Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc, an ISTC Partner since 2004, has announced that the ISTC project jointly developed with the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetic (RSSCRTC), Saint Petersburg, has won their award, “Best Technology Development of the Year 2007”.

During a visit to the St Petersburg Institute, Hitachi Kokusai President, Mr. Kunio Hasegawa, congratulated the project team on their success and confirmed the company’s intention to continue its cooperative relationship with the Institute. He reviewed the technological and commercial results of the project and examined possible improvements to the security and threat detection technology that had been created.

With over 50 systems delivered to customers in Japan, the device, which protects infrastructure or individuals against the risk of terrorism, crime, or malicious intent, is proving to be one of ISTC’s most commercially accomplished projects.

ISTC congratulates the joint project team from Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc and the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetic on their success.

Institute: Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetic, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Partner: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Japan

The purpose of the project is to protect infrastructure or individuals against the risk of terrorism, crime or malicious intent.

The purpose of the project is to protect infrastructure or individuals against the risk of terrorism, crime or malicious intent. The project is developing an integrated software and hardware system able to protect buildings of critical or national importance that, if destroyed, would have serious impact on the population’s health, safety, security or economic well being. The system is particularly required to safeguard governmental institutions and infrastructure against possible acts of terrorism, and to detect unauthorized intrusion into closed zones or private property. Both systems immediately notify the relevant authorities or persons of potential intrusions. Two types of alarm system were developed:

Two types of alarm system were developed:

- An alarm system for the protection of critical infrastructures. The system, based on the application of stereovision, interacts with other applications such as rangefinders and intelligent computer software to identify suspicious individuals or objects.

- An alarm system for civil application, protecting private houses, offices, stores, cottages and garages. The system identifies possible intrusion into a property in land and detects any invader.

Newly developed technologies for intruder recognition, coupled with intelligent software analysis of a potential suspicious character, were brought together in this challenging project creating a safer environment.