User's Manual

6 Ultra Wideband Perimeter Surveillance Pole / User’s Manual
The end user provided server should feature multicore processors and an operator terminal
consisting of a keyboard and monitor. Such a server is needed to support the system’s
processing and interface operations. The operator terminal is for the purpose of configuring,
controlling, and maintaining the system. Figure 4 illustrates a typical server.
Figure 4: Typical end user provided server
The network consists of a number of Ethernet hubs and cables to provide data
communication between the UWB Modules within the poles and the server.
1.2 System Theory of Operation
1.2.1 Software Architecture & Data Flow
Figure 5 shows the data flow on the network between the poles and the server, internal to the
server, and external to the server. The P400s send TCP/IP packets containing radar scan data
to the server where they are processed to detect, track, and classify targets. The server also
sends TCP/IP packets to the poles as needed. Within the server, the outputs of the processing
are TCP/IP packets containing tracks, classifications, configuration, status, notifications, and
alarms. These are provided to the interface, which generates data and signals for
consumption by an external user of the data. The TCP/IP packets allow this data to be
processed or converted by another application, even one running at a separate location,
without the need to modify the processing application itself.