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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.
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