Navtech will be demonstrating how easy it is to deliver high performance and flexibility to the challenging problem of securing large, open sites at this year's IFSEC at the NEC in Birmingham, May 10 -13. The company has fitted a Land Rover with a mobile radar unit and all the necessary equipment to monitor the approaches to the main entrance of the world's leading global annual security event.

Sales & Marketing Manager, Jason Burger, explains, "AdvanceGuard is a wide area intrusion detection system but, unlike traditional perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS), the solution provides surveillance and tracking both inside and outside the perimeter. The new witness software suite - which we're launching at this year's IFSEC show - is an automated solution capable of allowing a single operator, through the use of intelligent threat analysis, to focus on qualified alarms over a large complex site. The software solution uses radar data with PTZ CCTV cameras and employs highly configurable and flexible alarm rules to manage multiple security zones".

"The Land Rover will be parked on the parking lot in front of Hall 5 - close to the lake. We will be giving live scheduled demonstrations throughout all 4 days of the show. Radar is obviously a technology which is used for surveillance and securing of large outdoor applications, so we're extremely pleased to have this opportunity to give IFSEC visitors the opportunity to experience for themselves how the system picks up, follows tracks and raises alarms. We will also be demonstrating how the system can work with different tracking zones. As we're using a radar capable of overlooking a radius of 350 m, this means we'll even be able to track vehicles and people moving on the road across the lake leading up to the Hilton Metropole".

Visitors will also see how the operator is presented with processed information which has already gone through the pre-configured alarm rules specific to the customer's requirements. This facility dramatically reduces the risk of false alarms and increases the likelihood of distinguishing friend from foe. The new witness software is the culmination of 10 years continuous innovation and customer feedback and outside of making it flexible the company's aim has further focused on enabling reduced hardware costs by better use of cameras and radar and facilitating better utilisation of man power.