Welcome to visit our website. We are the maunufacture of innovative Fiber Optic Security & Safety Systems based on Optical Radar technology. As its inventor and chief executive officer of Fibertron, I would like to invite you to the exciting business opportunity in connection with our two inventions Fiber Optic Mesh Intrusion Detection System and Fiber Optic Structural Safety Monitoring System and to present you a general overview of its history.
□ Fiber Optic Mesh Intrusion Detection System
Let me start with my personal history. I graduated from Korea Military Academy in 1969 and served as a security guard officer along the demilitarized zone (DMZ), border with the North Korea for two years.
I majored in physics for eight years with a B.S. degree at Seoul National University, M.S. degree at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, and Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1981.
Upon graduation from the University of Southern California, I joined the Agency for Defense Development, an agency belonging to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Korean, and have successfully invented the Fiber Optic Intrusion Detection System in 1982. Through repeated field tests at the DMZ for over fifteen years until my retirement as colonel of the Korean Army in 1995, I have been able to improve the system by incorporating the latest technological innovation in Optical Radar technology.
In early 1996 under the Technical Business Incubating Program of the Korean Government, I together with key engineers in computer engineering & opto-electronics, founded Potential Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd. in Korea, later changed its name to Fibertron Co., Ltd. in 2000.
Fiber Optic Mesh (FOM) Intrusion Detection System is based and operates on Optical Radar Technology. The system injects Infrared Laser pulses into FOM and detects any intrusion attempt by way of optical echoes caused either by cutting or extraordinary force exerted on the FOM and that it is capable of locating the intrusion spot within a margin of error ±15 meter on the monitor with audible & visible alarm at a main security control center..
The FOM Intrusion Detection system was commercialized in Korea and overseas as a trademark of FOM Guard until 2006. Since early 2007, after Fibertron made a major upgrade in its quality and lowered its prices, the trademark was re-named as FOM Sensor. Often times both trademarks are being used interchangeably.
In 1997, the system was thoroughly tested and evaluated and officially certified as “NT Certificate” by the Korea Testing Institute confirming technological superiority in its performance over any other existing products available on the market..
One month after the 911 incidence in 2001, US Department of Defense sent the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) team to Korea to inspect and test the FOMGuard system which was operating at the Incheon International Airport and Incheon LNG Reservoir and FCT team witnessed flawless detection capability with accuracy of the location within l meter. The team was able to confirm the fact that the system makes no nuisance alarm and has negligible maintenance records. Their brief comment was that it was “a marvelous system”.
FOMGuard was picked in a contract for a FCT testing and successfully passed the three comprehensive tests at the US Eglin Air Force Base in October 2004. In August 2003, the high ranking Military and Police specialists of Singapore also visited Korea to inspect FOMGuard and left a comment on it as “the best in the world”.
Before 2001, Fibertron installed FOMGuards at a number of the domestic facilities in Korea such as the Incheon Int’l Airport, Incheon, LNG Reservoir, Gohri Nuclear Power Plant, YTN Communication Tower, ONSE Satellite Terminal, and Pusan Container Terminal.
From 2001untill late 2007, Fibertron installed FOMGuard to all nuclear power plants and thermal power plants, Oil Reservoir, the VIP Complex of Seoul City, and other industrial installations in Korea, and started expansion of its business overseas; Eglin U.S. Air Force Base, Florida, four major energy facilities including three sensitive energy plants in Japan, two Singapore Government facilities, ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Foreign Affair in Kuwait, and the Kuwait Consulate in Pakistan. You may refer to AramcoFOM.ppt (16.8MB) for the operating system at Aramco in Saudi.
It has come to my attention that there is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the ineffective sensors among their users such as FO vibration sensors, Guardwire, E-Fields and IR sensors which represent the overwhelming majority of the current perimeter intrusion detection system. Because those systems have their intrinsic drawbacks characterized by numerous nuisance alarms, 100 to -1,000 times a day per km. And I was greatly excited to have found out that they are seriously looking for a more intelligent system like FOMGuard, the only sytem capable of differentiating a real threat from false alarms. The outstanding performance of FOMGuard has been evidenced so far by the nine official performance certificates Fibertron received on it from the Korean governmental agencies and various foreign governments and government sponsored institutes.
Let me introduce a real report from Singapore. FOMGuard system installed and started to operate at Singapore Military Site fence 1.15km since FEB 2005and maintained the proposed performance with no false alarm, no failure, no problem, even no complaint except two real alarms over three years until January 2008. The system alarmed twice only for three years. One by a monkey climbing over and another by an eagle hitting. Both triggered alarm and locate accurately the spot and had the interfaced CCTV cameras turned and caught view of the animals before the operator without missing. You may refer to FOMatSingapore.ppt(4.57MB) for the operating systems in Singapore.
