Nice Systems, announced that the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Airports (also known as Los Angeles World Airports, or LAWA) has completed its implementation of Nice open-platform situation management offering. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) selected Nice solution in 2010 for its new consolidated Airport Response Coordination Center (ARCC) at the LAX. The LAX ARCC is the coordination hub for all LAX airport operations and response activities.
Nice Systems, announced that the City of Los Angeles' Department of Airports (also known as Los Angeles World Airports, or LAWA) has completed its implementation of Nice open-platform situation management offering. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) selected Nice solution in 2010 for its new consolidated Airport Response Coordination Center (ARCC) at the LAX. The LAX ARCC is the coordination hub for all LAX airport operations and response activities.
LAX is considered to be the seventh busiest airport by passenger traffic. Nice management is fusing various safety and security operations systems into a cohesive platform, analyzing and correlating data to streamline operations and help LAX enhance its situational awareness and response capabilities to address multiple types of operational challenges, emergency situations, aviation incidents and security threats in real time. Nice open architecture will be leveraged to integrate more than a dozen third-party systems in the new ARCC. These include video surveillance systems, access control, radio and telephony communications systems, video walls, surveillance, computer aided dispatch, geographic information system, emergency/mass notification, PDA servers, a global aviation notification system, life safety/security command software, an airport Part 139 compliance system, and The National Center for Crisis and Continuation Coordination solutions for 24/7 proactive incident information.
Nice solution will enable LAX officials to view multilayered information on an intuitive map-based interface. The system is capable of distilling complex sets of information into a common operating picture and then overlaying it on a map, so LAX officials will be able to get a real-time visual of what's going on, by simultaneously viewing the different "plots" of an incident, whether it involves aircraft on a runway, vehicles on an airfield, or other tracked assets in terminals or on airport roadways. ARCC personnel are also able to interact with objects on the map-based interface to access real-time information to respond immediately and effectively.
"LAX is a major airport for one of the most populous metropolitan areas, and as such we encounter many daily operational challenges, from the ordinary to the unexpected, many of which require real-time response and impact," said Jacqueline Yaft, Deputy Executive Director of Operations and Emergency Management for LAWA. "LAX will use Nice solution to achieve its vision of taking operations and incident management to the next level by improving situational awareness and automating our response plans."