Port Security Monitoring System Portland, ME and Portsmouth, NH as Case Studies

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Port Security Monitoring SystemPortland, ME and
Portsmouth, NH as Case Studies

• Final Report Dec. 12
• Team Leader Balazs Kovacs
• Team Tomasz Jankowski, Jonathan D. Baker, Matt
  Cullen, Timothy A. Ager
• Course ECE 877
• Partners NI2-CIE, Globalphone

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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Organization Chart
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Motivators
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Project plan
Agenda - project preparation - project
design - project integration - report
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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Project Description

• We present a proposal for an integrated security
  system for marine ports that
• monitors maritime and land commerce entering port
  facilities
• is prepared for intrusions
• supports fast response to possible threats.
• Case Studies
• Port of Portland
• Port of Portsmouth

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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Security Concerns

• Huge ship and vehicle traffic
• Contraband
• Terrorists
• Weapons
• Hazardous materials
• Drugs
• Vulnerable targets (serious economical impacts)

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Security Aspects

• Protecting Critical Infrastructure (CI) from
  intrusion
• Screening and monitoring facility entries
• Response to threats
• Vectors
• Waterborne vehicles
• Land vehicles
• Human intrusion
• Air attacks (out of scope)

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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Risk Assessment

• A system must be used to determine risk
• Uniform risk assessment allows for countermeasure
  prioritization
• Allows for better use of security dollars

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Risk Assessment - CARVER2
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• Risk assessment tool
• Single system to compare dissimilar targets
• Menu driven input and simple numerical output
• The larger the number, the higher the risk

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Risk Assessment - CARVER2
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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Objectives

• Monitor port commerce
• Reveal unacceptable cargo and personnel
• Reveal unacceptable vessels and vehicles
• Reveal anomalies in cargo commercial patterns
• Facilitate effective port security
• Stop intrusion or decrease its possibility
• Reveal contraband
• Quick response for possible threats

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System components

• Monitoring
• Smart gate
• Smart buoys
• iBoat
• RF communication (e.g., RFID)
• AIS (Automatic Identification System)
• Security?
• Bandwidth?
• Cargo monitoring software at port security center
  
• Effective visualization of ship inventories
• Communication with ships (smartgate or other RF)
• Authentication, Authorization, Accounting cargo
  inventories
• Common operating picture
• Near-time data warehousing

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System components contd

• Intrusion detection
• Sensor system
• Sonar systems (reveal underwater or onwater
  threats)
• Radar systems
• Perimeters, motion detection, high-tech door
  locks, CCTV, communication system to port
  security center, and software to handle alerts
• Screening
• X-ray systems
• Backscatter
• Transmission (standard)
• CBRNE detection
• Nuclear detector based on muon
• Response
• Technology driven alert generation (minimize
  human interaction)

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Secure Port Layout
Secure zone
Waiting zone
Smart gate (Fast Lane)
CG Response team
Coast Guard
CG Response team
IDS
Smart gate (Fast Lane)
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System design
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Smart gate concerns

• Creating false alarms resulting in commercial
  delays
• Smart gate has to be reliable
• The ability to verify cargo inventorys
  authenticity
• Operation Safe Commerce and Canada US Cargo
  Security Project
• The ability to create universal communication
  links with smart gate technology

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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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SCCMT

• Software Configurable Container Monitoring and
  Tracking unit

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SCCMT

• Battery powered tracking and monitoring system
• Installed on individual cargo containers
• Able to communicate position and status from
  anywhere with sky view
• Installed within container ridge
• Low cost and high durability

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SCCMT
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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Port of Portsmouth

• Introduction
• New Hampshire, located on the south bank of the
  Piscataqua River, NH has population 20,786
• Seavey Island and the town of Kittery, Maine
• Kittery, ME on opposite bank, population 10,141
  
• 56 nautical miles southwest of Portland, Maine
  and 61 nautical miles northeast of Boston
  Massachusetts.
• The mouth of the river - Portsmouth Harbor.
• All except three of the waterfront facilities at
  the port are located on the south bank along the
  lower 4.5 miles of the Piscataqua River.

