Airport Intelligent Security Solutions and Gate Access Systems

Competence in Airport Management

Globally Fraport AG is one of the leading companies in the Airport Business and with Frankfort Airport it operates one of the world's most important air transportation hubs. As an experienced Airport Management company, Fraport, together with partners, has developed Frankfurt Airport into "Frankfurt Airport City", an outstanding mobility, experience and real estate centre. In addition to covering the full range of airport services, Fraport is also a competent partner in airport retailing and real-estate development. As a full-service provider in the airport management field, Fraport AG is active on four continents through investments and subsidiaries.

As part of a public tender, Fraport awarded the contract to primion for

• Credential Management
• Time Recording
• Access Control
• Gate Access System

Credential Management

In order to be able to phase out the current access control system, the first step was to develop a concept for the migration of the existing Credential Management software (CMS). A lot of attention was paid to the large number of interfaces that the CMS served. This included the existing system, which still needed to be supplied with credential data until the changeover to prime WebSystems was complete.

Over the course of several months a detailed migration process was drawn up and deployed to replace the existing Credential Management System with the new system from primion Technology AG. All the existing data was transferred out of the old system into the new one. From the start, the new system administers some 154,000 permanent credentials, 268,000 persons as well as 16,500 external company and organisation units, together with their historical data. Within just the first two days, 3,500 Visitor badges were created and issued.

Access Control and Time Recording

The primary goal for Fraport was to bring the IT systems up to the latest standards in terms of security.

As well as requiring a renewal of the central management systems, this also called for the replacement of all the door and gate access control readers as well as the time recording terminals across the complete airport site.

New hybrid airport ID badges for some 80,000 persons were created by Fraport and exchanged for the existing magnetic stripe cards. Once all the card readers have been upgraded to units with the new, high-security RFID technology, the previously used hybrid-cards with magnetic stripes will be replaced by the more economical, purely RFID cards.

The successful introduction of the central Credential Management software provides the basis for the next phase of this major project: the introduction of the access control, the Gate Access System and the Time Recording for which new Time Recording terminals employing the same proximity reading technology will be installed.

Following this, the new access control system will put into operation, which will mean swapping out the technology in around 900 switching cabinets and over 700 different technical rooms.

Gate Access System

In a further roll-out phase, the previous Multi-Access Control System (MACS), which controls the processes at the gates, is to be replaced by a new, modern Gate Access System (GAS).

In this case, the complex body of rules and regulations that handles gate control must be transferred and in excess of 600 Gate Management Terminals (GMT) have to be replaced in the most security-critical areas, while the system continues to operate.