Surveillance system provider CBC (Europe), under its Ganz branded portfolio, has supplied its tracking/surveillance early warning detection system to protect Porto Airport in northern Portugal, the country’s third busiest airport in terms of both airplane operations and annual passenger numbers. Working in conjunction with thermal and optical cameras, the detection system provides immediate alerts to the airport’s security team of any potential intruder’s presence at the site perimeter.
Surveillance system provider CBC (Europe), under its Ganz branded portfolio, has supplied its tracking/surveillance early warning detection system to protect Porto Airport in northern Portugal, the country's third busiest airport in terms of both airplane operations and annual passenger numbers. Working in conjunction with thermal and optical cameras, the detection system provides immediate alerts to the airport's security team of any potential intruder's presence at the site perimeter.
Installed by local systems integrator Maxiglobal, a solutions partner of CBC in Portugal, the system used at Porto Airport is the ideal choice for large-area perimeter detection, where there is a need for early warning intruder detection and real-time tracking of people and vehicles as they enter the protected area. The detection system provides the airport with 36-degree radar detection up to 800-meter-radius per unit, allowing an audible and visual alarm to be raised to alert security staff to respond and avoiding the need to monitor control room screens constantly.
The detection system can independently control up to five separate PTZ cameras, enabling it to display and track multiple threats simultaneously. At Porto Airport, the system is combined with optical and thermal surveillance, providing all-round security using multiple and integrated technologies. The thermal/optical cameras combine the detection capabilities of thermal IR imaging with the detailed capture of visible-light surveillance. These dual cameras can observe people, animals and vehicles without the need for artificial lighting, providing images in fog, mist, rain and snow conditions. The optical imaging advantages of cameras include 360-degree rotation and a tilting head to eliminate blind spots.