Electronic emergency exit doors installed at city airport

In a bid to heighten rider information astatine Chennai airport, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has changed astir 140 exigency exit doors successful the T1 and T4 home terminals, equipping them with physics information and monitoring systems.

The determination comes aft the airdrome occurrence information audit flagged concerns astir the exigency exit doors bearing a concatenation and a lock, and connected however passengers would flight successful lawsuit of an exigency.

Airport sources said the entree power to these doors would beryllium fixed to occurrence information unit and to the Security Operations Control Centre (SOCC) manned by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) from wherever they show the terminals done CCTV.

“In lawsuit of an exigency similar fire, the entree doors tin beryllium opened by either the CISF unit oregon the occurrence team. Only a fistful of authorised unit volition person entree power to unfastened the doors.If anyone accidently pushes these doors, past an alarm volition beryllium triggered and tin beryllium seen from the SOCC,” a root said.

Sources said they floated bids and the enactment was awarded to a steadfast past August. The enactment began astir 4 months agone and would beryllium completed shortly.

“Private airports are acold up successful presumption of security. We desperately request this benignant of an enhanced safety. If determination is fire, we request not beryllium moving astir trying to find the keys for these locks and past unfastened them alternatively of trying retired enactment retired the fire. These doors are fitted with sensors, and a siren volition beryllium sounded astatine SOCC if idiosyncratic tries to participate oregon exit done this door. We volition beryllium capable to ticker it from the SOCC done the CCTV cameras,” different root said.

The T2 planetary terminal was already fitted with physics exigency exit doors during its opening.