A high-throughput, full-vehicle plaza scanning solution for busy multi-lane checkpoints

The VACIS Plaza XPL system is a unique, high-throughput, plaza-style inspection solution for critical high-volume border crossings. Its unique scanning technology scans entire passenger cars, light trucks and vans, and small buses from bumper to bumper and roof to tires (including occupants) to help security personnel at multi-lane border checkpoints search for weapons, explosives, drugs, undeclared goods, and other suspicious items.

The system’s unobtrusive overhead scanning configuration, flush-with-the- roadway detectors, and integrated traffic regulation devices facilitate efficient movement of traffic through the system. Meanwhile, the system’s low-dose X-ray scanning and material discrimination reveal hidden weapons and other threats while highlighting explosives, drugs, and other organic materials.

The system even includes powerful tablet computer-based tools to simplify secondary inspection procedures, and its networked communication architecture supports image analysis at the border crossing or hundreds of miles away at a centralized facility for added security.

POWERFUL SCANNING CAPABILITIES

The VACIS Plaza XPL system’s innovative dual-energy X-ray technology highlights organic material such as explosives and drugs in color. The system’s top-down scanning angle is ideal for passenger cars, vans, and other light vehicles. The system integrates the scan image, license number, video image, and other information in the system database.

The operator workstation enables users to operate the system and analyze scan images, all in one easy-to-use screen. The system provides a variety of functions for analyzing and annotating scan images. A unique Easy Match feature automatically compares the current scan with prior scans of the same vehicle and highlights the differences to help inspectors spot new objects. To enhance the efficiency and integrity of the inspection process, images can be analyzed at central locations without any identifying information.

FOCUS ON SAFETY

The VACIS Plaza XPL system’s low radiation dose and other features comply with the ANSI N43.17-2009 standard for general purpose security screening of people using X-rays.

Leidos is a world leader in nonintrusive inspection technology, with hundreds of systems installed for government and commercial clients around the world. Every VACIS system is available with our dedicated installation, training, maintenance, and technical support.

BENEFITS

• Quickly and reliably scans almost any passenger car, SUV, van, small truck, or other light vehicle.
• Scans hundreds of vehicles per hour.
• Operates with minimal or no impact on the normal flow of checkpoint traffic.
• Provides inspection images wirelessly to handheld tablet computers to assist secondary inspection procedures.
• Standard 2-lane system can be scaled to support multi-lane checkpoints of almost any size.

CAPABILITIES

• Scans bumper to bumper and roof to pavement
• Vehicles drive through without stopping
• Scans in the normal flow of checkpoint traffic
• Complies with ANSI N43.17
• Detailed images reveal hidden weapons and other threats
• Dual-energy X-ray highlights explosives, drugs, and other organic material in color
• Easy Match feature highlights new objects in known vehicles
• Small footprint allows use in standard traffic lanes
• Supports remote, centralized image analysis – nearby or hundreds of miles away