STL Airport Deploys 360° Surveillance Using Panomera
Using Dallmeier’s Panomera multifocal sensor technology, St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) has achieved comprehensive high-resolution coverage with approximately 90% fewer cameras and 75% less infrastructure compared to the original surveillance design.
As Missouri’s largest and busiest aviation facility, St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) welcomed more than 15 million passengers in 2025. STL required a solution capable of covering vast spatial areas while significantly reducing infrastructure costs and complexity to implement a digital 360-degree surveillance system and secure over 70 million square feet of airport infrastructure. At the same time, the airport aims to implement AI-applications to optimize its operations.
STL Airport Operations Team contacted their security integrator, Tech Electronics, to design and deploy an updated camera solution. The initial design used a combination of PTZ and single sensor IP cameras and would have required more than 130 cameras in total. This would have required the installation of more than 42 new camera poles and the corresponding infrastructure (cable, network, power, etc.). The airside solution required significantly more technology to achieve the desired surveillance coverage. So, STL and Tech Electronics decided to look for another, more economical solution.
Using Dallmeier’s Panomera multifocal sensor technology, STL achieved comprehensive high-resolution coverage with approximately 90 % fewer cameras and 75 % less infrastructure compared to the original surveillance design. The test installation at the airport proved the image quality of the Panomera. Kevin Hubble, Services Manager for STL with Tech Electronics, comments: “I was surprised at how few Panomera cameras were needed to replace several PTZs and single sensor cameras and display the images in a much more user-friendly format. The SeMSy Compact VMS software enables the user to view a single high-resolution image of the entire scene with simple digital PTZ controls to ‘zoom’ into any part of the image in greater detail."
To date, STL has installed more than 27 Panomera cameras, multiple IPS 10000 recording appliances and five user workstations with the client software to complete the video system. Using only ten cameras, the airport achieves comprehensive situational awareness across the large airside areas including runways, taxiways and apron operations. As part of a planned deployment in the ticketing area, a Panomera V8 system will support AI-based video analysis functions such as passenger flow and waiting time analysis. The objective is to improve operational efficiency, optimize check-in processes, and enhance the passenger experience while leveraging the same high-resolution surveillance infrastructure already deployed throughout the airport.
