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Portable cellphone detection

The SentryHound Cellular Telephone Detection Portal introduced by CellDetect in South Africa in 2014 is placed at the entrances and doors of correctional facilities or government buildings where cellular telephones and other communication devices are not allowed or prohibited.

Correctional officers, inmates, visitors and other people who need to access the facility where the SentryHound is deployed have to walk through the SentryHound portal and stand for one second on the pressure sensitive mat. The SentryHound immediately detects any hidden cellular telephones or parts on the individual, whether the phone is on or off. It will also detect the cellular telephone when the battery is removed.

Cellular telephones and other ferromagnetic material trigger the SentryHound’s sensors. It will also detect guns and knives. A SentryHound contains twelve independent, ultra-sensitive zones between two poles. It will detect cellular telephones from head to toe and even the location of the hidden item with glowing LED alerts and sirens. These LED zones “lock” onto any mobile phone, tablet or laptop hidden in a pocket, bag or purse. The rugged pressure mat switch ensures that only suspects passing through the sensors will be instantly scanned by SentryHound.

The SentryHound recently detected a cell phone in the stomach of a prisoner at a Western Cape correctional facility.

The SentryHound differs from expensive and obtrusive walk-through metal detectors because it only targets cellular phones found in pockets, backpacks, purses, etc. while ignoring common metallic items like pocket change, belt buckles and keys that trigger normal metal detectors. This makes for streamlined security scans focusing on illegal or unauthorised cellular telephones being transported through security checkpoints. The SentryHound is portable and simple enough to be transported anywhere and assembled and operational in minutes.

CellDetect specialises exclusively in providing a complete strategy, equipment and solutions to correctional and custodial facilities, to those in charge of government building to counter the threat of cellular telephones and other communication devices.

For more information contact Danie Germishuizen, CellDetect, +27 (0)12 665 3109, www.celldetect.co.za

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