Border protection demands real-time threat detection and response across vast, often remote territories. While traditional fixed surveillance infrastructure remains important, it presents significant vulnerabilities that smugglers and traffickers readily exploit:
- Limited Coverage – Static systems create predictable blind spots
- Fixed Locations – Criminals can plan routes to avoid detection
- High Maintenance Costs – Fixed installations require costly upkeep and are vulnerable to tampering
This reality has driven the development of mobile surveillance vehicles—agile, technology-equipped units that provide flexible monitoring capabilities across previously vulnerable border regions.
The Visibility Challenge: How Weather Conditions Create Security Gaps
A persistent challenge in border security is compromised visibility during adverse weather conditions. Fog, heavy rain, dust storms, and low-light scenarios create opportunities for illegal border crossings:
- Deliberate Exploitation – Smugglers intentionally time operations during poor visibility conditions
- Reduced Surveillance Effectiveness – Standard cameras lose detection range, clarity, and depth perception
- Delayed Response Times – Border security often detects threats too late to prevent breaches
- Thermal Camera Limitations – While thermal imaging detects heat signatures, it lacks the detail necessary for positive identification of vehicles, individuals, or contraband
These visibility gaps represent a significant vulnerability in border protection—one that criminals consistently exploit.
SightBooster: Improving Visibility for Border Security
The effectiveness of surveillance systems is often compromised during adverse weather conditions. ThexoVision’s SightBooster technology addresses this challenge with practical visibility enhancement.
How SightBooster Transforms Border Surveillance
SightBooster is a software solution that processes and enhances camera feeds in real time, revealing details that would otherwise be obscured:
- Enhanced Image Clarity – Officers can see more clearly through fog, smoke, or heavy precipitation
- Extended Surveillance Range – Threats can be spotted and tracked from distances of 1km or more, reducing security gaps
- Software-Based Solution – Integrates with existing camera systems without requiring expensive hardware upgrades
- Versatile Application – Effective across multiple visibility challenges including fog, haze, smog, dust, rain, snow, low-light conditions, and even underwater scenarios
A Thoughtful Approach to Image Enhancement
Unlike many modern technologies, SightBooster’s core functionality deliberately avoids AI in producing clarified imagery. As ThexoVision’s CTO Ramon Hegedus explains: “When dealing with surveillance or border security, we don’t want to introduce non-existing objects or details into the processed image.” This approach ensures that what officers see is genuine—critical for high-stakes security decisions.
PRESIDIAN®: Advanced Mobile Surveillance Technology
DJ Byers Security Solutions’ PRESIDIAN® represents a significant advancement in mobile surveillance technology. This fully mobile intelligent surveillance system can be deployed individually or as part of a networked security solution through integrated secure Satcoms.
Key Imaging and Surveillance Capabilities
The PRESIDIAN® combines multiple advanced detection technologies in a single mobile platform:
- Thermal Imaging Camera – Cooled HD thermal MWIR and SWIR imaging with detection capabilities up to 40km and identification at 14km
- 4K Electro-Optical Camera – True day/night camera with 1000mm optical zoom lens and stabilization for clear real-time images
- High-Resolution 4D Radar – Advanced detection of targets up to 20km away with highly capable Drone Detection and Tracking
- Elevated Positioning – 8m integrated pneumatic mast for maximized surveillance coverage
The system includes an operator-focused environment with intuitive controls, high-resolution displays, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities—all designed to enhance situational awareness in challenging border environments.
SightBooster Technology in Mobile Surveillance Vehicles
ThexoVision’s SightBooster software has been successfully integrated into the PRESIDIAN® surveillance vehicle, combining these complementary technologies to address visibility challenges that have historically hampered border security operations.
“Border patrol officers rely on visibility to make split-second decisions. By integrating SightBooster into the Presidian® vehicle, we are providing security forces with the ability to see through fog and bad weather, ensuring they stay one step ahead of criminals,” explains Milan Tresch, CEO of ThexoVision.
Real-World Applications
The integration of SightBooster into PRESIDIAN® mobile intelligent surveillance systems deployed along country borders ensures officers maintain situational awareness regardless of weather conditions. These mobile units provide border patrol teams with enhanced visibility capabilities when they need them most—during the adverse weather conditions that smugglers and traffickers often exploit.
The Future of Border Security
With increasing pressure on border security forces worldwide, technology must continually evolve to meet the changing strategies of smugglers and criminals. The combination of PRESIDIAN®’s mobile surveillance platform and SightBooster’s visibility enhancement creates an effective solution that addresses the weather-related blind spots that criminals have historically exploited.
The technical integration between DJ Byers Security Solutions®’ hardware and ThexoVision’s software represents an important development in border security—where mobility meets improved visibility, higher success of threat detection, and where weather conditions no longer dictate the effectiveness of border protection efforts.
For more information about SightBooster technology, visit www.thexovision.com.
For partnership opportunities, contact tresch@thexovision.com
For more information about PRESIDIAN® mobile surveillance vehicle: www.djbyersdefence.com/product/presidian or contact sales@djbyersdefence.com
