Overview of security systems for seaports
Niscayah can support you at any level; from a single sub-system need to provision and ongoing support of a full, integrated system.
The aim for Seaport site security should be seamless integration across all facets of a seaport’s operations. To achieve this it is often useful to break-down the initial consideration and development of an (ISPS-compliant) systems-based approach into three, key segments. These equate to the flow of people and cargo through a seaport and, equally important, through a multi-seaport system
- Perimeter Security Management
- Restricted Areas Security Management
- On-board Security Management
Integrated security systems
Maximisation of integration of the sub-systems required to protect a seaport is the key to successful security control.
Various integration platforms provide differing levels of user-friendliness, intelligence and sub-system connectivity. They act as the interface through which access control, CCTV, intruder and related sub-systems report and can be managed. They provide the best way to optimise security effectiveness and productivity within the security management function. They may also contribute to other management functions, such as health & safely. A good integration platform will ensure that all resources are mobilised to their fullest when an incident occurs and archive the vital data necessary when post-incident reports and follow-up audits are made.
The power and data-handling capacity of such integration tools, combined with the options available in today’s networked world, permits centralised monitoring and control not only of the manned and unmanned sectors within a seaport site, but also, where larger maritime organisations require it, across multiple seaport sites in multiple countries. The ability to escalate the CCTV surveillance of an entire seaport site, for example, into the hands of a dedicated, remote monitoring centre, is being viewed as making a positive contribution towards the requirements set out in ISPS.
Most seaports host a community of separate, commercial user organisations within the site together with Customs, Immigration etc. The best integrated solutions provide these groups with local control/information of the sub-systems within the areas where they operate (particularly for access control) together with consolidation at the control centre.