Optical Intrusion Alarm for Defense of Critical Infrastructure Under Conditions of Fog, Smoke or Fire

The goal of this project is to develop a low-cost. optical sensor network suitable for broad area surveillance of the perimeter surrounding critical infrastructures; e.g., bridges, dams, refineries, nuclear power plants. reservoirs, ports, harbors, and even the U.S. border with Mexico. University of Kentucky's task in this project v;.ill be the performance analysis ofobject detection using principlcs of time series analysis and pattern recognition to estimate the probability of object detection and the accuracy of object location with networks of the sensor modules as a function of object position, object size, sen.