DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION, ISOLATION:
BUILDING SENTRY ONE™

SMART AND FAST
TABS’ mitigation methodology begins with Building Protection Systems International (BPSI)’s Building Sentry One™(BSO).  BSO delivers complimentary detection and control capabilities to any and all building control systems, coupling an intelligent sensor array onto the HVAC system that detects changes to the chemical and radiological of a site, comparing baseline readings against a pre-defined threat compendium, and rechecking positive hits to the list in milliseconds. Upon detection confirmation, signals are sent to the building control system, shutting down the HVAC in seconds and triggering the abatement process.

ACCURATE
Building Sentry One™ utilizes the same sensor technology chosen by the military, law enforcement and regulatory agencies to protect sensitive mission critical installations, transportation hubs, public spaces and elected officials. Reliable under duress, these sensors are extremely sensitive to changes in the environment and represent best-in-class technology. Proprietary firmware and software eliminates the preponderance of false positives, bringing confidence levels above 99%. Further, once initially calibrated at installation, the sensors continuously self-calibrate and temperature adjust to insure accuracy and long life.

HARD TO KILL
To meet exacting real-world demands and site specific criteria, Building Sentry One™ operates on a wide array of communications protocols, affording redundant communication with the device when required. The “handshake” design alerts the BSO when communication between the main component and a sensor array is dropped, so that in the event of a cut cable or other contact disruption, BSO notifies TABS of changes to the system, and continues its job under a secondary redundant communications mode.

SCIENTIFIC CREDENCE AND ACCEPTANCE
In a scientific field measured in decades, the collective experience for the Building Sentry One ™ development team runs to centuries. Building Sentry One™ was designed under the guidance of America’s leading chemical, nuclear and defense scientists whose deep familiarity with federal & military standards of operations has engendered BSO’s  full integration with the chemical and radiological detection algorithms supported by Los Alamos National Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Lab protocols. This compliance reduces the likelihood of false positives to a negligible figure, while ensuring that positive hits receive the proper first-responder deployment. This compliance, along with BSO’s compliance to the highest technical, scientific and security standards, earned Building Sentry One™ designationby the Department of Homeland Security as a Qualified Anti Terrorism Technology under the SAFETY Act.

THE SUPPORT ANTI-TERRORISM BY FOSTERING EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY (SAFETY) ACT
In 2002, Congress passed legislation empowering the Department of Homeland Security to create strategies to protect the nation’s citizens, infrastructure and economy.  The body of legislation provides for rigorous scientific testing and investigation of new technologies by DHS prior to the agency’s authorization of the technology as “approved”.  In June 2008, Building Sentry One™ received the Department of Homeland Security Certificate of Safety Act Designation as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT), representative of a thorough federal vetting of Building Sentry One™ as a viable anti-terrorism solution.
Why is this important? The SAFETY Act’s goal of rapid adoption of protective technologies by the private sector is not so much enforced as it is incentivized: it provides for the limiting of liability for death and property loss when designated technologies are utilized; thus, implementation of the Building Sentry One™ delivers shelter from liability while in operation.

ABATEMENT: Beth-El Filtration Systems
Once the threat to life is mitigated, thoughts turn to protection of property, and with good cause: corrosion, permeation and contamination are fast acting phenomenon; left to fester, damage from Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) and radioactive material can increase exponentially, rendering property valueless in relatively short order.  In all but a few of the major toxic release events, incident sites were forced to close, contaminated beyond recovery, some ending up on Superfund lists, evidence that festering delay is a high probability end result. Often,  the time to abatement stands in direct relation to a court's willingness to assign responsibility.

To avoid the additional abatement necessitated by delay, TABS systems can begin to trap contaminants upon detection.  High density, military grade HEPA FiltAir™ filtration manufactured by the Beth-El Zikhron Yaaqov Industries Ltd (Israel)—a leading supplier to NATO, the Israeli government and the U.S. military— capture over 300 of the Department of Homeland Security's “Chemicals of Interest” and all radiologically charged particulate. By cleaning contaminants from the air in a sealed section of ductwork, and by creating the necessary volume of clean air to create a negatively pressurized building space, lessens the spread of contaminants through the building, and provides abatement teams  a manageable scenario from which to assess clean-up efforts.

HOW IT WORKS:
The TABS Chemical & Radiological Event Mitigation Platform