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Photos: Inside San Francisco airport's secure operating centre
Watching next generation smart-CCTV in action...

By Will Sturgeon

Published: Monday 24 April 2006

The system picks up a vehicle which has remained static for too long in a specified area.

Paul Foster, aviation security manager at San Francisco International airport, tells silicon.com it could be somebody who is lost and is sat reading a map but if the vehicle raises an alert, based on parameters such as vehicle size, location or length of time it remains stationary, the incident will be checked out.

Photo Credit: Will Sturgeon