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Port of Portsmouth

• Commerce
• The waterways used for this shipping
• Petroleum products, LPG, gypsum rock, steel
  cable, lobsters, salt and coal
• The most common ships are oil carriers, both
  international and coastwise
• Other vessels served liner, passenger ships,
  container ships, feeder vessels, barges, gypsum
  and salt ship

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Port of Portsmouth

• Design Steps
• Critical infrastructure study
• Risk Assessment - CARVER2
• Countermeasures Research
• Research innovation focused on ports security
• C4

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Port of Portsmouth

• Critical Infrastructure
• Military
• Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
• Portsmouth Harbor US Coast Guard Station
• Bridges
• The Memorial Bridge
• The railroad and U.S. Highway 1 Bypass Bridge
• The Interstate Highway 95 Bridge
• Dover PT Bridge
• Seavey Island Bridges
• Airport - The Pease International Airport
• Port Terminals
• Railways

Nr Name Flammable CI nearby Densely Populated area
1 River Road Terminal Wharf yes yes no
2 Avery Lane Terminal Wharf yes no no
3 Gosling Road Wharf yes no no
4 Portsmouth Plant Wharf yes yes yes
5 DPH Market Street Terminal no yes yes
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Port of Portsmouth
Number Target Carver2 score
1 I-95 Bridge 290
2 Portsmouth Plant Wharf (Irving Oil) 246
3 DPH Market Street Terminal 240
4 Dover PT Bridge 240
5 The Memorial Bridge 170
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Port of Portsmouth

• Threat, vulnerabilities, consequences and
  countermeasures e.g. SEA 3 terminal

Target Threat Vulnerability Consequences Countermeasures C4
Avery Lane, SEA-3 Terminal Small Boat High Possible destruction of facility and surrounding area (50 deaths, range 0.5 mile) Sonar, human security Sensors -gt sensor clusterhead -gt command centre -gt security
By foot Same Same Motion detectors, cameras, fences, human security, explosive detection Same, and explosive detector -gt local security
RPG Same Same Cameras, large perimeter, human security, tank armour -
Truck/car Same Same Fence, human security, explosive detection Explosive -gt human security
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Port of Portsmouth

• Design Steps Minimum standard Security
• Detection,
• CCTV
• Radar
• Sonar
• Investigation ROVs
• Prevention
• Port Security Center
• Quick Reaction Force (QRF)
• Smart Gates design both for ships and vehicles
• C4 Command, Control, Communication and
  Computers
• AAA
• Data Center
• Data Ware- Inventory
• Monitoring systems
• Communication Portal

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Port of Portsmouth

• Coverage

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Attack or Accident?
About 20 petroleum tanks were thought to be
involved in the blaze at the Buncefield Oil Depot
near Hemel Hempstead
www.cnn.com
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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Port of Portland
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Port of Portland

• Located on the Casco Bay
• 117 miles north of Boston, MA
• 51 miles north of Portsmouth, NH
• Metro population of over 230,000
• Approximately 4.5 miles long from west to east,
  .7 miles wide north to south

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Port of Portland

• In 2003 the Port of Portland imported 25,999
  short tons of petroleum products
• Including gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, and many
  more.
• Three bridges cross the main waterway
• Thompson point, Veterans Memorial, and the
  Portland Bridge
• Cargo ships, numerous ferries, rail and air
  accessible

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Port of Portland
Number Carver2 score Target
1 236 Tanker ship terminal
2 230 Cargo ship terminal
3 205 I-295 Veterans Memorial Bridges
4 193 Portland Pipeline Corp
5 190 Sqrague Energy Corp
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Port of Portland

• Existing Security
• Fences
• Locks?

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Port of Portland

• Proposed Security Measures
• Quick Reaction Force (QRF) teams
• Three locations West, Central, East
• CCTV
• Specific to each site
• Sonar
• Specific to each site
• ROV
• QRF Central
• Port Security Center
• SCCMT
• Locks!

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Port of Portland
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Port of Portland
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Port of Portland
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Outline

• Introduction
• Project Description
• Security Concerns Aspects
• Risk Assessment
• System Design
• Cargo Container Monitoring
• Portsmouth Portland
• Next Steps

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Next Steps

• Feasibility study in workgroups
• Ship inventory architecture
• Smart gate communication (ship, port security
  center - PSC)
• PSC software (monitoring, DB comm., alert
  handling)
• IDS and Sensor subsystems
• Finding COTS, costs, and develop
• We need resources to study and implement our
  concept

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