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Individual Chemical Alarm System (ICAS)
MARINE CORPS SYSTEMS COMMAND
Smiths Detection - Pasadena developed a wearable personal protective badge that continuously monitors the atmosphere for chemical threats. The badge utilizes a low cost and low power nanocomposite sensor array to detect the presence of chemical threats in the air. The sensor array is rugged and the response is repeatable enabling multiple measurements. The sensor array is highly sensitive to chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. The badge produces audible and visual alarms when a chemical threat is detected. The Marine Corps anticipates using this technology for personal protection.
Applications
- Military and Commercial Significance:
- Military: Personal protection; integration into
- existing systems - helmets, masks, sensor
- suites
- Homeland Security: Coast Guard, Customs,
- Border Patrol
- First responders: Police, Fire and HazMat Teams
- Industrial: individual protection for hazardous
- chemicals; leak monitoring
- Smiths Detection - Pasadena's badge monitors,
- detects and notifies individual wearers of exposure
- to a chemical threat. No user interaction is required.
- This provides each individual with early warning and
- a margin of safety to don protective gear. Data is
- logged continuously for validation and verification
- and can be downloaded to a computer for archiving
- and analysis.
- The badge is a true dual use technology and is
- ideally suited for protecting personnel in a variety
- of security and industrial settings. Sensor arrays
- can be manufactured for specific purposes and
- interchanged and chemical libraries updated for
- new or expanded threats. Future versions of the
- badge for civilian use will include wireless
- networking to report and record exposures in
- real-time over LAN/WAN systems.
Provenance
- Original
- https://dodtechmatch.com/dod/successstories/view.aspx?id=60089
- Archived copy
- Wayback Machine snapshot
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