Adaptive, Intelligent Acoustic Recognition/Alert Systems for Security Breaching Noise Detection, Close Proximity Danger Identification, and Perimeter

First-generation perimeter security-breaching "recognition" sensors [as opposed to “recognition and discrimination” sensors] have been developed, prototyped and demonstrated to the Office of Naval Research [ONR], Naval Surface Warfare Center [NSWC] and Transportation Security Administration [TSA] with great success. These sensors are small, wireless devices that “listen” for vehicles, footsteps, gunshots, and fence disturbance along a fixed asset perimeter. The second-generation sensors will act as "discriminators" -- not only performing detection and recognition, but recognition of target sounds using dynamic synapse neural networks [DSNN] to identify the intrusion event and slew a video camera to the event origin. This system will concatenate the alerts from various sensors [acoustic and seismic]; and offer video analytics for decision-making at a security command center. The second generation sensors’ ability to listen for target sounds and reject non-target sounds along with ease of installation along a chain-link fence or other fenced perimeter, creates a unique "Smart Fence."