Prison & Correctional Security
How can a prison inspect vehicles entering a facility without unloading them?
Securing the Perimeter: Preventing Hidden Escapes and Intrusions by Vehicle
Modern prison security isn’t just about keeping people in — it’s also about keeping the wrong people out. One of the most critical vulnerabilities correctional facilities face today is the risk of inmates escaping or outsiders infiltrating by concealing themselves inside vehicles entering or exiting the premises.
Every delivery truck, service vehicle, and staff car that crosses the prison perimeter is a potential threat if not properly screened. Without advanced vehicle inspection solutions, these moving blind spots can be exploited to smuggle contraband, facilitate escapes, or enable unauthorized access — jeopardizing the safety of staff, inmates, and the surrounding community.
By sensing heartbeat vibrations, systems such as the Heartbeat Detector® can identify live individuals even when concealed, motionless, or hidden within confined spaces—making it a powerful solution for security, inspection, and screening applications.
Proven Success in Global Prison Security
For more than 25 years, the technology offered by Geospace has been used to detect hidden people coming and going from security facilities.
Effective Prison Security
Our solutions are trusted in numerous applications across the globe, including:
vehicle screening
Geospace technology uses proven analytics to detect hidden compartments with concealed individuals. This simple, fast, and trusted technology is used in more 25 countries around the world for corrections security.
realtime monitoring
Whether embedded into our robust and ruggedized land and marine nodal products or offered independently, our wide offering of geophones are used in gathering data on the subsurface.
Layered protection
Geospace sensors are vital components of data gathering tools in applications for perimeter surveillance purposes. Our sensors are packaged into various solutions which tie into command and control, VMS, access control and other tools for comprehesive layered protection.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can border crossings detect stowaways?
The Geospace Heartbeat Detector helps teams quickly and efficiently identify concealed individuals—supporting safer inspections at border crossings and informed decision-making in high-pressure environments. Using a lightweight, portable technology such as the Heartbeat Detector helps reduce the time each vehicle scan takes. Most scenarios the scan itself takes less than 60 seconds.
How long does a scan take to detect a hidden human?
In most scenarios, the Heartbeat Detector scan takes less than 60 seconds once the sensors have been placed on the vehicle. Typically, a two-person operation completes a vehicle scan faster than a K9 search.
How does Heartbeat Detection help combat human trafficking?
Human trafficking is a global crime that succeeds when people are taken against their will and forced to remain hidden. Depsite a human traffickers demand to stay hidden, a person’s heart continues to beat. The Heartbeat Detector identifies the human heartbeat regardless of how well a person is hidden. There are many cases where people were being trafficked inside semi trucks who were freed with the use of this technology.
Are any border agencies using Heartbeat Detector?
Yes. Border agencies around the world rely on the Heartbeat Detector to find hidden humans. This technology is used by Lithuania Border Police, Slovenia Border Police, Spanish National Police, Guardia Civil Spain and French Ministry of Justice, to name a few.