DAA ( Airport Authority) Case Summary

Location , an international airport serving the capital city  Dublin Airport, Dublin of Ireland, Dublin and surrounding areas is operated by DAA  , Cork (Dublin Airport Authority) and is located north of the city. Systems Installed: Dublin Airport had its busiest year ever in 2015, as a record of 25 TDS Airport Enterprise Access Control million passengers travelled through the airport during the  TDS ISS Pass Production twelve months with the growth to continue into 2016, as 11 new  TDS Biometrics scheduled services have been announced for the year, including  TDS Mobile new direct transatlantic. There are also new long-haul charter  TDS MIP  TDS Visitor Management services to Cancun in Mexico and Montego Bay in Jamaica.  TDS Graphic Control Centre  TDS Vehicle Management

DAA is an airport management company with over 3,600  TDS API Workflow Integration Suite  TDS CCTV Integration employees with their principal activities including airport management, operation and management, domestic and Hardware Installed international airport retail management, and airport investment.  1,500 Multimodel Card Readers & DAA is responsible for running Dublin, Cork and Shannon Biometrics  30,000 Secure Card Credentials Airports.  Failover IT Architecture  Departure & Boarding Gate control  Passenger Segregation – CBP  US Pre-Clearance Controlled Zones  Gates – Anti Pass

Introduction ‘TDS are highly competent in their line of business, Dublin Airport is Ireland’s main willing to change and work with the customer to meet all international gateway with over 22 our business needs. They have a good team in each of million passengers passing through its the areas of work and in each of the security disciplines – facility each year. Dublin Airport

hardware, software and implementation’ Authority turned to TDS to supply and install a comprehensive automated boarding card reader and access Vincent McGrath control system to optimise operations Security Operations Manager around its site, and deliver a high level Dublin Airport of resilience and service to all users.

Solution Customisation

The DAA required a sophisticated system which equipped the A key business requirement was that the site with the resources necessary to handle all US immigration solution installed facilitated US pre- requirements, as well as function as a single integrated solution clearance security checks. Amongst the for controlling the movement of passengers and staff across the control points, there would need to be entire site. access points to a pre-clearance facility which would enable all passengers to pre- DAA required an automated access control mechanism with clear all formalities for US Immigration, integrated boarding card readers. This solution was required to Customs and Agriculture before leaving deliver sophisticated technical infrastructure and software Ireland. which was capable of reading and validating passenger boarding cards. Through physical access control mechanisms, passengers Along with this, the capability of capturing would then be able to access the various security screening and storing transactional data locally in areas depending on their unique screening requirements. circumstances of network failures was vital. In the event of a power or network Core Components failure, the system was required to retain transactional data and then buffer such The core component of the solution was its ability to securely transactions once network connectivity is manage the movement of personnel across the airports. restored.

The TDS Aviation Access Enterprise Security Management From a reporting standpoint, DAA Solution provides a highly stable distributed intelligent Access representatives required a system which Control solution. It addresses the most stringent operational was equipped with the resources and high availability demands of the Airport environment. The necessary to define the layouts of key TDS Access Solution operates a three-tier access control fail- business reports and also tailor the secure solution. These are host and database redundancy, representation mechanisms used to communications redundancy, and access point redundancy. display reports information.

TDS Access Aviation Edition software was customised and Integration to current systems was an configured to meet the unique requirements of Dublin Airport. essential element of the overall project. As a leading security software developer and hardware TDS Access holds the ability to fully integrator, TDS provide DAA with the confidence for future integrate with existing third party systems, proofing and the platform to work with knowledge based including DAA Enterprise Service , DAA company. TDS will continue to work in partnership with the loyalty cards, and fire systems to name but DAA throughout the solution life cycle to adapt to evolving a few. security issues and deliver layered value.