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"Smart" Cameras At JIA For The Super Bowl

First Coast News | December 17 2004

JACKSONVILLE -- It's every traveler's worst nightmare. The terminal is shut down for hours because a suspicious package is discovered or someone breaches a security checkpoint.

Travelers are delayed for hours while the breach is investigated. Maddeningly, the snafu often turns out to be nothing serious.

This scenario has happened at airports across the country in recent years, but Jacksonville International Airport, with help from a local technology company, is hoping it can prevent that type of airport disaster when Super Bowl 39 hits town next February.

They're doing it by installing more than 100 new "smart" security cameras, designed to instantly pinpoint a suspicious bag, or even track down a person going the wrong way down a concourse.

"The cameras are motion-sensitive, and they work in real time to track what security personnel are looking for," says Paul Hackenberry, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration's Jacksonville office.

A $1.3 million grant from the Homeland Security Administration is funding the "Video Flashlight" program at JIA. Another program, "VisionAlert," uses computer vision techniques to analyze video images and identify activities that may represent a security threat.

"We'd be able to more quickly see where a person is headed, if they handed something off to someone, and we can make a quick decision. We may not even have to shut down a concourse or terminal or make passengers go through screening again," says Hackenberry.

Jacksonville-based Duos Technologies, along with another company, Pyramid Vision, worked with the airport and the TSA to install the new system.

Right now, the "smart" cameras are a pilot program. Their effectiveness will be evaluated after the Super Bowl to determine if they'll go into more widespread use at JIA.