Integrated Shipboard Multi-function Surveillance System Navy SBIR FY2005.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.2 Topic No.: N05-131 Topic Title: Integrated Shipboard Multi-function Surveillance System Proposal No.: N052-131-0390 Firm: MaXentric Technologies LLC 2071 Lemoine Avenue Suite 302 Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024 Contact: Houman Ghajari Phone: (858) 272-8800 Web Site: www.maxentric.com Abstract: Around-the-clock vigilance of valuable military assets, even in an ostensibly secure setting, requires substantial human effort and even the slightest error can result in disastrous consequences. MaXentric is proposing ISWAS, an Integrated Shipboard Wireless Autonomous Surveillance system, to reduce the probability of error and allow trained personnel to perform other critical tasks. ISWAS is a comprehensive solution, covering, sensor interface, wireless transport network, and data interface. ISWAS utilizes open standard architectures such as OSGi and allows multiple operators to utilize the same sensor network for different tasks. ISWAS combines Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) wireless networking components with a hardware adapter that uses innovative yet proven technology in order to create a jam-free, secure, and robust wireless sensor network. The control modules for COTS sensors are rapidly deployable plug-and-play modules that support multiple sensor types, and the Fuzzy Logic user interface allows the operator to set criteria for intelligent autonomous surveillance. Benefits: MaXentric's ISWAS, an Integrated Shipboard Wireless Autonomous Surveillance system, provides the security, interoperability, and stability required for today's surveillance systems. ISWAS has wide applicability to surveillance systems needed for military applications such as intelligence preparation of the battlefield, perimeter monitoring, and homeland security radiation and chemical-biological hazard monitoring. Along with the Navy DD(X) program, the Army's Future Combat System can compliment the networked "system of systems" and provide broad surveillance data down to the individual soldier. Department of Homeland Security objectives, which includes fighting terrorism, illicit trafficking, and violent crimes, can integrate ISWAS into existing technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles to widen their operational areas and strengthen security with reduced manpower. The technology developed under ISWAS can benefit individual citizens and commercial markets. Along with better security, ISWAS improves situational awareness for companies and institutions, allowing better service for customers and patients, and more efficient allocation of resources. Some of the commercial market segments that ISWAS can apply to are social services and health care, public security, private property protection, and environmental monitoring. Return