IntelliNet unveils sensors to detect stowaways

Pfc. Kayla Talbot, allied trade specialist assigned to 542nd Support Maintenance Company, 593rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, rotates a shipping container for ammunition to inspect and repair the bottom and top of the container during Operation Overblast at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, April 9.

IntelliNet Sensors has unveiled sensors that can detect living persons on ships and in cargo containers.

The Lynx 3-A includes “networked and advanced sensors designed to detect the existence of live persons hiding inside a container or a vessel while an integrated video camera system and other sensors capture the information of the vehicle,” said an IntelliNet news release. “The ultra-wideband radio frequency system searches for changes in the electromagnetic signature of a confined volume and registers its minuscule perturbations.”

“By remotely using the sensors in multiple points spatially, hiding individuals are detected in real-time at the fraction of capital expenditure and operating cost,” said IntelliNet president Fred Mohamadi.