Nov 22 2010
US Sensor Systems (USSI), a unit of Acorn Energy that manufactures, integrates and markets fiber optic sensors and solutions for the Defense and Energy applications, declared that their fiber-optic perimeter security system known as GroundAlert has been selected for a Latin American multiple-site surveillance project for about $0.6million.
The company is a member of Torrance-based PCSC group, a pioneer in the supply of security solutions and a global fabricator of building controls as well as security data systems.
According to Mas Kosaka, CEO of PCSC, the advanced technology of USSI shows enhanced performance and price compensation and the initial sites will result in the development of manifold sites for the advancement of the whole scheme.
The innovative fiber optic perimeter surveillance technology of the company is activated by light energy and employs highly flexible uninterrupted microphonic fiber optic sensor wires installed throughout a fencing perimeter to identify the attempts to tunnel or dig beneath the fence.
Jim Andersen, CEO of USSI, stated that the global requirements for security systems is exponentially enhancing and the conventional security systems alone is not sufficient to satisfy the necessity, because of its greater installation and maintenance expenditures. He further explained that USSI sensing wires eliminates the necessity of electronics or electrical energy in the field and thus lowers the integration and working expenses. Almost all the system measurements or modifications can be operated using a desktop located in a control facility, he added.
Source: http://www.ussensorsystems.com