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- Combined detection technologies — including
Z Backscatter™, Transmission, Shaped Energy® (high-energy transmission), and Radioactive Threat Detection - providing the highest level of detection in the industry - Z Backscatter technology — only available from AS&E — for photo-like X-ray images revealing the threats that competitive systems miss, such as explosives, plastic weapons, and drugs
- "Solutions approach" supports seamless integration into multi-tiered inspection programs, with multiple configurations — mobile, relocatable and fixed-site — to meet your specific requirements
AS&E's Cargo and Vehicle inspection systems are engineered to provide security personnel with an effective means of detection without disrupting the flow of commerce.
AS&E uses the most advanced proprietary technologies in the industry to deliver X-ray inspection systems that can detect a multitude of threats and contraband, including:
- Illegal Drugs
- Illegal Immigrants
- Plastic Weapons and Explosives, including car and truck bombs
- Radioactive Threats, including nuclear devices and dirty bombs
- Smuggled goods, such as alcohol, tobacco products, and other legal goods smuggled to evade duties (trade fraud)
- Metal weapons
- Shielding to conceal radioactive materials
These systems can inspect cars, vans, and trucks, as well as palletized cargo, and air and sea cargo containers. We offer our systems in a variety of configurations to give customers maximum flexibility, safety, and utility when implementing security solutions.
AS&E's Comprehensive Family of Cargo and Vehicle Inspection Systems:
MobileSearch HE: New mobile, high-energy cargo and vehicle inspection system offering detailed inspection, plus flexible scan modes for the added versatility of the ZBV.
Z Backscatter Van (ZBV): The most maneuverable, versatile mobile X-ray detection system on the market; a low cost highly mobile screening system built into a commercially available delivery van, offering rapid "drive-by" Z Backscatter screening.
Z Portal: Cargo and vehicle screening system offers high-throughput, drive-through, multi-view screening for cars, vans, and their cargo with Z Backscatter imaging. The system is safe for drivers and passengers to remain in their vehicle during screening.
Sentry Portal: New advanced, high-throughput, high-penetration, drive-through inspection system.
OmniView Gantry: Cargo and vehicle inspection system with high-energy X-ray transmission inspection for high-penetration into complex cargo and dense objects - up to 14 inches (350 mm) of steel - without requiring an exterior building or heavy shielding.
Z Gantry: Cargo and vehicle screening system offers bi-directional, multi-view Z Backscatter scanning by moving on rails for screening cargo and vehicles. The Z Gantry is ideal for high-traffic locations with space constraints and is extremely safe for operators, cargo, and the environment.
- Multi-technology inspection systems with simultaneous Z Backscatter™ and dual-energy transmission X-rays provide the most information about the object under examination
- Proprietary Z Backscatter technology to detect organic threats and contraband that other systems miss -- explosives, plastic weapons, and drugs
- Available with a variety of tunnel sizes, to accommodate mail and baggage to small cargo
AS&E's mail, parcel and baggage inspection systems utilize complementary technologies, Z Backscatter plus transmission X-rays, to provide safe, effective, and non-intrusive security solutions. Photo-like Z Backscatter images, in addition to transmission X-rays, reveal organic materials and add clarity to expedite inspection. AS&E parcel and baggage inspection systems are designed to quickly detect even the most elusive threats or contraband in parcels of all sizes.
Gemini is available with multiple tunnel sizes, to accommodate mail and baggage to small cargo.
- Gemini 6040: With a tunnel size of 64 cm x 44 cm for checkpoint, mailroom, and lobby applications.
- Gemini 7555: With a tunnel size of 78 cm x 58 cm to accommodate large packages for checkpoint, mailroom, and lobby applications.
- Gemini 100100: With a tunnel size of 105 cm x 102.5 cm for breakbulk cargo and large packages for high threat facilities, airports, mailrooms, and Customs checkpoints
Personnel Inspection is a crucial part of any threat detection effort. Today, threats can take the smallest of forms and are often easily hidden on a person. And with the advent of suicide bombings, personnel screening has taken on an even more important role. Personnel screening is also important in the effort to intercept prohibited substances, such as drugs and weapons.
Current personnel inspection methods include invasive and time-consuming pat-down and strip searches. Technologies such as walk-through metal detectors can miss organic threats, including ceramic knives, plastic guns and deadly explosives.
AS&E's technology provides a solution to these and other problems. Our SmartCheck personnel inspection system provides highly effective, safe and non-invasive personnel screening for threats and contraband
- Z Backscatter™ technology reveals the threats competitive systems miss — plastic explosives, plastic weapons, liquid explosives, dirty bombs and nuclear devices.
- Superior, proprietary technologies combine to create the most comprehensive inspection systems in the marketplace for superior X-ray threat detection.
- AS&E systems protect high-threat facilities and help combat terrorism and trade fraud, drug smuggling, weapon smuggling, and illegal immigration and people smuggling.
AS&E provides the most advanced and comprehensive X-ray inspection systems for border, port, governments, military, aviation, and corporate security across the globe. AS&E specializes in detection technologies that can uncover dangerous and elusive threats, including explosives, plastic and metal weapons, and radioactive devices, such as dirty bombs and nuclear WMD. AS&E X-ray systems are deployed worldwide at ports and borders, and military and high-threat facilities. Our signature technology, Z Backscatter™, gives our systems unparalleled detection capabilities, making it the technology of choice when the highest levels of security are required.
AS&E produces state-of-the-art X-ray inspection systems to meet the specific needs and challenges to address:
- Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Solutions
- Military Solutions
- Port and Border Solutions
- Facility and Event Solutions
- High Threat and Critical Infrastructure
- Aviation Solutions
- All of our systems utilize Z Backscatter technology, revealing the threats competitive systems miss – explosives, plastic weapons, and drugs.
- AS&E systems are safe and effective.
- Superior, proprietary technologies combine to create the most comprehensive inspection systems in the marketplace.
- Customizable system configurations – mobile, relocatable, and fixed-site
AS&E's history of technological innovation in the field of X-rays goes back more than 40 years. Today, AS&E continues to innovate with the development of the most advanced technologies available in X-ray inspection systems. Our proprietary technology is what gives AS&E products the capabilities you simply can't find in other X-ray inspection systems.
Patented Z Backscatter™ technology provides photo-like images that reveal organic threats and contraband, including explosives, plastic weapons and drugs. Transmission X-rays, a traditional detection technology, is added to our products for penetration and detection of inorganic contraband. Dual-energy transmission provides excellent image resolution as well as additional image analysis capabilities and some degree of material discrimination. Shaped Energy™ technology, our high-energy X-ray solution, provides even more penetration for the inspection of dense sea containers and other objects, without employing a radioactive source -- preserving safety and functionality. Finally, Radioactive Threat Detection technology helps locate dirty bombs and nuclear devices, in addition to conventional threats during X-ray screening.