Mon, Mar 01, 2004
Company Will Install Bomb Detection Gear At Frankfurt
Airport
Smiths Detection has received an
order from the German Ministry of the Interior for automatic
explosives detection systems, valued at more than EUR 20 million,
to be installed at Frankfurt Airport. The systems include the
detection tomography system, HI-SCAN 10080 EDtS, along with
comprehensive network-integration for x-ray image evaluation of
hold baggage.
Fraport AG will operate the systems on behalf of the German
Federal Border Guard (BGS) at Frankfurt Airport's Terminals 1 and
2, where they will replace machines currently situated in front of
the check-in counters. Installation will be completed in 2007.
This order follows a number of similar airport projects where
Smiths Detection, through its x-ray manufacturing operation Smiths
Heimann, implemented fully automatic multi-level system solutions
for hold baggage screening. These include Munich's new Terminal 2,
Zurich and Brussels airports.
The automatic HI-SCAN 10080 EDtS is a so-called Level-1
inspection system that can inspect up to 1,800 bags per hour for
explosives. As the majority of bags are cleared in this process,
unsuspicious bags are directly transported to the aircraft, whereas
suspicious baggage is further inspected. Centrally and
strategically grouped in the airport, dispersed workstations for
image evaluation facilitate quick and reliable analyses of x-ray
baggage images, without delaying checked and transfer baggage
flows.
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