A Nuisance Alarm Data System for evaluation of intrusion detectors
A Nuisance Alarm Data System (NADS) was developed to gather long- term background alarm data on exterior intrusion detectors as part of their evaluation. Since nuisance alarms play an important part in the selection of intrusion detectors for use at Department of Energy (DOE) facilities, an economical and reliable way to monitor and record there alarms was needed. NADS consists of an IBM Personal Computer and printer along with other commercial units to communicate with detectors, to gather weather data and to record video for assessment. Each alarm, its assessment and the weather conditions occurring at alarm time are placed into a database that is used in the evaluation of the detector. The operating software is written in Turbo Pascal for easy maintenance and modification. A portable system, based on the NADS design, has been built and shipped to other DOE locations to do on-site alarm monitoring. This has been valuable for the comparison of different detectors in the on-site environment and for testing new detectors when the appropriate conditions do not exist or cannot be simulated at the Exterior Intrusion Detection Testbed.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/DP
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 7093103
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-90-0754C; CONF-9007106--29; ON: DE90013368
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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