HPC - People Screening: Weapon & Explosive Detection Product Report - 2003

How to Find the Right Product

More than 90 systems and technologies, offered by more than 30 different vendors compete for your attention and your budget.

The decision is not going to be simple. A metal detection gate is not an expensive product. It will probably cost you upwards of $10,000 dollars. But the real expense in weapon detection is in the personnel. Operators may cost you upwards of $500,000 dollars per year.

That is the kind of insight, among many others, that the 2003 People Screening: Weapon & Explosive Detection - Product Report gives you.

Featured in this Report

The 2003 People Screening: Weapon & Explosive Detection - Product Report covers the following products/technologies:

• Hand-Held Metal Detectors
• Walk-Through Metal Detectors
• Trace/Vapor Explosives Detectors (Hand-Held, Desktop, Mobile and Stationary Systems
• Walk-Through Explosives Detectors
• Bulk Explosives Detectors

For each technology, the report describes existing vendors and products, and provides a much needed analysis of the crucial operational and ownership aspects such as:

• Cost of transaction - The cost of screening a single person
• Cost of ownership - The cost of owning the product and its service
• Cost of maintenance - The cost of keeping the product running
• Cost of personnel - The cost of operating the product, including training.

The Homeland Security Research team of experts and analysts worked for a year to give you a clear, usable and relevant comparison of available technologies prices [including U.S. government prices] and products. The report explains available technologies clearly and concisely, presents product specifications in an easy-to-compare table format, and accompanies every subject with a no-nonsense discussion covering every important financial and operational aspect.

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This report is designed to give Security planners, CSOs, purchasing personnel, public, and private sector executives a clear picture of the performance, economics and operational aspects of each available system and technology.