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Security barriers with automated reconnaissance

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1177506

An intrusion delaying barrier includes primary and secondary physical structures and can be instrumented with multiple sensors incorporated into an electronic monitoring and alarm system. Such an instrumented intrusion delaying barrier may be used as a perimeter intrusion defense and assessment system (PIDAS). Problems with not providing effective delay to breaches by intentional intruders and/or terrorists who would otherwise evade detection are solved by attaching the secondary structures to the primary structure, and attaching at least some of the sensors to the secondary structures. By having multiple sensors of various types physically interconnected serves to enable sensors on different parts of the overall structure to respond to common disturbances and thereby provide effective corroboration that a disturbance is not merely a nuisance or false alarm. Use of a machine learning network such as a neural network exploits such corroboration.

Research Organization:
Kontek Industries, Inc., Kannapolis, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
Kontek Industries, Inc. (Kannapolis, NC)
Patent Number(s):
9,000,918
Application Number:
13/783,267
OSTI ID:
1177506
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

The dependence of detection system performance on fence construction and detector location conference January 1998
A low cost fence impact classification system with neural networks conference January 2004

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