Designing for security begins in control room at NY airports.New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's four airports are undergoing major security upgrades that place state-of-the-art technology alongside highly-trained individuals. These upgrades involve the installation of Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems This article is about the computing term. For other uses, see Burglar alarm. An intrusion detection system (IDS) generally detects unwanted manipulations of computer systems, mainly through the Internet. (PIDS PIDS Philippine Institute for Development Studies PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society PIDS Perimeter Intrusion Detection System PIDS Person Identification Service PIDS Polarization Intensity Differential Scattering PIDS Prime Item Development Specification ), a new monitoring technology that has been developed by national security solutions provider, Raytheon Company. Designed to secure each airport's outdoor operational areas from outside intrusions, the new PIDS system won't be noticed by passengers or disturb their flying experience. Goshow Architects has been retained to design the control rooms that will house the equipment and personnel to monitor and administer these new security systems. "This project demonstrates Goshow Architects' commitment to helping secure transportation facilities that serve New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and surrounding areas," explains Nancy Goshow, Managing Partner of Goshow Architects. The new control rooms that will house the PIDS systems are being created within existing space at the four airports involved--John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International; LaGuardia; and Teterboro airports
Key to Goshow Architects' design is an understanding that overall success of the system rests with the end user's experience of each control room. "The decisions made in the control rooms are tied to the individual's ability to concentrate and analyze situations," continues Joshua Harper. The control rooms are manned around the clock, so comfort levels have to be maintained to ensure peak performance and alertness. Lighting, noise, adjacency to co-workers, and ergonomics ergonomics, the engineering science concerned with the physical and psychological relationship between machines and the people who use them. The ergonomicist takes an empirical approach to the study of human-machine interactions. are all design issues that are being addressed by Goshow Architects. Careful planning and research into the specific equipment for each station has been done to ensure that the appropriate work conditions are attained. Scaleable and adjustable workstations have been selected so that technicians with different heights and builds can use the same station comfortably in successive work shifts, and new technology upgrades can be installed seamlessly, when the need arises in the future. At a total construction cost of close to $100 million, this design-build project for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. (which operates the airports) is slated for completion by 2008. Other project team members include Raytheon Company, The Louis Berger Group The Louis Berger Group, based in East Orange, N.J., according to their website:
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