My #1 system is PIDS, Perimeter Intrusion Detection System. PIDS envolve a great amount of hardware support. Radars, Electronic Fences, Video Motion Detection Devices, CACS - Control and Access Card Devices and Systems , PTZ Camers, Video Recorder Devices, Video Matrix Devices, etc. You can just start to imagine the excitment of building such a system.
The current C4 (Command, Control Communications & Computer System) project am dealing today is not only PIDS but also BP (Border protection) which adds to a PIDS very two important concepts:
- Target classification and tracking.
- Target Fusion.
This makes the integration of both PIDS and BP very unique and advanced in todays PIDS projects. In BP system it is very common to have a fusion for the tracks(tracks that are near each other fused to one target or devided to 2 targets) while in PIDS project fusion is not part of it unless you have a rader and then the only fusion is on the tracks coming from the radar.
What is new in this specific PIDS is the ability to create a track from other devices such as VMD and Electronic Fence, fuse them together with a track from a radar and create only 1 target with 3 different kind of tracks. This doesn't sound like a big step toward a next generation of PIDS.
HOWEVER,
The next step is building up the Alert mechanism for setting up a threshhold for curtein zones. For example, if you are in an airport and you have an electronic fence very close to a road, usually people touch it, lean on it and this will results in false alarm because there was no intrusion. So now we are able to combine the Electrionc fence and the VMD together and make sure that ONLY if these two had alert an inrusion alarm will be created for the operator. The even more complex scenario is setting up threshhold for a VMD, electronic fence and even Radar and ONLY when the total sum (could be also better algorithm) of all the treshhold values for the tracks is larger then the zone treshhold, an event will raise.
Two weeks ago I displayed it to Eyal from Elfar (an electronic fence company), I still smile when I remember how he reacted when he saw it: "This is taking any PIDS I know two steps ahead...Wow!" I know Eyal a while back when we both worked on the protection for ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games.
An even cooler feature is since any intrusion is based on a target, we can immidiatly point a camera to the exact Geo/UTM position and start tracking it!!!
The development for this project is near complete. We had our requirements changing, we had new requirements arriving and we are still before the schedule.
I am greatful to have such a dev team and am sure each one of you guys will success in the future!
Altough the next drop to the client (around January) will mark the end of this project for me, this project continues since client adjustments and "support" will take the place now.