All eyes on you at IGI airport

New Delhi: Every time you board a flight at the Delhi airport, you will be watched, that, too, on a giant screen.
With the opening of the new Terminal 3 (T3) at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport in July, a new Airport Operations Control Centre (AOCC) will kick into action. Built next to the massive T3 building, the AOCC will have a 10X5 metre wall screen, where each movement at every nook and cranny of the airport will be monitored.
Both the AOCC and its video wall, private airport operator Delhi International Airport Ltd. (DIAL) claims, are the biggest in Asia.
The screen will hold 28 70-inch screens that display live CCTV camera feeds from all airport departments.
Each screen can display up to 25 multiple camera images, providing the AOCC the ability to display 700 images at one time. There will be up to 5,000 CCTV cameras installed in the airport that will provide the live feed.
The airport already has an AOCC, inside an old Air Traffic Control tower near the existing domestic terminals. The new AOCC is much bigger in size and better equipped to coordinate and monitor all information received from airlines, terminals and departments.
The AOCC is the ‘brain’ that controls all airport operations. It receives information from all the airport terminals, airlines, technical and operational departments and controls both operations and situational responses.
26/02/10 Sidhartha Roy/Hindustan Times

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Categories: Airports Jun 2010