New technology sensor sees through walls

Source: Technology Digital

Date :6/1/2007 11:32:21 AM

UltraVision's UltraSensor receives prestigious international award, cited for transforming the intrusion detection industry

UltraVision Security Systems, Inc., of Salem, NH, and Birmingham, UK, has announced the receipt of the IFSEC Security Industry Innovation Award for its UltraSensor(TM) intrusion detection product.

Winner in the category "Best New Intruder Alarm Product,” the UltraSensor product “is revolutionary, making covert installation possible as the product sees through such solid barriers as walls, roadbeds, sidewalks and ceilings and senses not only motion, but also threat size, velocity and distance from the area being protected,” a company spokesperson says.

According to the company source, “These product characteristics — previously a reality only in Hollywood movies, special-effects-driven television and other science-fiction outlets — make the UltraSensor a true innovation in the vast international field of entrants from the motion-and-intrusion detection industry, including stalwarts like Bosch and Honeywell.”

This innovation was recognized by the IFSEC Award's selection panel, comprised of leading industry representatives from the British Security Industry Association, the General Defense Diversification Agency and the Police Scientific Development Branch. The British Security Industry Association, which presents the annual IFSEC event and the Innovation Awards, is the trade association covering all aspects of the professional security industry in the UK. Its 570 members provide over 70% of UK security products and services and adhere to strict quality standards.

Bill Lozon, vice president, sales and marketing at UltraVision, says "We're delighted to have been selected from such a noteworthy field. The judges found especially innovative UltraSensor's covert installation and ability to discriminate alarms based on intruder size, speed and direction. What that means is high security and low false alarms. We believe that the UltraSensor product is revolutionary and we are delighted to see that belief validated by such an internationally-important award.”

Available worldwide, the UltraSensor product is designed to protect high-value, highly sensitive, critical environments—like water treatment plants, utilities, national treasures, embassies and other government and commercial structures — by providing early warning perimeter alerts before an intruder has an opportunity to enter into a sensitive area.

The product uses ultra wideband (UWB) technology to pinpoint not only intruder motion, but also distance, velocity and mass. Most distinguishing the product from the large field of motion sensor technologies, the UltraSensor product is designed to sense motion through such solid barriers as walls, roadbeds, sidewalks and ceilings.