Glitch hits O’Hare Cameras
From the Sun-Times:
Apparently the outdated cameras at O’Hare are having problems. The OEMC said that a corrupted data file affected the 1,000 camera network at O’Hare. This corrupted data file affected the “automatic trigger” function for door alarms that automatically sends video of the breach to the dispatcher. Now operators have to manually dial up the video. According to Velasquez of the OEMC, the software is fixed. But the Sun-Times reports that other employees state the camera system is still malfunctioning in many ways. The article states:
“There’s a serious, airport-wide problem with the cameras,” said a source familiar with the problem. “The cameras are going up and down. They’re in service. They’re out of service. They’re working. They’re not working. They come and go. They don’t have a picture on the monitor. They don’t see anything.” For at least a week, dispatchers had no video on their consoles, according to an employee who works at the O’Hare Operations Center. Even after the temporary fix, the system is not working properly, the employee said. “If we got an alarm, we used to be able to choose that camera and look. You can’t do that right now. They hot-wired it. Whatever [video] pops up, pops up. We have to send security for every single thing,” the employee said.
Part of the problem is that the cameras were installed in 1991 and are now outdated. Velasquez said that the camera system would be upgraded to the new Operation Virtual Shield platform.
The article also notes that the construction of a new runway removed part of a $18 million electronic fence. Originally, the fence had its own sensors that would trigger if anyone tried to climb over the fence. But with part of the fence removed, these sensors are disabled.
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