The multiple roles played by today’s airports pose considerable security challenges. They must therefore meet incredibly demanding criteria with regard to security, safety, communications, and building automation. The security and safety risks at an airport can include fire, terrorism, smuggling, illegal immigration, and theft. Managing them is a daunting task, since many different areas need to be monitored: perimeters, parking structures, terminals and other passenger facilities, aprons, airfields, etc. 

Human Safety: the Number One Priority
Like in many other areas of life, progress is also being made in connection with building, expanding, and renovating airports and their facilities. Because human safety takes absolute priority, the only responsible choice is to take advantage of the best available, state-of-the-art technologies – like the products available from Bosch Security Systems. They are ideal for meeting the security, safety, and communication requirements of airports.

Security, Safety and Effective Communication for Airports
Airports are multifaceted facilities, integrating everything from parking structures and terminal concourses across shopping malls and waiting areas to aprons and runways.

The many challenges at airports include:

• Terrorism in its many possible forms – bomb threats, suicide attacks, sabotage, hijacking of aircraft – needs to be prevented and/or responded to.
• Dealing with fires and explosions
  Special protection for passengers and employees
• Prevention of illegal immigration
• Identification and checking of abandoned bags
• Access control for restricted areas 

Bosch Products and Solutions
Bosch offers a wide range of products and solutions for effectively managing airport security. They let you:

• Efficiently monitor all areas and activities to immediately detect fires, emergencies, and threats
• Detect potentially dangerous individuals before they can cause any trouble
• Make clear announcements
• Conduct fast, controlled evacuations
• Integrate all safety, security, and communications solutions in a building management system for central monitoring and control
• Effectively support all processes, including border checks and special events

Solutions from Bosch Security Systems help meet the security, safety, and communication requirements for airports and aviation as defined by organizations such as the ICAO.

Defending airports from terrorism focuses on dealing with anonymous bomb threats and explosive devices concealed in parked cars, aircraft, cargo, or luggage. The ability to manage these safety and security risks is crucial.

Bosch Advanced Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA)
Enables early detection of suspicious behavior and identification of abandoned luggage. Tracking cameras can help verify or disprove alarms, alerting the security operator as appropriate. A “forensic search” function permits fast retrieval of relevant video sequences.
 
Bosch Surveillance Systems
The Video Management System from Bosch enables complete management of all video surveillance components. High-resolution CCTV cameras can continuously monitor people moving through and spending time in different areas.

An IP-based access control system from Bosch is ideal for keeping unauthorized individuals from entering gates and restricted areas such as airfields and aprons. It supports a large range of readers, and integration with video surveillance makes it possible to capture and record access events. Access violations automatically trigger an alarm. 

We have solutions for all requirements: from the Access Easy Controller, a complete system designed for simplicity and small applications, all the way to the Access Personal Edition, a software package that is used in combination with the intelligent and scalable Access Modular Controller starting with small and midsize enterprises.

The Access Modular Controller is also used in combination with the Access Engine from the Building Integration System (BIS) to meet the requirements of the most demanding projects in terms of size and complexity.

This modularity lets you systematically build the right solution to meet all your access control needs and flexibly scale it up as they grow.

With their direct links to other cities and countries, airports are becoming increasingly popular venues for conferences of all kinds. This includes VIP press conferences hosted at airports for their convenience. The Digital Congress Network (DCN) from Bosch is today’s leading conferencing solution:

• Interpreting facilities for simultaneous translation into up to 32 languages at once
• High-quality sound reproduction
• Choice of wired and/or wireless configurations for maximum flexibility and fast setup
• Recording of all statements and speeches

In order to protect lives and property at airports, it is vital to quickly detect, locate, verify, and contain fires. Terminal halls pose special challenges, with their crowds, high ceilings, large open areas, and long distances to emergency escape routes.

Bosch modular fire panels and detectors are ideal for this and more. They apply multiple intelligent criteria to ensure early, reliable detection – with high immunity to false alarms – and fast responses. A large number of detectors can be connected in loops of up to 3000 m and networked to cover multiple buildings. The panels automatically notify the airport fire brigade, in addition to interfacing with sprinkler, ventilation, and public address systems as well as the Bosch Building Integration System (BIS) to fight fire events of all kinds and coordinate the evacuation of large groups of people.
 
Coordinated Evacuation
In the event of a fire or other emergency event, it is vital to maximize safety by evacuating the stadium. Large-scale evacuations take time, and the situation can quickly become dangerous if panic breaks out. Clear announcements support coordinated evacuation to keep everything under control.

Modular public address and voice evacuation systems from Bosch facilitate this. They let you make announcements in certain zones only or everywhere at once. Crystal-clear sound quality from a wide range of loudspeakers ensures full coverage and audibility throughout the airport.

High-quality public address and voice evacuation systems are essential for dealing with security and safety challenges such as evacuations, making localized and airport-wide gate calls and other announcements, and holding special events such as promotions while integrating with airline databases, gate management systems, etc.

Modular public address and emergency sound systems from Bosch are ideal for all of these applications. They can handle everything from routine announcements to emergency notifications – all with the highest level of reliability and speech intelligibility.

The Praesideo digital public address and emergency sound system from Bosch is suitable for even the largest international airports. It uses a daisy-chain optical system bus that facilitates the use of distributed equipment racks. The system’s built-in monitoring capabilities and redundancy features include a system bus loop and automatic activation of a spare amplifier to ensure reliable operation.

Passengers with luggage can tempt thieves, and stores are vulnerable to shoplifters. There is also a risk of after-hours burglaries with valuables, equipment, cargo, or personal items being stolen from restricted areas such as shops, luggage conveying systems, and cargo handling zones.

Bosch can help deal with this as well, for example with intrusion systems to monitor all doors, vehicle entrances, and perimeters for unauthorized and suspicious persons, and stolen vehicles. If a detector picks up a possible threat, the Bosch Video Management System equipped with high-resolution CCTV cameras and Intelligent Video Analysis comes into play to verify the alarm and enable subsequent forensic searches to identify and nab thieves. 

Bosch’s award-winning sensors use advanced motion detection technology to offer maximum protection from intrusion in all types of premises, while minimizing costly false alarms. Highly reliable and stylishly designed, they offer unrivalled signal processing capabilities. Our Professional Series intrusion detectors use the revolutionary sensor data fusion approach and comply fully with all current EU regulations.

Our product range also covers innovative control panels that meet your needs. Our Easy Series Intrusion Control panel secures private homes and is extremely easy to install. Versatile transmission solutions communicate via landline and cellular telephony, GSM, radio, Internet or intranet and can be integrated into existing systems.

With all of the safety, security, communication, and building automation systems installed in a facility the size of an airport, it is a challenge to efficiently manage and coordinate them all..

The Building Integration System (BIS) from Bosch provides a single Web-based cockpit for monitoring all security, safety, and building management systems. This includes alarm management, fast alarm pinpointing via location maps, and follow-up procedures. It also seamless integrates fire and intrusion alarms, as well as evacuation, access control, CCTV, and building automation systems.

Use of the BIS lets a single operator monitor and control all security systems, in addition to enabling faster responses to emergencies and greater overall effectiveness.