Hi-Tech Solutions is a leader in vision based recognition systems in Homeland Security products. In the past 2 years the Company has developed and installed dozens of systems in a wide range of applications. This page presents the current line of products.

Vision is one of the leading technologies in Homeland Security. The basic level is archiving the images for post analysis. Hi-Tech Solutions is implementing  "Smart Camera" implementations: these intelligent systems implement automatic analysis of the image, extracting the Identification information of the image in real-time, and propagating the information to control systems.

The following products are a sample of our Homeland Security products and installations.

ACTA Rail OCR installed in Compton

ACTA Rail OCR

Aiming to improve security at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, a system was designed to track the movement of cargo containers. These ports handle more than 43% of the maritime containers coming into the United States, and most of them pass through the Alameda Corridor, a cargo expressway linking the ports to the transcontinental rail network near downtown Los Angeles. Tracking and tracing the containers is important to national security because the containers could be used by terrorists to carry dangerous weapons and chemicals.

HTS designed a state-of-the-art Rail container OCR system for the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA). The system was supplied in 2005 and commissioned in 2006. It identifies double stacked containers on rail cars, on three parallel tracks, as the container trains travel through the corridor at speeds up to 40mph.

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Container depot yard

First Line of Defense systems

HTS USA has been awarded in 2005 a contract by Pacific NorthWest National Labratory (PNNL) for container OCR systems.

The systems  work in US seaports, and complement and integrate with container radiation portal systems. These portals scan the containers in order to alert on dangerous material, and the container identification is required to correlate the scanned containers with their identification.

The system is in the process of installation in many US terminals.

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Port of Algeciras, Spain

Second Line of Defense systems ("Megaport")

The Megaports Initiative is part of DOE's Office of the Second Line of Defense. Its aim is to strengthen the capacity to detect and deter illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive materials across international borders.

HTS has worked with a DOE strategic contractor and installed a Container Recognition system and integrated it with a Radiation Portal system in the Port of Algeciras, Spain. The system is managed by US customs and alerts on containers with suspected dangerous goods.

This system is now being planned for installations in other Megaport sites.

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S3 system tracks the visitors around the facility

Smart Surveillance Systems

 IBM USA has developed the Smart Surveillance Systems (S3), which allows to track visitors throughout the facility.

The system is a platform of several security subsystems, including Hi-Tech Solution's License plate Recognition (LPR). Additionally, the system integrated with facial recognition, behavior analysis software, badge reading, person tracking, and more. The visitor is tracked from the gate, within the parking lot and yard, and inside the building. Thus, achieving a large scale integrated situation awareness system.

This system can be installed in sensitive facilities, such as embassies and government buildings.

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Other Homeland Security products:

Airport Traffic Screening Systems

HTS has supplied a security system based on LPR, for the screening of all vehicles entering the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The system identifies each vehicle entering the airport over 10 separate traffic lanes, and checks out the license plate number with various security databases. The results are provided in real time and transferred to security personnel who monitor the traffic lanes.