BIS-WDS Prime Searches Passengers for Possible Explosives
and Suicide Bombs
Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc. announces today that its BIS-WDS(TM)
Prime has been installed for live, passenger screening operation at
the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's (PANYNJ) Exchange
Place PATH transit system station in Jersey City, New Jersey as part
of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Rail Security Pilot
Project's two week field demonstration of promising advanced
technologies that detect explosives and other large weapons used to
injure passengers or damage facilities and equipment, and that pose
serious potential threats to the nation's rail systems. Brijot's
product -- which provides full-motion, automated detection of
potential suicide bombs hidden beneath a person's clothing -- was
selected for the live, real-world field testing phase after successful
laboratory assessment.
"This field demonstration is of utmost importance to the
protection of our citizens and mass transit infrastructure. This is
what the entire Brijot team has worked for: a system where rail
passengers can be screened for suicide bombs with minimal change to
transit entry lanes or interruption of passenger flow. Passengers do
not have to stop or enter an enclosed portal device, or be concerned
about the system's screening technique. It operates just like a video
camera does, without any effect on the person or persons standing in
its view and without imaging any body details. Those with pacemakers,
pregnant women, children, anyone and everyone can stand in the
system's view forever and never be concerned," says Brijot President
and CEO Brian J. Andrew. "We finally have the technology available to
assist law enforcement agencies responsible for the security of the
traveling public to thwart suicide bombers. The challenge from here on
out will be the swiftness of authorities to implement at mass transit
locations."
For the Rail Security Project's two-week field trial phase two
BIS-WDS Prime cameras have been deployed for live operation as part of
an entry lane application and will be used to screen PATH transit
system patrons as they enter Exchange Place Station's entry
turnstiles. In such a scenario utilizing Brijot's recently announced
special suicide bomb detection software package, a two-camera
deployment can accommodate a throughput rate of 720 people per hour
for a single turnstile lane, identifying the exact location of
suspicious objects on a full-motion video without the need for the
patron to stop, empty pockets or enter a portal device.
The BIS-WDS Prime is a passive millimeter wave system that does
not subject screened persons to any type of energy or radiation
what-so-ever. The technology poses no health or environmental risks to
any passengers or station employees, and is of no concern for persons
with pacemakers or pregnant women. In addition, the system does not
image any specific body details, profile or otherwise discriminate
against any person based on physical characteristics but, rather,
identifies only those individuals carrying suspicious objects.
About Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc.
Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells the
world's first surveillance system to feature full-motion, real-time
millimeter wave imaging capabilities, allowing users to search for and
locate potential threats on an individual quickly and discretely from
a distance while that person walks through the camera's view. No other
product, today or in the past, has ever offered advantages comparable
to those of the BIS-WDS(TM) Prime. Led by a management team with many
years experience commercializing advanced technologies, Brijot also
has prominent industry advisors such as Four-Star General (Retired)
Barry McCaffrey. The company began the full-scale manufacture and
distribution of production units to customers across the globe in
January 2006.
