by Ann Withanee — September 21, 2011—With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 reinforcing ongoing high-security alerts, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has taken a major security measure to safeguard PATH, the World Trade Center (WTC) Port Authority Trans-Hudson Transportation Hub that connects with a number of other transportation lines. To help deter crime and enhance the safety of the new state-of-the-art mass transit center, PANYNJ has awarded Verint Video Intelligence solution to implement a full range of tough security tools. Verint, together with its integration partner Diebold, Incorporated, will deliver the robust security system.
Verint Systems’ Verint Video Intelligence Solutions security contract will supply IP video solutions to the WTC Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) Transportation Hub. Once implemented, the Verint Nextiva IP video portfolio will enable PANYNJ to capture high-quality video images, optimize bandwidth and storage utilization, leverage flexible video search capabilities, and benefit from programmable video retention and storage.
The portfolio will cover such critical areas as entrances, exits, platforms, and electrical and telecommunications rooms. The Port Authority worked in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Federal Transit Administration.
PANYNJ’s WTC 800,000-square-foot transportation hub, designed to accommodate 250,000 commuters and visitors each day, 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.
Slated to open in 2014, the WTC Transportation Hub 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 World Trade Center complex prior to September 11, 2001.
