Saw a story about this done by a San Diego Television Station, CBS8, (See the video) on the Coast Guard’s “News and Blog Summary.”  If it works as advertised, it could be a huge step forward in port security and maritime domain awareness.  A network of buoys, linked together to a shore facility by Wi-Fi detects, locates, and provides imagery of vessels carrying explosives or radioactive material. To get more detail, I contacted, Intellicheck Mobilisa, the contractor that is developing the system.  I was able to ask a few questions of their vice president for Marketing, Kenna Pope.

The ability to simultaneously screen large numbers of containers implicit in this technology is also interesting.

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