Security system

• US 9,251,678 B1
• Filed: 10/14/2013
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia LLC (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Inventors: Baumann, Mark J., Kuca, Michal, Aragon, Mona L.
• Primary Examiner(s): La, Anh V
• Application Number:
  US14/053,217
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• Field of Search: 340/540, 340/541, 340/545.6, 340/545.2, 340/545.3, 340/545.1, 340/568.1, 250/227.1, 250/227.16, 250/227.14, 250/227.15, 702/66, 702/67, 702/781, 702/31
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/08 by opening, e.g. of door, of window, of drawer, of shutter, of curtain, of blind
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/126 for a housing, e.g. a box, a safe, or a room

Abstract

A security system includes a structure having a structural surface. The structure is sized to contain an asset therein and configured to provide a forceful breaching delay. The structure has an opening formed therein to permit predetermined access to the asset contained within the structure. The structure includes intrusion detection features within or associated with the structure that are activated in response to at least a partial breach of the structure.

Claims

1. A security system comprising:

a structure having a structural surface, the structure sized to contain an asset therein and configured to provide a forceful breaching delay;

the structure having an opening formed therein to permit predetermined access to the asset contained within the structure; and

the structure including intrusion detection features within or associated with the structure that are activated in response to at least a partial breach of the structure;

wherein the structure comprises interconnected structural members; and

wherein the intrusion detection features include a strand of flexible material extending within at least one interconnected edge member, opposed ends of the strand received by an interface component;

sufficient damage to the strand as sensed by the interface component resulting in generation of an alarm signal corresponding to at least a partial breach of the structure; and

wherein the at least one interconnected edge member at least partially defines at least one interconnected structural member comprising an opening.

2. The security system of claim 1, wherein the strand comprises a fiber-optic fiber.

3. The security system of claim 1, wherein the intrusion detection features include at least one panel assembly substantially covering the structural surface, the panel assembly having an opening substantially aligned with the opening formed in the structure.

4. The security system of claim 3, wherein the panel assembly includes a first panel portion having a first surface and a second panel portion having a second surface, an arrangement of a strand of flexible material is provided between the first surface and the second surface prior to assembly of the first panel portion to the second panel portion.

5. The security system of claim 4, wherein predetermined lengths of the strand terminating at opposed ends of the strand sufficiently extending exterior of the assembled panel assembly, permitting the predetermined lengths of the strand to extend along or within at least a portion of the interconnected structural members with the opposed ends of the strand received by an interface component;

sufficient damage to the strand as sensed by the interface component resulting in generation of an alarm signal corresponding to at least a partial breech of the structure.

6. The security system of claim 4, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the first panel portion and the second panel portion are substantially transparent.

7. The security system of claim 4, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the first panel portion and the second panel portion are substantially translucent.

8. The security system of claim 4, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the first panel portion and the second panel portion are substantially opaque.

9. The security system of claim 4, wherein the first panel portion and the second panel portion are comprised of a non-metal.

10. The security system of claim 4, wherein the first panel portion and the second panel portion are comprised of a polycarbonate.

11. The security system of claim 4, wherein the arrangements of the strand of a flexible material substantially aligns with the plurality of interconnected structural members over which the panel assembly is installed.

12. The security system of claim 11, wherein at least a portion of the first surface of the first panel portion substantially aligning with the plurality of interconnected structural members is treated to substantially conceal the arrangement of the strand of flexible material.

13. A security system comprising:

a structure including a plurality of interconnected structural members defined at least by at least one interconnected edge member, the structure having a structural surface and sized to contain an asset therein and configured to provide a forceful breaching delay;

the structure having an opening formed therein to permit predetermined access to the asset contained within the structure;

the structure including intrusion detection features within or associated with the structure, the intrusion detection features including a strand of flexible material extending along or within at least a portion of the interconnected structural members and received by an interface component; and

wherein sufficient damage to the strand as sensed by the interface component resulting in generation of an alarm signal corresponding to at least a partial breach of the structure; and

wherein the at least one interconnected edge member at least partially defines at least one interconnected structural member comprising an opening.

14. The security system of claim 13, wherein the strand comprises a fiber-optic fiber.

15. The security system of claim 13, wherein the intrusion detection features include at least one panel assembly substantially covering the structural surface, the panel assembly having an opening substantially aligned with the opening formed in the structure.

16. The security system of claim 15, wherein the panel assembly includes a first panel portion having a first surface and a second panel portion having a second surface, an arrangement of a strand of flexible material provided between the first surface and the second surface prior to assembly of the first panel portion to the second panel portion.

17. The security system of claim 15, wherein predetermined lengths of the strand terminating at opposed ends of the strand sufficiently extending exterior of the assembled panel assembly, permitting the predetermined lengths of the strand to extend along or within at least a portion of the interconnected structural members with the opposed ends of the strand to be received by an interface component, sufficient damage to the strand as sensed by the interface component resulting in generation of an alarm signal corresponding to at least a partial breech of the structure.

18. The security system of claim 13, wherein the arrangements of the strand of the flexible material substantially aligns with the plurality of interconnected structural members over which the panel assembly is installed.

19. The security system of claim 18, wherein at least a portion of the first surface of the first panel portion substantially aligning with the plurality of interconnected structural members is treated to substantially conceal the arrangement of the strand of flexible material.