Airport perimeter surveillance a critical aviation security gap
- Team Optic
- May 5
- 1 min read
Optic Security Group's emerging security technology division, OpticIQ, has just released a solution brief providing an overview of airport perimeter surveillance solution options.
The incident at Avalon Airport (Victoria) in March in which a youth carrying a firearm was able to breach a perimeter fence and make his way onto a Jetstar aircraft full of passengers has focused attention on the issue of airport perimeter security.
The security measures found in and around airport terminal buildings are clearly visible. Frequent travellers are met with a barrage of what is often derided as ‘security theatre’ each time they pass through aviation security checks and international arrivals. Unattended luggage in international airport terminals is swiftly reported to the terrorism hotline.
Yet, ironically, the sprawling perimeters of the airfield tend to get less focus. In some airports, substantial tracts of perimeter are left in a relatively vulnerable, unprotected state. With an airside perimeter in excess of 10km long, this was the case at Avalon.
Australia's federal government is now looking at requiring certain airports to implement enhanced perimeter surveillance measures, and Optic Security Group's OpticIQ division is working with technology partners to offer solution concepts to meet the individual needs of airports.
OpticIQ, a division of Optic Security Group, researches and develops emerging security technologies, and advises in relation to technology risk and Responsible AI. The Adelaide-based OpticIQ Lab is a sovereign capability for the development, testing, training, and deployment readying of advanced analytic and AI-enabled security technologies
