Secure Gate Access Technology Evaluation (S-GATE)

Honeywell Labs has integrated our unique Tri-Band Imaging (TBI) Camera and our face detection algorithms with a COTS face recognition (verification) system. This integrated imaging and recognition is used together with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to authenticate drivers entering the base. The system is designed to recognize drivers and vehicles in motion.


S-GATE is designed to:

Increase traffic flow into bases during peak hours

Decrease the manpower requirements at posts

Improve productivity of security force and government and military workers

Provide a safe operating and living environment within military installations by      detecting and deterring the intruder at the perimeter.

Using RFID alone makes a site vulnerable to impostors. With the TBI imaging provided with S-GATE, security is greater:

Provides data redundancy through 3 EM bands

Provides robust, near-IR face detection and tracking

Is invariant to light changes and the environment

Is foolproof to disguises

Provides real-time performance

A Secure Gate Access Technology Evaluation (S-GATE) demonstration is being conducted at MARFORPAC Marine Base Camp H. M. Smith in Hawaii. The U. S. Marine Corps S-GATE project will demonstrate the effectiveness of FV biometrics and RFID to enhance driver and vehicle identification while maintaining a smooth traffic flow through base access points. The demonstration consists of a series of laboratory and field trials that test the effects of variable vehicle motion, environmental conditions, and human characteristics on the system.

S-GATE will make it possible to allow or reject, in real time, entry onto the station, based on verification of the driver's RFID, the vehicle RFID, and driver's face image. The system performance is tuned to 0% false acceptance rate, while minimizing the fault rejection rate.

A selected sample of personnel who work on the base will be enrolled in the system database and assigned unique RFID tags to identify the driver and vehicle.

As the vehicle approaches the test gate, an infrared beam will trigger the RF coil and read the vehicle and driver RFID tags. The RFID serves to look up in a computer database and retrieve the pre-stored picture of the owner of that RF tag and vehicle.

Then the TBI camera captures and tracks the face of the driver while the vehicle is in motion, scans the driver's face and transmits the live face image to the system, which then determines whether this image matches the one pre-stored in the computer database. For the demonstration, green and red signal lights notify both the driver and MPO whether the individual is accepted or rejected. A green light indicates that the database picture from the RFID tag matched the facial scan and the vehicle is allowed to proceed through the gate. If the red light is activated, the driver will be rejected and directed back to the Main Gate for conventional check in. A post-verification vehicle RF identification is performed when the vehicle travels over the RF loop in front of the sentry or, for rejected vehicles, when the vehicle exits. This measure will prevent any chance of piggy backing. In addition it will also prevent a driver, who has been rejected and does not follow the exit rules from attempting to go through the sentry gate. For the test, in-ground barriers will not be installed; however, that capability will be available should the system become permanent.

The benefit of Secure Gate Access Technology Evaluation is a significant enhancement of traffic flow and a vast reduction of manpower, thereby reducing overall base costs.