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Article: Taking the nuisance out of intrusion detection. (fence-mounted fiber optic intrusion detection systems)
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 American Society for Industrial Security. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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NEW FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY KEEPS FALSE ALARMS AND INTRUDERS AT BAY.
PREVENTING NUISANCE ALARMS while maintaining perimeter protection has always been a challenge. The obstacles to this perennial are imperfect fences, irregular terrain, electromagnetic interference generators, unpredictable animal activity, wind and other weather conditions. System designers and installers with varying skills, and detection requirements that vary from SWAT team experts to children add to the problem. It would take a truly magical system to leap over this tall mountain of site-specific variables, be free of false and nuisance alarms, and possess the ability to detect intrusions 100 ...