Thousands of people walk in and out of the airports every
day. This makes airports a critical place to be secured and to reduce any
suspicious activities.
Maintaining safety at airports requires a lot of systems
which have continued to improve in the past. To mitigate the risks, there are
processes to manage every step. The passengers and their baggage undergo strict
monitoring and screening to ensure that no suspicious goods arrive at the
airport. Even with the strict monitoring andscreening processes in place,
mishaps happen. This brings to light thatthe airports are vulnerable and prone
tothreats.
With a robust growth of the aviation
industry, the air travel and traffic are continually on the rise. The passengers
expect a seamless journey and the airport authorities wish to keep the premises
secure. This has increased the need for improved communications, automation and
safety procedures.
Various systems have been developed and
deployed to screen the passengers. From behavioral profiling to ticket-purchase
data analysis, every effort was proven ineffective.
However, one aspecthas always been a
grave concern for the airport authorities-- high-risk fliers. This is assessed
after checking their biographical data against terrorist or criminal databases.
These high-risk individuals include suspected or known terrorists, smugglers,
criminals and others.The “no-fly” lists were also created to prevent suspicious
individuals from boarding aircrafts.
Voice alarm, intelligent video, and fire
solutions help airports master the security, safety, and communication
challenges. However, due to the sheer volume of people constantly on the move,
keeping airports secure is a daunting task.
Physical
checkpoints and manual screening were the only methods of managing this
earlier. However, everything is evolving and so is the security process. A
lot of efforts have been made to prevent the high-risk fliers from boarding an
aircraft.
Nebula is an innovative solution
working in this direction. It is aPhysical identity and access management (PIAM) solution with an
ability to integrate various Physical Access Control Systems (PACS).
It solves
the major identity management challenges faced by the organizations, including
onboarding and badging, access management, visitor management and compliance. It helps the organisation manage the
identities of the visitors and their access to the physical security
systems. This system is critical in the airport domainwhere it is
used to ensure that the individuals on the no-fly list are unable to board an
aircraft.
Nebula
has a proprietary workflow “Object of Interest” helps the airports in
implementing an active watchlist feature. The administrators can freely manage identity profiles
with Nebula’s application. They can look up a profile and then have the
capacity to alter, add or delete access to a certain card.
Nebula’s application has built in video streaming
framework. It takes various categories of watchlist images and trains its
streaming layer. It integrates various video surveillance systems via live and
or recorded streams.
After this integration process, the watchlist images
are identified from these steams by the application and an event is raised. The
application then notifies these events through emails and dashboards.
Nebula’s machine learning (ML) and
artificial intelligence (AI) engine empowers the clients with dashboards with
which they can visualize and take right decisions. It helps in
improving efficiency of the processes like identifying from reference images
and learning from video streams.
It also reflects with workflows action of raising
alarms in the application dashboard for site map(s). It even allows the users
to color code the alarms and watch the video of the event during the alarm
period. The application and the workflow process can be crafted as per the
custom business requirements.
Nebula’s proprietary
workflow provides a systematic and new-age technology to effectively secure the
airports from high-risk fliers. It also helps manage incidents by allowing
quick response to potential threats and by monitoring critical areas.
