Perimeter Security

Situational awareness is vital to effective perimeter security. Providing personnel resources to perform these functions is costly, and in addition, can lose effectiveness over time as personnel can become fatigued and/or bored. Technology (both overt and covert) in the form of sensors and sensor integration can be an effective force multiplier for these personnel, but the technology must be flexible, adaptable, and upgradeable to allow for new technology insertion at minimal cost. SENTEL provides flexible surveillance sensor integration systems for perimeter security that can reduce manning requirements while allowing for quick and cost-effective improvements.

Networks of sensor systems, particularly those designed to detect physical security breaches, are rapidly becoming a more important part of military and civilian installations and deployments worldwide. Traditionally, sensors have been deployed as single entities and have been used to alert personnel in their immediate vicinity to potential imminent threats. Taken individually, however, these sensors are prone to both false negative detections (i.e., not detecting the presence of the threat that they are designed to detect when that agent is present) and false positive detections (i.e., declaring that a threat is present when, in fact, it is not). It has been recognized that networking and integrating sensors holds the potential to substantially reduce the number of both false negative and false positive detections. SENTEL’s Remote Data Relay (RDR) and its underlying architecture provide the ideal sensor integration platform to make this a reality, creating perimeter security solutions that take full advantage of this advanced sensor fusion.

SENTEL provides hardware design, manufacturing, software development, and on-site installation and field support to the U.S. Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) for the Cerberus program. RDRs provide the sensor integration backbone of this surveillance system, which interfaces video cameras (day and night), pan-tilt-zoom devices, motion sensors, and ground surveillance radars. The system provides perimeter surveillance and alerting capabilities, including slew-to-cue video tracking, and has been selected for use at military facilities.