User:Ronaus99/Airport Exit Lane

Airports, and similar facilities with high volumes of pedestrian traffic, often employ open exit passageways which allow for quick movement of people out of the secured area without physical barriers such as doors or gates. One or more guards are posted at these exits to monitor passageway activity. The guards’ main purpose is to ensure that no one circumvents the security screening stations by traveling the wrong way through the exit into the secured area, and to detect any items that may be tossed into the secure side from the public side. Guards have on occasion failed to detect wrong-way travel through the exit passageway in a timely manner. Breaches at airport concourse exit lanes, whether intentional or unintentional, are rare, but the consequences are dire. In recent years, such breaches have resulted in passenger re-screening, flight delays and airport or terminal evacuations. Costs to the airports and airlines are staggering and can cost millions of dollars. Controlling wrong-way entry into the secured area by using physical barriers hampers exit flow progress, and slows down hurried passengers. Therefore, passive, unobtrusive methods are preferred. A number of systems are available currently that attempt to provide exit lane monitoring. These systems are usually video-based, and are limited in the types of objects that can be detected and the environments in which detection can be achieved. Microwave technologies have been employed in an attempt to provide exit lane security, but they have not proven to be successful as a stand alone device. Effective Airport Exit Lane is inclusive of guards and technology which: •	Automatically monitors pedestrian passageway activities for wrong-way travel into the secured area without impeding exit traffic flow. •	Is designed to augment and assist, not hinder existing systems, process and procedures for regulating movement of people and threats in and around an exit or remote area. •	Will generate alarm and warning indicators when wrong-way movement is detected, or if a person or object is detected loitering in a zone for a specified amount of time. •	Automatically records warning and alarm events and instantaneously provides photo printouts for immediate use in intruder identification and forensic analysis. •	Provide measures that will preclude drastic security measures such as airport evacuation.