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Border Protection and Perimeter Surveillance
Wiseled provides long-range white light, IR illumination and precision laser pointing for border protection and perimeter surveillance programmes. FALCON searchlight platform. RS422 integration. MIL-STD certified.
Border protection programmes face a consistent challenge: large areas to monitor, limited personnel to cover them, and an operational requirement that runs continuously at night as well as in daylight. The surveillance capability that makes sustained, cost-effective border monitoring possible is built on EO/IR sensor systems – cameras, thermal imagers and the illumination infrastructure that makes them perform at night.
Wiseled provides the long-range illumination and laser capability that extends surveillance performance beyond what standard searchlight and IR LED technology delivers – with the RS422 interfaces, military power qualification and integration documentation that border surveillance integrators require.
Border surveillance systems detect movement across large areas. Detection is the relatively tractable part of the problem – thermal imaging handles it reliably in darkness at relevant ranges. Positive identification of detected contacts – establishing whether a detected movement is a person, an animal, a vehicle or a false alarm – requires optical image quality that thermal imaging alone does not consistently provide at range.
The identification range that matters operationally is typically 500 m to several kilometres, depending on the terrain and the site. Standard LED searchlight technology reaches practical limits well inside that envelope. The FALCON’s LEP module delivers luminous intensity and beam quality at range that exceeds what xenon-based and LED searchlight technology can match at equivalent power consumption – providing the optical identification capability at the ranges that border surveillance programmes actually require.
The FALCON delivers up to 20,000,000 cd with adjustable divergence from 1 to 13 degrees, providing 0.25 lux at 8,940 m. At 1 degree divergence the beam covers a narrow, high-intensity column suited to long-range identification of specific contacts. Wider divergence settings support area illumination at closer ranges. The operator or integrated C2 system selects beam divergence to match the operational geometry of a specific detection event.
Colour temperature is 6,000 K – daylight quality white light that supports colour-accurate recording for evidential and identification purposes.
For surveillance sectors where white light activation would compromise operational security or alert subjects to monitoring, the FALCON’s Class 3B IR laser illuminator provides covert near-infrared illumination at 860 nm. IR illumination extends camera performance in darkness without any visible signature, supporting continuous covert monitoring of approaches and contact zones.
The IR illuminator can be operated independently of the white light module, allowing sectors to be monitored covertly until a contact warrants a white light identification response.
Border surveillance operations routinely involve coordination between ground-based sensors and airborne assets – helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft carrying NVG-equipped crews or IR sensor systems. The FALCON’s Class 3B IR laser pointer provides a precision 1 mrad aim point visible to NVG and IR sensors, enabling accurate target indication to airborne assets without radio communication or visible light signals.
This is particularly relevant for intercept and apprehension operations where the ground surveillance system has a confirmed contact and needs to hand off precise location to an airborne response asset.
The FALCON integrates with standard border surveillance C2 architectures via RS422 remote control. All functions – white light, IR illuminator, IR pointer, beam divergence, output mode and intensity – are addressable through the RS422 command set, supporting fully remote operation from a control room or integrated VMS platform. The 12-32 V DC input range is compatible with standard vehicle, vessel and fixed-installation power supplies.
For integrators building multi-sensor border surveillance packages, Wiseled provides interface documentation, command register definitions and pre-integration engineering support as standard.
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