Rapidly Deployable Wireless Autonomous Surveillance & Warning System

Williams-Pyro, Inc. proposes to develop a network of portable, plug-and-play, distributed surveillance systems called Secure Wireless Ad-hoc Network Surveillance (SWANS) that integrates multiple disparate sensors (e.g., standard video, IR camera, seismic, chemical, acoustic sensors), automates processing, and provides key intelligence information to backend computer systems. SWANS system uses an ad hoc network of Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSN) that collects and processes data from existing mature sensors. In addition to processing visual information, the WSNs will process and transmit other sensory data such as that of intrusion detection, vibration, chemical detection, and other RF-based sensors, enabling SWANS to collaborate with existing C2 and C4ISR capabilities. As the WSNs collect data about the environment, they collaborate to assemble a comprehensive interpretation of the environment. The WSN processes all sensor data and sends it to a backend monitoring system. This backend monitoring system hosts agent-based software to perform several functions: condition monitoring; target identification, detection and classification; and geo-location. Once SWANS interprets the environment/target, it automatically updates the tasking for individual sensor systems to resolve remaining ambiguity or improve the system's ability to assess activity in the environment. Thus, SWANS provides maximum information with minimal human intervention.