Project Description

For the Department of Defense AMTRAK Security Pilot Project (DC Metro – Passenger), Epsilon Systems provides the following services:

• Engineering design and installation of a passenger train system virtual fence and tunnel security system (DC metro area)
• Electronic surveillance, chemical detection and processing, RFID and radiation monitoring
• Monitor passenger trains passing through the virtual fence and tunnel
• Monitor passengers for explosives in high volume – “walk thru detector”
• RFID “friend or foe” detection
• Intelligent surveillance software for “left behind” packages
• Simultaneous data distribution
• 24/7 maintenance and technical support

The ASPP system utilizes the same technologies applied to Epsilon Systems' National Capital Region Rail Pilot Project (NCRRPP), and will be integrated with the NCRRPP system. These technologies will include intelligent video surveillance of the rail lines through the most critical areas of Amtrak facilities as designated by DHS, as well as detection of unwanted intruders including identification and distinction between unauthorized and authorized personnel.  A specialized system will be installed at the First Avenue Tunnel providing a secure perimeter around both the North and South portals of the tunnel using intelligent video surveillance.  This system will also provide automatic annunciation of alarm events, two-way public communications to the tunnel portals, temperature sensors within the tunnel, monitor train movement through the tunnel, and provide a digital log of all tunnel activity and alarm events. The ASPP system will provide around the clock monitoring of real-time streaming video, data and alarm information of the Amtrak Police Communication Center (PCC) in Philadelphia, PA.

ASPP will also fund a separate Explosive Detection Pilot. The funded pilot is for the development of a laboratory-level prototype device to address the feasibility of explosive detection in high traffic pedestrian areas. ASPP also includes an optional proposal to fully develop the explosive detection device into a deployed pilot program inside Union Station.