Border Protection
SELEX Systems Integration provides world-leading border
protection systems to many countries, to help prevent illegal
immigration, smuggling and illegal trafficking, as well as
supporting search and rescue operations; controlling national air,
ground and coastline borders by closely observing and identifying
suspect situations, and centralising information gathering and
classification: to ensure effective protection is to rely on
integrated systems.
Amongst the border protection programmes developed by our
company is a coastal surveillance systems for the Italian Coast
Guard. The Vessel Traffic System (VTS), ensures accurate and
real-time coverage of Italy's 4,600-mile coastline.
The main functions and components of a border protection system
are:
Sources of information:
- Check-point sensors
- Area and anti-intrusion sensors (perimeter)
- Short, medium and long-range surveillance sensors
Command and control:
- Multi-sensor tracking and data fusion
- Common operational picture
- Video-surveillance and alarm management
Value-added services:
- Radio links
- TETRA
- Satellite communications
- System security
- Vessel Traffic Service (VTS)
Effectors:
- Ground-based effectors (sensor-equipped vehicles, wireless
communications, instruments for decisional support)
- Seaborne effectors (fast sensor-equipped vessels, wireless
communications, decisional support instruments)
- Helicopters/sea vessels for search and rescue
Contact SELEX Systems Integration for more
information about border protection