Installment #2 here folks, this time it’s the Tactical Unattended Ground Sensor. Basically it’s a more robust version of the U-UGS we posted earlier that is designed to be placed in the field.
One commander I spoke with said he likes the idea and sees some use for it at a vehicle checkpoint, for example. With the camera trained on the driver or passengers, the image can be transmitted via the network to a commander’s vehicle or the TOC and compared to an HVT database or a BOLO vehicle description. Rather than relying on the trooper at the checkpoint to do the forensics, the sensor can provide that link back to the head shed where more information lives.
The commander did say that, as with the U-UGS, this system still has a way to go in its ability to capture images quick enough and in a resolution high enough to really do the IMINT. Again, he said “it’s giving me yesterday’s news.”
It’s all part of the development, of course, and this is precisely what the limited user test is intended to do — find those practical flaws and find ways to fix them.
(Video: CLowe)
– Christian
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At the end of the last video, he mentioned that each sensor has a “live duration” of only 96 hours. That’s only four days! So basically, the system is useless. Our troops have enough to do without setting up and replacing scores of these things every four days.
I don’t get how these companies are beings given obscene amounts of money to design systems that any idiot can see are doomed to fail from the start. I think this guy gets it:
http://fora.tv/2009/02/19/Ralph_Osterhout_Invention_Is_the_Mother_of_Creativity
I suspect the sensors have a sleep mode therefore these can likely be programmed to turn on given a one or more conditions. For example if a magnetic sensor had a hit then the video sensor could be programmed to activate. Further the short duration is probably limited to use of the video sensor. These are significant improvements over the PEWS, REMBASS, and I-REMBASS systems. The later system had IR, magnetic, and seismic sensors that had 30 batteries that lasted 30 days.
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Why we do not need the Army FCS's T-UGS? These sensors and its Gateway form a mesh network using zigbee at 2,4 GHz. In theory the Gateways are suppose to send back video via the JTRS WNW radio to a WIN-T node, which sends the video via a SATCOM link, for example The first problem is one is "tied" to the Gateways or Gateway with a short range wideband radio (WNW waveform), which will have a maximum range of less than 2 miles. Who will be with the radio or radios at each Gateway; relay node to send back video. Another problem will be the limited range of the sensors linking each other with the Gateways. Most likely the maximum range of this mesh network will be limited to 500 meters or less. This architecture does not make sense!