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Forced Ignition - Letters Of Recommendation

The Forced Ignition system is recommended by a number of organisations worldwide and is used by a number of law enforcement agencies.

Below is a letter of recommendation for Forced Ignition provided by United States Senator Dean Kirby, and the evaluation of the Forced Ignition system by the US Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization Advisory Council.

Click on the image above to view a letter of recommendation for the Forced Ignition system provided by US Senator Dean Kirby

Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization Advisory Council, 13-14 December 2004

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

http://www.oletc.org/

This evaluation was received by Forced Ignition in December of 04. The advisory Council's remarks are in standard text, Forced Ignition's answers to their questions are in bold text.

This summary details the council’s evaluation for the following technology:

Forced Ignition – Forced Ignition is an automatic disabling and enabling system for patrol and first responder vehicles. The system functions as an anti-theft and security device allowing the vehicle to operate only when the authorized driver is within the preset perimeter of the unit.

CLOSED FORUM

● Council members concur that there is tremendous value in this product. The council is very impressed with this technology – it is a great design and well thought out; it provides a blanket solution to a nationwide issue.

● The demonstration was outstanding and is what “sold the product,” according to council members.

● Council members favor this technology’s ease of use, versatility, and minimal involvement on behalf of officers. The options involving control of the light bar, radio, and locks are assets as well ...

● The present affiliation with a major law enforcement agency (xxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxxx< name marked out for security reasons) lends excellent backing to this product.

● Other areas to consider for application of this product include the taxi cab, fire department / ambulance, limo, and construction industries.

● The council’s major concern with this technology is the pager, which runs on batteries.

The pager must always be fully charged, or the officer must carry a spare; also, what happens when a pager is lost?

Response from Forced Ignition: The Reflector (pager) is equipped with very low power circuitry. As a precautionary feature it is equipped with a low power alarm to warn of a low battery with at least three days warning before absolute battery loss. The warning is a visual LED blink atop the reflectors infrared faceplate. With a low battery alert and a three-day advanced warning we feel that the Forced Ignition System has shown its dedication and sincere approach to safety and reliability of its product.

What happens if the reflector is lost? Unlike keys, the Forced Ignition System has the ability to be programmed over and over again without compromising the encryption of the actual coding of the system. In short, the management personnel have the ability to reprogram a spare or existing reflector to operate any vehicle within his or her fleet. This operation is as simple as a mag loop-programming pass with a wand to the reflector, which takes about two minutes to complete. The management can also change the ID codes within the matched system of the lost reflector to disallow use of the lost reflector. With the Forced Ignition program and hardware installed in a laptop or PDA, the lost reflector (in the on position) can be located within approximately 50 feet.

● IP/patent issues for this technology must be impeccably researched.

Response from Forced Ignition: Patent applications have been filed and published with the U.S. Patent Office along with foreign protection.

● Security issues should be addressed as well. What is the encryption sequence and how powerful is it? Can the frequency be duplicated? Could an entire patrol division be shut down with a replicated shutdown signal? Answers to these issues must be made clear.

Response from Forced Ignition: A 128-bit encryption algorithm protects Forced Ignition’s coding. Just as we did with the battery protection, Forced Ignition went several steps further to protect the systems integrity. Redundancy has been somewhat over pressed within this system to include multiple layers of protection including: 1. The 128-bit encryption, 2. A random sequence of coding, 3. A very small signal-- less than 15ms. This alone makes finding the signal extremely difficult and, with the random sequence, a person would have to break the coding and put it to use within 3 to 5 seconds before the next signal is released.

● The consumer market for this technology should be explored. At least one council member pointed out that in her district, fifty percent of all car thefts occur while a vehicle is warming up in the driveway or at the curb in front of a residence.

● As such, this product should be marketed in the North and the South, where cars are left running all the time because of extreme cold and heat conditions.

● The consumer market could be tapped by promoting that police agencies back this technology for their own fleets.

● Council members expect that this product would do just as well in the consumer market as it would in the law enforcement market.

● The presentation was excellent, especially, as mentioned above, the actual demonstration.

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created on 2007-10-07 22:20:31 by adamr