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Volume 19 January 2018 Edition What You May NOT Know About Perimeter Security, from PROTECH By Cathy McHugh, PROTECH US-based PROTECH’s Guide to Choosing the best suited system for your application, at the lowest Total Cost of Own- ership When it comes to protecting the perim- eters of highly sensitive sites, not all technologies are the same. Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS) range from: lifts on fences or walls) • Dual technology motion sensors (providing simultaneous technologies to detect motion with immunity to birds and moving objects like trees) • Microwave barriers (creating a line of site volumetric detection zone that alarms when someone passes through) • Video analytics (to detect motion and track- ing) • Radar (for extremely wide area surveillance) • Drone technologies (for top view surveil- lance), and of course • A full range of CCTV cameras that provide verification of an intrusion once accurately detected by a perimeter detection technology The goal of outdoor perimeter security is to provide advance warning, enhance overall situational awareness and im- prove response times of security staff. • Infrared beams (invisible fences) • Fence-mounted intrusion detection systems (to give advance warning of cuts, climbs or Effectively deployed, perimeter security sys- tems extend the physical perimeters of sites so breaches are identified in advance of an event. 21

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