Novel concept for the security architecture of airports involving holistic interpretation via Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The Airport security touches a core value of society: Moving freely without fear, since at any time an airport can be the target of an attack. A constant evolution of airport security lies at the heart of defending such a core value. The attackers’ approaches and technological devices changed, as did those of aviation security, in response to each attack. Digitalization and automatization offer the possibility to counter the attackers’ approaches. An enhancement based on the combination of digitalization and automatization comprise Artificial Intelligence which is nowadays broadly used in airport security. An analysis of the existing areas of application of AI at the airport security revealed a lack in information exchange leading to the necessity of collecting and construing of security-related data to derive an overview of the overall security situation at the airport. In this paper, we describe a concept that centrally interprets and adequately acts on securityrelevant information with the help of AI. Since an overall interpreting security system based on AI needs to be adapted to on airports security infrastructure, wepresent a way to perform this adaption.