From Noise to Intelligence: Transforming Perimeter Security Operations
Perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS) are often too sensitive to nuisance and false alarms. Environmental factors like wind, weather and wildlife generate excessive alarms, leading to operator fatigue, reduced trust and slower response times.
This session examines how the collaboration between end users and industry partners in combining signal analytics, computer vision (CV) and multimodal vision language models (VLM) and multisensor correlation is reshaping perimeter security at high-security sites, including U.S. government facilities. Panelists will break down the evolution from off-the-shelf models and basic signal analytics to purpose-built solutions that deliver meaningful outcomes, reducing noise to as few as 1–2 actionable alarms per month without compromising detection performance.
This session will help attendees:
- Understand why false alarms degrade performance and drive operator fatigue
- Learn how frequency-based modeling separates true threats from environmental noise
- See what effective perimeter CV and VLM artificial intelligence (AI) looks like in real-world deployments
- Integrate PACS, sensors and video to deliver high-confidence alerts
- Review results from U.S. government sites reducing alarms to 1–2 per month
- Apply layered AI to reduce noise, speed triage and strengthen operations
Speakers
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Eric DeanChief Technology Officer, Security and Electronic Systems
M.C. DeanEric Dean is the M.C. Dean chief technology officer and senior vice president for Security & Electronic Systems, which drives enterprise electronic security, cybersecurity, cloud and information technology systems design, deployment, and sustainment expertise for the company. He has more than 30 years of experience in information technology and systems engineering.
Dean serves on multiple manufacturer and standard committees for new product development and is an active member of the Security Industry Association, responsible for driving innovative approaches to the security industry.
With the growing connectivity of IoT technologies, Dean is the champion of M.C. Dean’s emerging services solution. He earned his master’s in telecommunications from the University of Maryland.
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Rhett McDonoughProject Leader, Security and Electronic Systems
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William LeonardDirector of Engineering, Security and Electronic Systems
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