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How do you protect an outdoor perimeter?

With the technology that stands up to that particular perimeter, and almost never with only one. Out there you have wind, fog, rain, animals, vegetation that grows and ground that moves, and each system fails at different things.

The order of work is always the same. First you walk the whole perimeter and decide what has to be detected and where it is not needed. Then you look at what is on both sides —a street, waste ground, a river, the neighbour's industrial unit, a railway line—, because that is what is going to generate the alerts. And only then do you choose. A perimeter with twice the points it needs does not protect twice as much: it gives twice the alerts and ends up ignored.

Two things are worth more than the technology chosen: keeping the detection strip clear —vegetation, pallets, tarpaulins, piled-up snow— and combining two different criteria where the surroundings are difficult, so that agreement is required before treating the alert as an intrusion. That last one is what separates a perimeter that gets used from one that gets ignored.

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A written answer is enough to decide whether it interests you. To know whether it works at your site you have to see it on a real scene, with the image as it is and, on top of it, what the system understands from it. That is on the IRIS Neural website, which is the group's product.