Remote intrusion-detection and surveillance system

Officials of the Harris Corp. RF Communications division in Rochester, N.Y., are offering a sensor system that offers remote, unattended intrusion-detection and surveillance capabilities for protecting of military installations and perimeters, as well as for protecting borders and other assets associated with homeland defense. The Harris Falcon Watch Remote Intrusion Detection and Surveillance system was developed by the Harris Sensor Systems Group, which is part of a new growth initiative within the Harris RF Communications Division. The Falcon Watch system includes the RF-5405 Intelligent Gateway, a communications node that receives alarms from multiple sensors and fuses the data into actionable reports for relay to command centers; and the RF-5400 Falcon II Sensor Node, which is integrated with Harris Falcon II tactical radios to provide situational awareness for the mobile user. The Harris Falcon Watch system uses seismic detectors, which detect ground vibration caused by vehicles or pedestrians; magnetic detectors, which detect the movement of metal objects such as weapons or vehicles, and passive infrared (PIR) sensors, which detect the movement of thermal signatures such as vehicles or pedestrians. Input is processed at the point of detection and then the resulting alarms are transmitted by radio to a monitoring point. For more information contact Harris online at www.harris.com.