A "laser wall" opens at Miami International Airport that can detect intruders using highly advanced technology

Recently, it was revealed that Miami International Airport (MIA) will have a new, state-of-the-art security system that can detect intruders attempting to enter sensitive areas of the terminal.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava said: "We are installing something to protect around the airport in collaboration with TSA."

The director of Miami International Airport, for his part, said: “It helps us detect penetrations in the perimeter of the fence and anyone who wants to try to damage our equipment will be detected immediately.”

The system, the first of its kind in the nation, was inaugurated Tuesday. The equipment includes fiber optic thermal sensors, video surveillance and analysis, and laser walls. It also has structures that look like solar panels, but are actually ground-based radars.

This innovative security scheme monitors the airport perimeter, detecting people in real time. Operations are monitored 24 hours a day at the control center located at Terminal D by several teams from the Miami-Dade County Police Department.

So far, only 50% of the project has been implemented, with the presentation of twenty pillars with three chambers each. The cost of the initiative is 13 million dollars and the planned plan indicates that it must be completed within two years. This amount is part of the budget of 9,000 billion dollars allocated to the renovation of the airport in question.

According to an assessment by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the highest risk areas of the airport terminal are those bordering main streets, with access limited only by a fence and barbed wire.

In the current context, there are freight trains running near the runway. The new technology is being funded by the TSA and MIA. Airport services have not been affected by the installation of the new surveillance system.

This technology is expected to be extended to more than 400 federal airports, provided that the results are satisfactory over the next two years.

TSA Public Affairs Director Jim Bamberger said, “Congress appropriated money to invest in technology to protect the perimeter of airports, and Miami was the first to be selected because of its high volume of domestic and international passenger and cargo flights.”

However, the airport continues to be the target of criticism from many users, the vast majority of whom agree that it is in significant disrepair, as many of its components are not functioning properly, which is why some do not at all notice the progress in the restoration process announced by various authorities.