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QUESTIONS
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What
are some of the key operational features of the Wyatt Lorenz System
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How will the Wyatt-Lorenz system
address concerns regarding false alarms ?
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Have any technology reviews been completed by the US Government ?
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How will an area that has
suffered from a biochemical attack be cleaned up safely for future use ?
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOVE
Key Features
Also see
System Overview (click here) for a detailed description.
The immediate
response of a biological threat detection system (BTDS) requires
that that several key elements associated with such an attack be
monitored simultaneously. The mere detection of bacterial spores,
for example, bears little significance without the contemporaneous
occurrence of a range of other
phenomena. The W-L system is comprised of a distributed array of
detector stations, each capable of classifying aerosol particulates
in its neighborhood and interacting with the other detector stations
spanning the areas to be protected.
Key to the detection of a bio-threat is the
ability to track its progress, predict to what regions it is moving,
and establish safe evacuation routes for the affected population to
follow. The W-L systems are designed with such a requirement in
mind. In addition, pinpointing of the source and location of the
release must be determined as rapidly as possible to correlate with
the usual on site monitoring cameras to aid in the capture of the
individual(s) responsible for the attack.
Finally, each DS must be capable of detecting
and retaining exemplars of the bio-threat agents as they pass
through. These may be analyzed later (or simultaneously by on-board
smart chips, if so configured) for epidemiological and therapeutic
responses.
False Positive rate unequalled
Because the Wyatt-Lorenz distributed system identifies a
bioterrorist intrusion using several independent classifiers, the
system is expected to have an extremely low false positive alarm
rate. Each Detector Station (DS) provides its own analysis which is
then compared and correlated to those generated by the other DS
units in the net. Combining the analysis of only two such DS will
result in an average false positive rate within the range of 10-7
to 10-9.
Since particles identified as probable agents (i. e. with
a probability greater than 90%) are collected immediately by each
classifying DS, subsequent “smart chip” or similar laboratory
processing of several of these collected particles will further
reduce the false positive rate to well below 10-15
providing, thereby, an unequalled screening accuracy. Equally
important is the expected false negative alarm rate expected
to be well below 10-8.
Technology Reviews
Also (click here) to see detailed
comments
The Federal Government, through the Department of
Defense, has provided debriefings associated with the review process of some recent proposals by the Company containing
unprejudiced and unprecedented comments on the technology and its planned implementation by Wyatt-Lorenz.
Department of Defense reviewers
included many comments on the technology proposed.
Clean up and remediation
In addition to the Immediate Warning System, W-L will
manufacture and sell tools derived from these systems to be used for
remediation and forensic purposes following bioweapon attacks or
industrial accidents involving bioagents. Once the fact that
an attack has occurred is verified, a portable, handheld detection
unit can be used to locate the exact site of the attack. The
unit can be programmed to recognize particles of interest and issue
an alarm immediately upon detecting such particles. The
location believed to harbor the particle can be queried by loosening
particles either ultrasonically or with an air burst, and the device
can then be used to analyze the particles and issue an alarm if they
match the pre-programmed profile. Clean-up of the area can be
monitored in a similar fashion, as well. In addition, this
apparatus will collect the particles of interest and store them for
future examination and/or destruction.
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