2 X3

• Automatically guide CCTV cameras

to a specific location based on

target location data as received by

external AVL/APL system

• Auto video tracking after moving

target (cameras soft and hard

handover)

Location based video surveillance

TASS Guiding Attributes

• No intervention with the passengers flow in order not to add delays in the

existing check-in and boarding process

• Minimizing false security alerts

• Integrate in-place airport security technologies

• 3D Visualization (indoor and outdoor)

• State of the art HMI

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End-Users• Airport and Transportation authorities

• Emphasis on daily security (‘security flavor’)

• TASS Fusion oriented to security

• High level of regulation (Security and Service)

• LEAs and Security agencies

• National Security Agency, Airport/Border Police, Customs

• Emphasis on Intelligence (‘Intelligence flavor’)

• TASS fusion oriented to intelligence

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TASS Fusion

Airport and Transportation Authorities

LEAs and Security Agencies

Security flavor Intelligence flavor

Users-End

Test Cases 1. Dec-25-2009: Christmas plot

• Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, 290 passengers

• Al-Qaida terrorist, wearing explosives-lined underwear failed to blow up

2. Oct-29-2010: UPS Air-cargo plot

• Explosive Printer shipment from Yemen to U.S.

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TASS Intelligence flavor:

Prevention before target

arrival to terminal

TASS Security flavor:

Prevention after target

arrival to terminal

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POC Event

• A show of TASS consortium

• Run first TASS prototype, based on threat scenarios which are

related to London Olympic Games

• Location- Heathrow Terminal 5

• When?- Summer 2012 , during or close to the Olympics

• Visitors to the POC trial

– Airports from all Europe, Airport Security officers, LEAs, TASS

consortium members

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TASS WEB Site

www.tass-project.eu

Thank You !

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