Posted on 12/24/2010 8:17:55 AM PST by epithermal
A new invisible border-monitoring system could radically alter how the United States secures the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. Known as Helios, the new border-monitoring system uses laser pulses transmitted through fiber-optic cables in the ground to detect movement on the surface: specifically, illegal immigrants.
A Tucson, Ariz.-based company called Zonge recently installed a Helios test system in the desert outside Tucson.
The small vibrations caused by a moving object on the surface above hit the fiber-optic cables buried in the ground, slightly distorting them. The distortion creates a "unique signature change in the laser pulses," according to The Engineer. That distortion can be detected by a Helios detector at at least one of the cable's ends.
The Arizona desert is home to many animals like coyotes and wolves that criss-cross the border every day. That's not what researchers and government agencies like the Border Patrol are worried about. They're mostly concerned with people sneaking into the United States illegally.
Helios is sensitive enough to detect small animals like dogs, and it can also discriminate between animals of different sizes on the surface. A horse will cause larger vibrations than, say, a human. The Helios system can also detect when people are running, walking, or digging, and in what direction.
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So long as those laser guided munitions are not rubber bullets or bean bags.
No they're not.
Maybe they’re trying to get an accurate count of future voters.
Remember when we heard that the cameras would replace a fence.. well we see how well that has done.. they need to build fences NOW
You are correct, Watch for the FEDS to SEIZE this new technology and all related documents and prototypes in the name of NATIONAL SECURITY, as they threaten everyone involved with Criminal Prosecution if they ever release any information about said device or technology. We Will do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to Keep THE FREE FLOW OF DRUGS INTO THE USA, WE NEED THE DRUG WAR. Got it.
“they need to build fences NOW”
Useless. They just keep jumping over it especially with this psycho broad in Nuttylitano in charge.
Try landmines..
BS, out govt isn’t doing sh*t about anything down there.
In order for this to be useful, they need to have a response to the detections. Hard to believe when they’ve already ceded teritory to the smugglers and put up signs warning US citizens to stay out.
Monitor. smonitor.
Until they start laying land mines, they are not serious....
dumbo is having the chief dyke of DHS count votes for him as they cross.
Nothing to see here citizens. Move along.
We don’t need a fence. We need all laws enforced at local, state, and federal levels. We need no state charity help of any kind for illegals and their anchor babies. We need no hope of amnesty, ever.
Then they would simply go home and quit coming.
Reminds me of the movie “Tremors.” Except that it is illegal immigrants attacking everyone instead of giant worm-like things.
If we are not too careful we may make our border like the one between North and South Korea.
A No Mans Land full of a million landmines.
Response of animals said to be differentiable. More on the technical details here:
http://www.engr.arizona.edu/news/story.php?id=221
You have to read the PDF from the link on the site to see full test details. I think it shows promise, but then I am a geophysicist.
They’re mostly concerned with people sneaking into the United States illegally. This is the first I heard of this . All they talk about is how much Obama has done, regardless, still thousands are still coming here.As fast as they can deport them, they can make it back before the ink dries, with new names and documents and all is well in their world
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