RAILWAY STATIONS & AIRPORTS | Security Systems Visualization - Part 1/3

The number of passengers is growing, so the responsibility of people and teams responsible for safety at railway stations and airports is growing. When an emergency occurs at this type of facility, it may turn out that a delayed train or plane is the least of a problem.

Currently implemented integration platforms enable the implementation of a number of solutions that help the facility's technical staff to better prepare for potential threats, as well as shorten the response time to alarm events - related not only to fire, but also to acts of vandalism or even terrorism.

This three-part article will present three examples of such solutions that a professional environment visualizing security systems has in store - all in the context of the evacuation process, which is very complex for railway stations and airports.

1. Evacuation - how to prepare?

If the technical services know the facility well, we increase the likelihood that they will be able to cope with the threat better in an emergency/alarm situation. Easy. Hence the idea that the visualization system should be a kind of information "hub" about the facility, and not only be used to pinpoint the location of the alarm site. Visualization systems - designed, launched and adapted to the facility by interdisciplinary professionals - are used every minute of the facility's life, maximizing the potential of integration technology.

Operators and technical services of the facility can verify the status of monitored devices and at any time become familiar with, among others:

• with the layout of all escape routes;
• with the location of all first aid kits, fire extinguishers, hydrants, AED defibrillators and fire protection switches;
• with the arrangement of smoke and fire zones.

Where can this type of documentation and supporting materials be found in facilities that do not have a visualization system? Sometimes they are not there at all, perhaps they are made available only to selected facility technicians, or they lie dusty in a binder somewhere. Therefore, you can browse through these binders and carry out periodic training to "refresh" your knowledge based on often outdated printouts, or have this knowledge at hand all the time (or rather with a computer mouse) in one integrating environment. As a reminder, we are talking here about railway stations and airports, the area of which often reaches several hundred thousand square meters - knowledge of evacuation routes or the location of, for example, fire hydrants are details that in a fire threat situation can have a real impact on the effectiveness of the evacuation process.

The next part of this article will be published in the next newsletter.

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