Verint to analyze data at WTC transit hub
A Verint video analytics console Credit: Verint Systems Inc.
Verint Systems Inc. of Melville has a new contract putting it at the heart of the Port Authority's plans to detect and prevent crime and terrorism at the planned World Trade Center transportation hub. The company did not disclose financial terms of the deal.
Verint's software will analyze massive video streams from doorways, platforms and key offices such as the electrical and telecommunications rooms. The goal of such computerized video analysis is to give police immediate notice of possible threats or emergencies.
The undertaking is on a huge scale, with an array of walkways and rail thoroughfares.
The Port Authority's planned hub "is designed to accommodate 250,000 pedestrians per day and will feature underground pedestrian connections to locations on and around the WTC site, Hudson River ferry terminals, the World Financial Center, PATH trains, 13 subway lines and the proposed JFK rail link," Verint said.
The company announced the deal Friday, saying that the Port Authority had contracted with Verint Video Intelligence Solutions. The contract was awarded in July, Verint said.
The hub is scheduled to open in 2014, and "will make lower Manhattan the third-largest transportation center in New York and will re-establish the transportation facilities and infrastructure that existed at the WTC complex prior to Sept. 11, 2001," Verint said.
The Port Authority already contracts with Verint for video analytics at the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, the New Jersey PATH system and the AirTrain at Kennedy Airport.
