Seismic intrusion detector system

• US 3,984,803 A
• Filed: 09/06/1967
• Issued: 10/05/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1967
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Energy Research and Development Administration
• Original Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Energy Research and Development Administration
• Inventors: Hawley, James G., Portlock, John M., Hawk, Hervey L., Scheibner, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moskowitz, Nelson
• Application Number:
  US04/667,047
• Time in Patent Office: 3,317 Days
• Field of Search: 340/258, 340/258 D, 340/261, 340/16 R, 340/224, 340/412
• US Class Current: 367/2
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 1/001 Acoustic presence detection
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1663 using seismic sensing means

Abstract

A system for monitoring man-associated seismic movements within a control area including a geophone for generating an electrical signal in response to seismic movement, a bandpass amplifier and threshold detector for eliminating unwanted signals, pulse counting system for counting and storing the number of seismic movements within the area, and a monitoring system operable on command having a variable frequency oscillator generating an audio frequency signal proportional to the number of said seismic movements.

Claims

1. A surveillance system for monitoring man-associated seismic movements within a control area, comprising:

means for generating an electrical signal responsive to seismic movement of the generating means;

a bandpass amplifier coupled to said generating means and having a bandpass between about 10 and 40 Hz to permit electrical signals representative of man-associated movements to pass;

threshold detector means for sensing signals from said bandpass amplifier exceeding a preselected voltage level greater than signals generated within said area by normal background noise within the bandpass range and for generating a pulse coicident with the first cycle of the seismic signal each time said voltage level is exceeded;

inhibitor circuit means for generating pulses responsive to said detector means output pulses separated by more than a given time period;

precounter means responsive to said trigger pulses for generating a resultant pulse when a preselected number of trigger pulses have been counted representing each man-associated intrusion into said control area;

counter means for counting said resultant pulses and for generating a volage proportional to the total count in said counter means;

normally disabled variable frequency oscillator means for generating an audio frequency signal proportional to the amplitude of said counter voltage;

means for enabling said oscillator means and for monitoring the resulting audio frequency signal to determine the number of man-associated seismic movements within said area.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said enabling and monitoring means includes a readout means for converting said audio frequency signal to an indication of the total count in said counter means.

3. The system of claim 2 including first radio wave means for transmitting said audio signal to said readout means at a location remote from said generating means.

4. The system of claim 3 having a second radio wave means coupled to said readout means including code signals generating means and wherein said enabling and monitoring means include code signal decoding means.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein said code signal generating means includes means for generating a multifrequency composite waveform of preselected frequencies and said decoding means includes means for separating said composite waveform into its separate frequencies, logic means for comparing these frequencies with preselected code frequencies to determine if the code signal includes the preselected code frequencies and means for enabling said variable frequency oscillator means and a portion of said radio wave means.

6. The system of claim 2 wherein said variable frequency oscillator means generates a preselected one of a plurality of frequencies for a given counter voltage and said readout means includes a count-rate circuit and visual indicator for each of said frequencies.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein each of said count-rate circuits includes a monostable multivibrator pulse width and a integrating RC circuit having a time constant dependent on the frequency to be measured by its associated count-rate circuit.

8. The system of claim 2 wherein said readout means includes a transducer for converting said audio frequency signal to sound waves.