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Advanced fiber optics combine with real-time streaming data
To meet these requirements, the lab turned to IBM business partner TerraEchos to implement an
advanced, covert security and surveillance system, based on the TerraEchos Adelos S4 System, an
IBM System x 3650 server, and IBM InfoSphere Streams software, part of the IBM Big Data plat-
form. The TerraEchos Adelos S4 solution offers advanced fiber-optic acoustic sensor technology
licensed from the U.S. Navy. InfoSphere Streams is the engine that processes digital acoustic data in
motion continuously from fiber-optic sensor arrays.
Solution components
Software: IBM InfoSphere
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Streams
Server: IBM System x
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3650
Serving as the underlying analytics platform, the processing capacity of InfoSphere Streams
enables the Adelos S4 solution to analyze and classify streaming acoustic data in real time.
InfoSphere Streams collects data from multiple sensor types and enables associated streams of
structured and unstructured data to be integrated into an intelligence system for threat detection, clas-
sification, correlation, prediction, and communication by means of a service-oriented architecture
(SOA). Based on this technology, TerraEchos provides one of the most robust surveillance classifi-
cation systems in the industry, and is the first fiber-optic sensor company to incorporate InfoSphere
Streams as the computational platform for sensor data analytics.
Extending the security perimeter creates a strategic advantage
Because the solution captures and transmits real-time streaming acoustical data from around the lab
premises, security staff has unprecedented insight into any event. The system enables lab and security
personnel to “hear” what is going on—even when the disturbance is miles away. In this way, it is
possible to confidently identify and classify a potential security threat—and take appropriate action.
Dr. Philp (Dr. Alex Philp, Founder and CTO, TerraEchos, Inc) states:
We use the fiber-optic cable as a sensing array. The listening devices are actually virtual segments
of the cable, so think of a cable a mile long. We break it down digitally into individual microphones
or individual listening areas of one meter, and these distances can change. The beauty of this
extended perimeter security system is that it is completely passive. Using miles of fiber-optic cables
and thousands of listening devices buried underground, the lab can extend its perimeter security
and gain a strategic advantage.
Correlating sensor data delivers a zero false-positive rate
The solution is part of a more comprehensive security system. With the ability to integrate and col-
lect data from video and airborne surveillance systems, lab personnel gain a holistic view of potential
threats and issues—or nonissues. Dr. Philp explains:
In addition to detection, classification, localization, and tracking, correlating the analy-
sis from acoustic sensors and video cameras provides for verification and validation and a zero
