Provides situational awareness.
SENTRY
PROBE, a small, completely portable, hand held,
low-cost personal RADAR device providing very reliable detection of any human movement through most walls and doors.
Coming soon, the GRASSHOPPER, miniature disposable
motion detector that can be worn like a broach or quickly stuck to most walls,
doors, and windows to covertly detect movement through them.
Under development: new SENTRY PROBE able to detect human movement through concrete and masonry.
June, 2007: Seen above, the new SENTRY PROBE is wallet-sized, fits in the pants pocket, operates more than 3 hours on a single charge, detects human movement through most walls and doors, costs less than $200 in single quantity.
Seen above, this version of SENTRY PROBE operates for 24 hours on a single charge.
In the image above, the SENTRY PROBE technology is retrofitted
into a DeWALT flashlight to provide a rugged
enclosure and recharging system, to survive rough handling for long life. Seen
on the top is a Sonalert beeper which annunciates
detected movement. Movement generates very distinctive sound which is
automatically interpreted as movement easily heard even in noisy situations.
The unit is battery operated, operating reliably for many hours without a
recharge. It may be hand-held, placed on the ground, mounted on a pole for
scanning high places or extended into places that are hazardous, mounted on a
robot, or may be mounted on a dish for distant probing and penetrating substantial
buildings and multiple walls even through foliage.
See additional images below…
SENTRY
PROBE uses microwave Doppler RADAR. A computer running RADAR PC may be used optionally
connected to the external connector. It is a stand-alone electronic device to detect
motion through most doors, walls, and foliage both in direct contact with the
surface of interest or at a distance. This detection is reported as a sound
that allows the users to instantly know if any movement occurs in the field of
the Illuminator.
One important feature, the user is alerted instantly
to any movement without watching or seeing the area of interest. The movement
is turned into sound so the user does not have to watch a tiring video screen
or peer through binoculars in surveillance situations. The sound may be easily
adjusted to continuously report movement with extreme sensitivity or be silent
and only make sound when there is movement, as an alarm would, and may silently
trigger cameras for recording movement in sensitive areas.
If your job requires you to breach doors to apprehend
suspects or process a warrant, knowing if there is any movement behind a door,
wall, or foliage may be of interest. If you need to detect movement in
sensitive areas or through entry points SENTRY PROBE can warn you if there is any movement.
Tactical Teams can use SENTRY PROBE to prevent dangerous surprises in sensitive
situations. Barricade and Hostage situations may be managed to provide the
Tactical Team real-time awareness of the movement of perpetrators and occupants
inside the building of interest. SENTRY PROBE allows the user to reliably characterize the movement
out of sight providing additional situational awareness unobtainable in any
other way:
Are the movements rapid like running from room to room?
Is it a pet?
Do the movements correlate to outside stimulus like
knocking on the door or phone call?
Is there limited movement as if someone is restrained
or suffering diminished capacity?
Is there no movement at all or has it come to a halt?
Even if the door of interest is steel, the wall in
which it is mounted is permeable by the Doppler RADAR.
Any movement immediately behind the door can be reliably detected by simply
placing SENTRY PROBE on either the
left or right side of the door at an angle to the wall pointing it behind the
door.
SENTRY
PROBE detects movement:
through walls of adjacent rooms and buildings
through floors and ceilings
through windows with curtains and blinds
in blind hallways
around corners
from inside to outside
from outside to inside
from inside to outside to inside (Inside one room or
building to inside another room or building.)
SENTRY
PROBE detects movement at a distance using a
suitable reflector. From the street, nearby buildings may be penetrated and
scanned for movement allowing the user to pinpoint the location of the
movement. Covert surveillance may be carried on from a suitable vehicle at a
distance from the site of interest.
SENTRY PROBE can alert you of any movement in a sensitive area like your
driveway or carport. Hunters can use it to detect animal movement in areas of
interest.
Azimuth/Elevation pattern of RADAR
Illumination
The Connector seen here allows the user
to attach many different external RADAR Illuminators to take advantage of the
internal electronics to process the Doppler Signal. The connector provides
power and signal which may be connected to external equipment such as a radio
transmitter and computers especially for RADAR PC. The
connector also allows SENTRY
PROBE the option of being powered from an automobile without the battery.
The Illuminator rotates to allow the
user to point the RADAR illumination in the most appropriate direction.