Company Will Install Bomb Detection Gear At Frankfurt Airport

Smiths Detection has received an order from the German Ministry of the Interior for automatic explosives detection systems, valued at more than EUR 20 million, to be installed at Frankfurt Airport. The systems include the detection tomography system, HI-SCAN 10080 EDtS, along with comprehensive network-integration for x-ray image evaluation of hold baggage.

Fraport AG will operate the systems on behalf of the German Federal Border Guard (BGS) at Frankfurt Airport's Terminals 1 and 2, where they will replace machines currently situated in front of the check-in counters. Installation will be completed in 2007.

This order follows a number of similar airport projects where Smiths Detection, through its x-ray manufacturing operation Smiths Heimann, implemented fully automatic multi-level system solutions for hold baggage screening. These include Munich's new Terminal 2, Zurich and Brussels airports.

The automatic HI-SCAN 10080 EDtS is a so-called Level-1 inspection system that can inspect up to 1,800 bags per hour for explosives. As the majority of bags are cleared in this process, unsuspicious bags are directly transported to the aircraft, whereas suspicious baggage is further inspected. Centrally and strategically grouped in the airport, dispersed workstations for image evaluation facilitate quick and reliable analyses of x-ray baggage images, without delaying checked and transfer baggage flows.

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