At
the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition 2013, Sonardyne
showcased its Sentinel system. Sentinel IDS® is the worlds biggest
selling underwater diver detection sonar. Since its launch it has rapidly
gained acceptance across the entire market spectrum protecting Ports
and Harbours, Naval Platforms, Commercial Vessels, Megayachts, Critical
Infrastructure and VIP Assets.
Sentinel takes reliable, long range underwater intruder detection to
a new level. The system has been developed from inception specifically
for the purpose of detection and tracking difficult to find underwater
targets.
The system is small, lightweight, has a low false alarm rate and, once
configured, can be left to operate autonomously. The flexibility afforded
by Sentinel’s small footprint, with its full 360° detection
area and network head capability, outperforms far more expensive and
complex technologies.
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For
expeditionary installations, the system is flexible and capable of rapid
deployment by unskilled operators. For permanent installations, the
same subsea hardware can be deployed in many different configurations
with full functionality providing the user with complete underwater
domain awareness.
The state-of-the-art techniques adopted by Sonardyne deliver class leading
performance which has seen Sentinel adopted as the standard by military,
government and private agencies worldwide to protect vessels, strategic
waterside infrastructure and VIPs.
The reliable detection of underwater targets and their discrimination
from marine mammals is a notoriously difficult problem. The Sentinel
IDS system addresses this challenge by combining state-of-the-art sonar
technology, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) based processing units and
automated detection, classification and tracking software which has
been tested and proven in extensive trials.
The result is a system that can function in a wide a range of acoustically
complex subsea environments and ensure that only genuine threats are
highlighted. This minimises false alarms and reduces the dangerous tension
that these can generate.
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