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Vehicle barrier at the US Mexico border, 2010 Physical barriers such as security fences, walls, and vehicle barriers act as the outermost layer of security. They serve to prevent, or at least delay, attacks, and also act as a psychological deterrent by defining the perimeter of the facility and making intrusions seem more difficult.
Since at least the Roman Empire, fortifications, walls and barriers have been an important part of protecting sovereign territories and private property. Perimeter security is designed with the primary purpose to either keep intruders out or captives contained within the area the boundary surrounds.
A fence-mounted perimeter intrusion detection system installed on a chain link fence. A perimeter intrusion detection system ( PIDS ) is a device or sensor that detects the presence of an intruder attempting to breach the physical perimeter of a property, building, or other secured area.
An example of detector applied on a perimeter fence is the mems accelerometer. The advantages of having a perimeter intrusion detection system are various, and of great importance, for example we obtain a remarkable capacity to analyse the information produced by each sensor, without the need to increase the resources at the centre. Moreover ...
A taut wire perimeter security system is an independent screen of tensioned tripwires usually mounted on a fence or wall. Alternatively, the screen can be made thicker to avoid the need for a supporting chain-wire fence. These systems are designed to detect any physical attempt to penetrate the barrier.
Chicago crews installed an additional line of security fences outside the Democratic National Convention early Tuesday in the area where, a day earlier, demonstrators breached an outer perimeter ...
Two geofences defined in a GPS application. A geofence is a virtual "perimeter" or "fence" around a given geographic feature. [1] A geofence can be dynamically generated (as in a radius around a point location) or match a predefined set of boundaries (such as school zones or neighborhood boundaries).
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