The HOSDB Imagery Library for Intelligent Detection Systems (i-LIDS) Project evaluates products for use in government installations, and has given the ADPRO Presidium system classification from the recent Sterile Zone Monitoring Evaluations. The Presidium V1.00.02 has been classified as:

'i-LIDS approved secondary detection system for operational alert use in sterile zone monitoring applications'

"We are one of only a handful of manufacturers across Europe to have attained this recommendation from such a prestigious testing body," says Jeff Kitching, ADPRO sales director. "HOSDB is the recognised authority in this area and the testing was some of the most rigorous that the ADPRO Presidium has ever been subjected to. It is therefore all the more gratifying to see that it performed so well."

The ADPRO Presidium is an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System that is designed to deliver the maximum detection performance and minimum false alarm probability in the most demanding outdoor perimeter and area protection applications.

Incorporating more than 25 years of research & development, the ADPRO Presidium utilises flexible lighting compensation, multiple scene models, and practical object filters to give the highest likelihood of detecting intruders under a wide range of conditions. Detection can be tailored for specific applications based on the level of perceived threat, with performance not being compromised during periods of scene change such as those caused by cloud shadows.

The ADPRO Presidium also features automatic scene learning and intelligent algorithms to dramatically reduce false alarm rates caused by small animals, trees and their shadows, car headlights and adverse weather conditions such as heavy wind or rain.

The system's performance is complemented by its ease of installation and commissioning; an intuitive PC-based graphical user interface (GUI) has an intelligent pre-configured settings feature that enables quick set-up either on site or remotely over IP. Comprehensive facilities are also provided that enable easy integration with ADPRO FastTrace and FastTX as well as the PRO series range of PIR detectors to offer a complete remote site security solution.

ADPRO Presidium features from one to 10 video modules (two cameras per module), with each module providing connectivity for additional alarm inputs, channel isolate inputs and an alarm output. Amongst other things the main chassis provides access/secure input, general alarm output, and LAN and WAN Ethernet connections.

"ADPRO Presidium is considerably more advanced than other technologies on the market," Mr Kitching continues. "Smarter algorithms make it more powerful and more capable of filtering out such things as car headlights, tree shadows, snow, rain, even the reflection of water from puddles, all of which could have previously triggered a false alarm."

"Target sizing is similarly more accurate: cats, birds, rabbits and other small mammals can be easily discriminated and ignored, and alarms generated by camera shake and scene wobbles can similarly be rejected" Kitching adds.

"Advances in technology have also helped in terms of ease of installation," he adds. "Quick set-up features are available with a smaller number of parameters to be taken into consideration. Connectivity with other devices is also much easier. ADPRO to ADPRO, for example, is a straightforward Ethernet connection; ADPRO to third-party technologies is equally easy via contact outputs and a series of interfaces."

As Mr Kitching concludes: "ADPRO Presidium with its dedicated Intelligent Intrusion Detection technology provides an easy to install system which will reliably detect intruders in difficult environments with the lowest false alarm rates possible. And now we have the proof to back up what we say!"