Security Barrier Tunnels for Integrated Communications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security systems for protecting facilities and personnel from military or terrorist threats lack integration of physical and cyber security, failing to provide early warning and effective response to threats, and are not adaptable to varying conditions.
Innovation Solution
The integration of tunnels within security barriers to protect communications and power lines, use of barrier modules to house sensors and equipment, and the implementation of redundant and dynamic communication networks, along with countermeasures and power conservation techniques, to create a synergistic security system that can adapt to threats and operate autonomously.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If barrier modules are constructed with solid material to stop and destroy terrorist vehicles and protect against blast waves, then physical security is improved, but communication infrastructure integration is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds communication conduits and power lines within tunnels inside the solid barrier modules. The barriers are designed with internal cavities that nest communication infrastructure within the physical protection structure, allowing both functions to coexist without compromising either security or communication capability
Solution Approach 2:
The barrier modules serve multiple functions: they provide physical security by stopping vehicles and protecting against blasts, while simultaneously housing communication conduits and power lines. The modular design allows the same structure to fulfill both protective and infrastructural roles
2Reliability
If redundant communication networks are implemented to ensure secure communications, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication network is divided into multiple independent pathways running through different barrier modules. Each module contains its own conduits for communication lines, creating segmented redundant paths that can operate independently, ensuring reliability without requiring a single complex centralized system
Solution Approach 2:
The system can dynamically switch between different communication pathways depending on which are functional. The network structure adapts to damage or maintenance needs by rerouting communications through alternative tunnels and modules, maintaining reliability while managing complexity through flexible configuration
Data Source
AI summary
Security systems may include sensing, networked communications, stealth, alarms, and countermeasures, any or all of which may adapt to threats. These systems may also include armor and barriers of concrete and/or steel. They can adapt to severity of threats, weather, and/or other situational aspects. They can anticipate at least some threats in order to obtain early warning and react more quickly to those threats. They can adapt by altering their configurations, including alterations in communication networking structures and methods, and changes in data-storage and processing duties at processing nodes. Defensive and/or offensive countermeasures can be employed to deter, confuse, trap, and/or disable terrorists. The systems are capable of self-maintenance, self-healing, and self-restoration as threats subside. The systems can include subsystems capable of autonomous operation. At least some of the systems and/or their subsystems are capable of allocating power among subsystems, and of regulating bandwidth utilizations.