SBIR Phase I: Computerized Tool for Baggage Screening

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目针对国土安全，将确定开发机场安全检查站行李检查的计算机化工具的可行性，该工具将协助行李检查人员进行x射线图像检查，并将在安全检查站人员之间提供网络电子通信。目前机场安检处的行李检查方法基本上是人工系统，很少利用当今的计算机技术、电子通信和数据网络。拟议的系统为机场引入联网数据库功能，使保安人员能够分析和关联整个机场的乘客及其行李的实时和/或历史数据，并将大大改善机场平稳运行的能力，同时提高安全性。随着911事件后消费者信心的下降，我们国家的机场正在寻找使航空旅行体验尽可能简化的方法，这样每天的旅行经济都是有利可图的，同时，使整个系统更安全，从而保护生命，他们的投资，并促进国家基层对安全的认识，从而提高我们的生活，我们的消费者信心，我们的经济，以及我们的旅行意愿。作为一种带有硬件平台的软件产品，它与现有的和新的硬件系统相连接，以满足机场的安全需求，拟议的技术有望提供一种相对低成本的方式来显著改善这种情况。这项技术为筛选人员提供了一个基于彼此知识和专业知识的通信基础设施，并将这样一个基础设施平台添加到日常流程中，以不断评估其统计准确性。这将提高他们的性能，同时也加快了行李搜索的过程，从而提高了安全性。拟议的计算机化检查系统可以直接或通过与安全顾问和硬件制造商的关系在全国429个商业服务机场中使用。同样，这项技术也可以在国际市场上得到有利的应用。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is directed at homeland security and will determine the feasibility of developing a computerized tool for airport security checkpoint baggage screening that will assist baggage screeners in x-ray image inspection and which will provide networked electronic communications among security checkpoint personnel. Current baggage screening methods at airport security checkpoints are essentially manual systems that take little advantage of today's computerized technologies, electronic communications, and data networks. The proposed system introduces networked database capabilities to the airport enabling security personnel to analyze and correlate real time and/or historical data on passengers and their baggage throughout the airport and will significantly improve the airport's ability to run smoothly while enhancing safety. With post 9/11 diminishing of consumer confidence, our nation's airports are in search of ways to make the air travel experience as streamlined as possible, so that the day-to-day economics of travel are profitable, and, at the same time, to make the entire system safer thus protecting lives, their investments, and promoting a national grassroots level perception of safety that enhances our lives, our consumer confidence, our economy, and our willingness to travel.As a software product with a hardware platform that interfaces with existing and new hardware systems being utilized to meet security needs at airports, the proposed technology promises to offer a relatively low cost way to introduce significant improvements to the situation. This technology brings screeners a communications infrastructure to build on each other's knowledge and expertise, and with the addition of such an infrastructure platform to daily processes, to be constantly evaluated on their statistical accuracy. This will improve their performance while also speeding the process of luggage searchers, and thus improve security. The proposed computerized inspection system can be utilized in any of the nations' 429 commercial service airports either directly or through relationships with security consultants and hardware manufacturers. Similarly the technology can be used advantageously in international markets as well.