Phoenix UAV can sense you breathing
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20045941-1.html March 22, 2011 1:18 PM PDT Phoenix UAV can sense you breathing by Tim Hornyak Up, up, and away: Phoenix40-A takes to the skies after casing a building. (Credit: TiaLinx) Just when you thought you might be able to outrun the Cougar20-H surveillance robot that can detect human breathing, developer TiaLinx has launched a flying version that can do the same. The Phoenix40-A is a mini-UAV with six rotors that can detect motion and breathing when searching for hidden people. Like the Cougar20-H, it has an ultra-wideband radio frequency sensor array and can also detect motionless live objects. It also has video cameras for site surveillance. Developed with U.S. Army funding, the Phoenix unmanned aerial vehicle can be remotely controlled from ground or air with a laptop or joystick, and can fly to multiple GPS points on its missions. The flying robot's RF array can penetrate concrete walls from "an extended range," according to TiaLinx, which is based in Newport Beach, Calif. Other skills include providing the layout of a multistory building and scanning roads for unexploded ordnance. Skynet might dig that, but the Phoenix could also be deployed in humanitarian missions. It could work in disasters such as earthquakes to scan for survivors, or even find landmines in former war zones. Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20045941-1.html#ixzz1HQWyNIOH
Does my breathing produce rf signals? Infrared due to the heat but
that doesn't really penentrate walls all too well.
Anyway, time to wrap the HQ in aluminium foil.
2011/3/23 Eugen Leitl
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20045941-1.html
March 22, 2011 1:18 PM PDT
Phoenix UAV can sense you breathing
by Tim Hornyak
Up, up, and away: Phoenix40-A takes to the skies after casing a building.
(Credit: TiaLinx)
Just when you thought you might be able to outrun the Cougar20-H surveillance robot that can detect human breathing, developer TiaLinx has launched a flying version that can do the same.
The Phoenix40-A is a mini-UAV with six rotors that can detect motion and breathing when searching for hidden people.
Like the Cougar20-H, it has an ultra-wideband radio frequency sensor array and can also detect motionless live objects. It also has video cameras for site surveillance.
Developed with U.S. Army funding, the Phoenix unmanned aerial vehicle can be remotely controlled from ground or air with a laptop or joystick, and can fly to multiple GPS points on its missions.
The flying robot's RF array can penetrate concrete walls from "an extended range," according to TiaLinx, which is based in Newport Beach, Calif.
Other skills include providing the layout of a multistory building and scanning roads for unexploded ordnance.
Skynet might dig that, but the Phoenix could also be deployed in humanitarian missions. It could work in disasters such as earthquakes to scan for survivors, or even find landmines in former war zones.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20045941-1.html#ixzz1HQWyNIOH
2011/3/23 lodewijk andri de la porte
Does my breathing produce rf signals?
your body interacts with them: "... a fine beam ultra-wideband (UWB), multi-Gigahertz radio frequency (RF) sensor array ... mounted on the robots lightweight arm transmits highly directional wideband signals that are able to penetrate reinforced concrete walls at an extended range. Reflections from the targets are captured by a signal detector circuit in the receiver and amplitude and delay information is then processed in an integrated signal processor to track the targets in real time."
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Eugen Leitl wrote: <snip>
The flying robot's RF array can penetrate concrete walls from "an extended range," according to TiaLinx, which is based in Newport Beach, Calif.
Other skills include providing the layout of a multistory building and scanning roads for unexploded ordnance.
Skynet might dig that, but the Phoenix could also be deployed in humanitarian missions. It could work in disasters such as earthquakes to scan for survivors, or even find landmines in former war zones.
Yes, it *could*, and even *should* be put to such high end humanitarian uses. But how many people really believe that this will ever happen? It's *so* much more fun to use them in seizure cases, where you can beef up your budget through fee-splitting with the manufacturer and USG. //Alif -- "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech
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