Wearable high-tech gear for homeland security personnel

Ronda Venkateswarlu; Choo Hui Wei; Ngiam Li Lian; E. T. Lim; Zijian Zhu; Mingjiang Yang

doi:10.1117/12.665336

10 May 2006 Wearable high-tech gear for homeland security personnel

Ronda Venkateswarlu, Choo Hui Wei, Ngiam Li Lian, E. T. Lim, Zijian Zhu, Mingjiang Yang

Proceedings Volume 6201, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense V; 62011A (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665336
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

Recent homeland security problems in various countries indicate that fixed surveillance systems at important places are not adequate enough. As the security threats take new dimensions in future, mobile smart security personnel wearing high-tech gear will form the basic infrastructure. See first, listen first, detect first, track first, communicate first with peers, assess the threat and coordinate with security head-quarters are the functions of high-tech gear. This paper proposes a high-tech gear involving (i) hands-free and obtrusion-free textile-based wearable microphone array to capture users voice and interface with body-worn computer, (ii) microphone arrays embedded in textiles to listen and record others voices from a distance, (iii) miniature cameras embedded in the shirt to provide the user with omni vision (iv) wireless personal display as GUI hidden in textile or natural glasses, (v) GPS and body area network for positional awareness for information in the form of text or textile integrated, (vi) reconfigurable HW/SW for all the above functions configured in the form of a usual belt. The main focus of this paper is how to configure the high-tech gear with all these sophisticated functions to disappear into the natural wearables of the user giving him normal look in the public. This project is sponsored by Defence Science & Technology Agency, Ministry of Defence, Singapore. This paper covers multi-discipline technologies at system level, hence not possible to go into details of any subsystem. The main objective of this paper is to share our thoughts and get feedback. Progress and some critical design issues are discussed in this paper.

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Ronda Venkateswarlu, Choo Hui Wei, Ngiam Li Lian, E. T. Lim, Zijian Zhu, and Mingjiang Yang "Wearable high-tech gear for homeland security personnel", Proc. SPIE 6201, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense V, 62011A (10 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665336

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