In 2007, Fibertron successfully put out a new upgraded version, Woven FOM which is much lighter in weight and less expensive compared to the previous FOM. The quality of Woven FOM has been thoroughly tested by the Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) and has officially certified that it worked perfect as stated in the KTL Report #08-2374-36 on July 7, 2008. Impeccable performance records of Woven FOM have been eloquently demonstrated on the 8km fence around the Agency for Defence Development (ADD), a Korean military think tank. To differentiate it from the previous FOMGuard, Fibertron renamed the upgraded Woven FOM as ‘FOM Sensor’ in 2007. You may refer to FOMatADD.ppt (13.6MB) for the operating system at ADD.
Now I can proudly say that FOM Sensor offers a unique and total solution that is capable of providing 100% flawless detection of intrusion attempts of any kind, from underground to climbing over fences, and it works beautifully regardless of terrain conditions and fence types without generating false alarms.
FOM Sensor may appear more expensive than other cable sensors mounted on fences such as Guardwire, FiberSenSys, FFT, Micro-point etc. But I want to emphasize that price should be compared objectively from a cost-benefit perspective. . In this regard, I claim with confidence that FOM Sensor is the only system that offers the most reliable protection for its users at the lowest costs when the cost of initial installation as well as expenses of maintenance for its life time are taken into account.
In this respect, I say with confidence that it is an ideal and perfect solution to the security problem of important civilian and military facilities such as civilian airports, air force bases, missile sites, nuclear power plants, gas/oil/water reservoirs, electric power plants, military headquarters, military sites, palaces, jewelry factories, semiconductor plants, jails, major governmental facilities, national borders, private residential areas etc. against highly sophisticated intruders such as spies, terrorists or guerrillas.
I have observed that what our clients need is a total security solution of Fence Intrusion Sensors interfaced with CCTV which are reliable and can be maintained inexpensively. The cable sensors by our competitors are, in my personal opinion, of little or no practical value due to severe nuisance alarms, intrinsic inaccuracy in detecting actual intrusions, let alone intrusion point, and high maintenance costs, etc. Usually staffs at monitoring stations tend to leave the Cable Sensors in a switched off position at night or ignored soon after the system starts to put in operation.
The fence by its own nature is very vulnerable to intruders trying to cut through or to climb over it in a matter of a couple of minutes. Consequently, the current intrusion sensors with CCTV cameras by our competitors require illumination by security lightings at night consuming tremendous amount of electricity resulting in high maintenance cost, while our FOM Sensors do not need electricity for illumination purposes during the normal situations. For a detailed analysis, you may click and download PIDSrvw.ppt (44.7MB) which provides a close review and comparison among about forty (40) Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS) appeared worldwide.
The FOM Sensor system was basically designed on a skin and eye concept. Skin by its own nature is able to pinpoint the intrusion spot accurately and once the spot is identified, the camera interfaced with FOM Sensor is triggered and activated to catch the intruder sight that will pop up on the main monitor at a security control center. The system was successfully able to reduce the number of camera needed by over fifty percent through increasing the distance between cameras from 200 meters to 500 meters without compromising its functions. For detailed comparison, you may click and download FOMvsVib.ppt (1.03MB) which provides detailed analysis of about twenty (20) fence mount cable sensors in comparison with FOM Sensor.
Without depending on security lightings in case of FOM Sensor, the illuminators equipped with cameras can remain in a turned off position during normal situations consuming no electricity, and turn on light and use electricity only when a real intrusion attempt is being made. So the systems works well with less security lightings that will also contribute to less energy consumption. Simply put, it saves energy and environment while performing its duty of protecting people. In conclusion, the merit of our competitors’ low cost cable sensor in the initial stage is more than offset by the extra cost involved in installing a greater number of CCTV cameras needed and by the fact that it depends more on security lightings that consume electricity.
□ Fiber Optic Structural Safety Monitoring System (FOSNerve)
Human body was created with muscle, bone and nerve. However man made large structures such as bridge, tunnel, tower, rail road, cutaway surface or big building are built with steel and cement missing nerve and require additional safety measure.
Fibertron developed Fiber Optic Structural Safety Monitoring System (called ‘FOSNerve’) utilizing Advanced Optical Radar technology.
In FOSNerve, FOSC (Fiber Optic Sensor Cable) is attached to critical parts of a structure such as bridge, tunnel, tower, rail road, cutaway surface or big buildings and receives Infrared Laser Pulses to generate abnormal Optical Echoes in case emergency. The system is capable to not only alarm and locate the Optical Echoes but also measure the strength of Optical Echoes so as to provide the unique reliable permanent safety monitoring measure overcoming the limitation of most of current Electrical measuring devices such as tilt meter, water level meter, accelerometer, displacement gauge, temperature gauge etc. which intrinsically belong to point sensor category and are vulnerable to environment effects.
I would like express my appreciation for allowing me to offer this opportunity to introduce Fibertron and myself to those who may be interested in this exciting business opportunity in connection with the state-of-arts technology on perimeter security and structural safety monitoring. All staffs of Fibertron are ready to receive you wholeheartedly, do the demonstration of our indoor demo kit, arrange tours to operating sites in Korea and other countries, and provide the technical data and reports on it by the major institutes and governmental agencies of the world.
Sincerely
Youn Bae, Ph.D.
CEO & President of Fibertron Co., Ltd.
Mobile +82 11 783 4681
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