Description

This issue of Homeland Security Alert focusses on road transportation security and management technologies and provides strategic insights on IP activity, key initiatives, growth factors, and target applications. Innovations profiled in this issue fall under driver safety and monitoring, traffic management and enforcement, fleet monitoring, and in-vehicle surveillance.

The Homeland Security Alert captures global innovations and developments related to homeland security on a monthly basis. Technologies enabling security segments, including incident management, border security, CBRNE, disaster management, cybersecurity, first responders, critical infrastructure protection, maritime security, food security, personal protective equipment, and airport security are captured in this alert.

The need for low power, smaller, lighter sensors with enhanced performance attributes and minimal false alarms is driving innovations in the sensors space. The Sensors and Control cluster covers innovations pertaining to technologies such as wireless sensors and networks, energy harvesting, haptics and touch, MEMS and nanosensors, terahertz, ubiquitous/smart sensors, CBRNE, quantified-self, sensor fusion, M2M communications, and drones.

Keywords: transportation safety, traffic monitoring, automatic license plate recognition, driver monitoring, in-vehicle surveillance, fleet management, traffic enforcement