General Description
AbleSentry® is a flexible, functional, integrated system designed to provide tactical early warning of a possible attack with chemical, biological, or radiological agents. Fusing data from multiple sensor nodes over a wide area, AbleSentry® provides the capability to detect invisible threat clouds in sufficient time to permit units to take protective action and thus significantly mitigate potential effects. By utilizing a true network of integrated sensor nodes, AbleSentry® provides high detection probability with low false alarm rates while utilizing straight-forward, easy-to-maintain technologies.
Technical Description
- Chemical: IMS
- Biological: Particle count, sizing, and fluorescence
- Radiological: Gamma and Neutron
Evaluation Criteria
THROUGHPUT:
- 2 minutes or less for detection
- Multiple samples, multiple tests/sample per run
- System is continuous and provides real time analysis with no defined tests/samples
- The system or device is currently semi-automated
- Device or system is intended for multiple detection assays
- 0-1 solutions, buffer, eluents, and/or reagents
- Less than 5 minutes is required for set-up
- 3-5 steps are required for detection
LOGISTICS:
- Very brief (minutes-hours) training and minimal technical skills
- Approximately the size of a carry-on luggage suitcase
- Between 5 and 25 kg
- Satellite, wireless and wired connections are available
- System or device has 110V electrical requirement
- Is commercially available and meets military specifications
OPERATIONS:
- Can be used from -21°C to 41°C
- This system does not require consumable components
- Device or system has peak performance at normal relative humidity conditions
- Greater than 10 years expected life
- Results can be viewed in real-time
- The system or device is currently fully autonomous
- The system software is closed and not available for modification
- The system hardware is open and available for modification
DETECTION:
- Superior specificity. System has a false alarm rate approaching zero (~0%)
- System does not detect spores
- System currently can detect aerosolized chemical agent
- Not possible for the system to detect liquid chemical agent
- Manual kit not integrated with the system handles spore lysis
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