Homeland Security

Homeland security is a growing concern for governments and organisations alike, ranging from border surveillance and monitoring looking for insurgents, economic migrants or smugglers, perimeter security for governments, military and civil sites, including airports, as well as protecting key assets including nuclear power stations, pipelines, oil platforms.

Protecting their homeland, its infrastructure and its inhabitants from potential threats such as terrorism, illegal immigration, smuggling and human trafficking is a significantly increasing problem for governments across the world. Part of this task is close monitoring of their borders. The vast areas involved make this a difficult task and security systems for this purpose are generally expensive to implement and difficult to manage.

Traditionally eyes and ears on the ground have been sufficient. With the increasing concern recently, further security technologies such as cameras and thermal imagers have been added to the manpower and continue to be at the heart of most modern security systems. The considerable manpower required to implement these systems however results in high costs and poor efficiency and so forces the requirement for further technological solutions. Physical barriers such as fences, cameras and thermal imagers provide a first layer of protection. However, with intruders becoming smarter and more determined, more intelligent sensors are required.

Plextek offers a range of leading-edge technological intelligent sensors for providing the highest level of security by enhancing the ability to detect and locate intruders with minimum delay and maximum accuracy. Plextek also offers unique communications solutions for extreme locations and extreme applications.

Plextek’s Blighter radar and Blighter Explorer offers rapid detection with high probability of detection in all weather conditions. Plextek’s asset tracking technology uses specialist communication technology to remove the need for existing communications infrastructure and our EPAC solution provides the highest of quality in streaming video and data over resilient mesh networks for remote sensor communication. Plextek also offers airborne surveillance capabilities, specialising in long haul, low latency, robust UAV communications.

Plextek’s SDR platform offers the ability to detect and intercept other communication traffic for high performance, wide band signal intelligence such as adaptive jamming and advanced ECM and ESM abilities.

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