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Video analytics has transformed perimeter security from a labour-intensive monitoring task to an automated detection capability. Where traditional CCTV relied on operators watching screens — an approach proven to degrade after 20 minutes of sustained attention — modern analytics systems detect, classify, and track intrusion events automatically, alerting operators only when a
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ISC West 2025 drew nearly 30,000 industry professionals and 750 exhibiting brands to the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas (March 31–April 4). For perimeter intrusion detection, the show offered a clear reading of where vendor investment and buyer interest are heading. Here are five takeaways. 1. Fiber Optic
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Microwave barriers and active infrared beams are line-of-sight detection technologies that create an invisible detection curtain between a transmitter and a receiver. Anything passing through the curtain — a person, vehicle, or large animal — interrupts or distorts the signal and triggers an alarm. These technologies protect fence gaps, gate openings, rooftops,
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Bosch Security and Safety Systems has rebranded its G Series intrusion detection alarm panel portfolio under the Radionix name at ISC West 2025, reviving a legacy brand within the company's security product history. The new Radionix G Series control panels integrate intrusion detection, fire alarm, and access control
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Southwest Microwave showcased updated variants of its MicroPoint fence-mounted detection system at ISC West 2025, highlighting an extended cable range that reduces infrastructure buildout requirements for long perimeters. The MicroPoint X system detects intrusion attempts — climbing, cutting, and lifting — on chain-link, razor coil, and metal barrier fences within 1.1
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UK-based Sintela used ISC West 2025 (Booth 2052, Venetian Expo, Las Vegas) to launch the Onyx perimeter intrusion detection system, a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) platform that achieves 3-metre intrusion localisation accuracy on standard telecommunications fiber. Unlike competing DAS systems that require specially engineered sensing fiber, Sintela's Onyx
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SightLogix and Navtech Radar have announced a technology partnership integrating Navtech's perimeter intrusion detection radar with SightLogix's SightSensor smart thermal cameras and SightTracker PTZ systems. The integration creates an end-to-end outdoor PIDS solution: Navtech radar provides wide-area detection and tracking across open terrain, while SightLogix thermal
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Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS) rely on a range of sensor technologies to detect, locate, and classify threats along a facility's boundary. Each modality offers distinct advantages in detection range, environmental resilience, false alarm management, and cost per metre of coverage. This primer provides a practitioner-level overview of
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Thermal cameras detect heat radiation emitted by people, vehicles, and animals, producing images that are independent of visible light. In perimeter security, this means detection capability that works in complete darkness, through smoke, and in conditions where visible-light cameras are ineffective. Combined with video analytics, thermal imaging has become a
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Senstar Technologies parent company Magal Security Systems has received orders totalling approximately $3.5 million for integrated security solutions at several major international airports, including Barcelona–El Prat and Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. The contracts cover video management and analytics, intrusion detection systems, and Magal's
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Ground-based radar has become one of the fastest-growing segments of the perimeter detection market. Where fence sensors detect intrusions at the boundary, radar provides wide-area surveillance — detecting, tracking, and classifying targets across open ground at ranges from hundreds of metres to several kilometres. This guide covers the radar technologies used
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Federal procurement of perimeter intrusion detection systems in the United States continues to operate under the constraints of NDAA Section 889, a provision that prohibits executive agencies from procuring telecommunications and video surveillance equipment from five named Chinese manufacturers: Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua. For PIDS buyers in the