Break-in detection sensor

• US 7,385,506 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2006
• Issued: 06/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanki Engineering Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sanki Engineering Company Limited
• Inventors: Tsuchiya, Fumiaki, Nozawa, Toshihiro, Ishi, Shinya, Shibata, Norihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER
• Application Number:
  US11/336,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20060197665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• Field of Search: 340/557, 340/555, 340/556, 340/564, 340/541, 250/227.16, 398/214
• US Class Current: 340/557
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/124 with the breaking or disturbance being optically detected, e.g. optical fibers in the perimeter fence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/186 using light guides, e.g. optical fibres

Abstract

Intrusion by climbing or jumping over a fence can be detected, and intrusion is detected in a wide area without large-scale equipment. FBGs (grating sections) of different types having different refractive indexes of fiber glass are arranged at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of optical fibers 12, 13A, and 13B, the optical fibers are laid down between poles on the top of a fence or a side thereof, reflected waves from the FBGs are issued by photodetection devices 14, 15A, and 15B in response to an optical input to the optical fibers, and a wavelength shift detection device 16 detects a position of an FBG which exhibits a wavelength shift by swinging of the optical fibers by a stress acting on the fence. A pattern recognition device 19 fetches positions of the wavelength-shifted FBGs as differences between timings of the pulse signals and discriminates swinging of the fence caused by intrusion from swinging of the fence caused by other factors on the basis of output patterns of the pulse signals.

Claims

1. A break-in detection sensor of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) type in which FBGs (grating sections) of different types having different refractive indexes of fiber glass are arranged at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of an optical fiber, the optical fiber is laid down on at least one of the top and side of a fence installed along an area to be detected, reflected waves from the FBGs are issued in response to an optical input to the optical fiber, and a position of an FBG which exhibits a wavelength shift is detected as an intrusion position, comprising

detection means for detecting a reflective wavelength shift from the FBG caused by swinging of the optical fiber by stress acting on the fence to detect intrusion by an aspect of the wavelength shift.

2. The break-in detection sensor according to claim 1, wherein the detection means comprises light detection means for detecting reflective wavelength shifts from the FBGs as changes in frequency of electric signals, wavelength shift detection means for detecting positions of the wavelength-shifted FBGs by comparison between frequency signals and a reference frequency signal as differences between timings of pulse signals, and pattern recognition means for discriminating swinging of the fence by an intruder from the fence from swinging of the fence by other factors on the basis of output patterns (aspects) of the pulse signals.

3. The break-in detection sensor according to claim 2, wherein the pattern recognition means has a pattern table in which combinations of items sorted by different manners of intrusion from the fence, items sorted by the other factors, and items sorted by the output patterns of the pulse signals are set as table data, and the pattern table is compared with the output patterns of the pulse signals to discriminate the swinging of the fence by intrusion from the swinging of the fence by the other factors.

4. The break-in detection sensor according to claim 2, wherein the pattern recognition means includes means for automatically adjusting values of the pattern table by a learning function.

5. The break-in detection sensor according to claim 1, wherein the detection means has a configuration in which detection of the reflected waves from the FBGs is performed by calculating averages a plurality of times.

6. The break-in detection sensor according to claim 1, wherein the detection means has a configuration in which a final decision is made by performing intrusion detection a plurality of times.