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Surveillance – from incident to Action
IBD
Intelligent behaviour detector
Incident
Action
Software application for finding anomalies
in observed behaviour
patterns

Surveillance – from incident to Action
intelligent Behaviour Detector – IBD
Hey – what is
happening
over there?
In your surveillance environment, an observed complex behaviour might
not be fully comprehended by your operators. Small or complex changes
in a situation may pass unnoticed. Different operators tend to interpret
situations differently. The results? At best, inconsistencies in your situational
awareness. Your system needs intelligence.
Saab’s IBD – Intelligent Behaviour
Detector – is your decision-support
application for anomaly detection. It
operates 24/7, fully automated and
autonomously, pinpointing irregularities in
the observed panorama using capabilities
built from rules and algorithms, based
upon state-of-the-art expert knowledge
on behaviour patterns together with your
customised threat analysis. Capabilities
are configurable to address your specific
application.
IBD is part of Saab’s product line of
intelligent sensor systems supporting
surveillance – from incident to action.
IBD is a software-based surveillance product for detecting the abnormal in normal situations. Today’s interconnected sensor systems
provide huge amounts of information, which can cause operators to reach the boundaries of their cognitive capacity and begin to miss
important events. IBD will add regularity to your surveillance. The product is built upon JAVA and will work with input from different track
information sources, such as AIS, GPS, CCTV and radar sensors but also from other types of information.
Saab’s IBD highlights threats,
irregularities, inconsistencies, and
anomalies in available information.
The system combines knowledge-based
detection with data-driven anomaly
detection. This enables the system to find
situations that can be defined beforehand as
well as new, previously unknown situations
that in some way deviate from the normal
situations. IBD learns.
By using information fusion and anomaly
detection methods along with innovative
methods of tracking information rather
than sequences of positions, IBD facilitates
the early detection of threats.
IBD can also be used to make consistency
checks, increase information fidelity, or
perform higher-level information fusion to
obtain new information of greater value.
The platform-independent IBD can be
run either as a stand-alone system or an
integrated part of your current surveillance
system.

Surveillance – from incident to Action
intelligent Behaviour Detector – IBD
When your haystack is enormously large and
constantly moving, you will need support
to find an occasional needle. Especially if
you don’t know what it looks like. And if you
don’t even know it is there.
There are many reasons for automating
anomaly detection. The opposite – relying
on the operators’ manual detection of
anything unusual – means building a great
deal of arbitrariness into your surveillance
system. Manual observation of output from
surveillance cameras, radar sensors and
other information flows tends to exhaust
the operators’ observational skills, resulting
in deteriorating focus on the task at hand.
This is especially true if the periods of
normality are long and continuous.
To ensure the best available situational
awareness in surveillance tasks, operators
must therefore be supported in detecting
anomalous behaviours.
IBD allows operators to transform
knowledge of your specific normality and
your specific threat analysis into rules, in
order to detect deviations worth taking a
closer look at. The product will also learn
from previous situations.
IBD will alert operators to any anomalous
incident. What is more important
however is that it will work silently in the
background as long as everything remains
normal – by your definition. This means
that your operators are free to focus on
other tasks, more suitable for the human
way of working.
IBD helps you, as a decision maker, to
focus more on threat analysis than on the
abnormality of observed situations.
The inclusion of Saab IBD in any
surveillance system will help to
simplify and make the demanding
task of surveillance more efficient
and reliable.
IBD is domain-independent and will tirelessly
monitor the surveyed situation in question
until something “abnormal” happens, such
as a ship taking an unusual route when
approaching port, people loitering in different
areas at unusual times, a car parked for a
suspiciously long time in a parking lot, the
same identification card used at different
locations within an impossible time frame …
you name it.

SMW IBD product sheet – eng – version 1
General specifications
IBD is surveillance software for identifying anomalies in
observed situations.
Hardware
requirements:
Software
requirements:
Interface:
Computer platform X86.
IBD is a software application built
upon JAVA. It operates on Windows
XP, but has abilities to run in other
JAVA-compatible environments.
JRE 1.6 is required.
Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) controller,
communication over standard UDP/
TCP/IP protocol using an IBD-specific
protocol. Can also be accessed by
IBD Customer API.
Disclaimer
Specifications subject to change without notice.
IBD is Saab’s concept for behaviour and anomaly detection in Saab’s Intelligent Sensor suite intended for Surveillance – from
incident to action, a collective name for intelligent surveillance equipment from Saab. The product line consists of sensors, software
and complete concepts for typical surveillance applications.
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