Sandia has merged several pieces of technology (touch-surface tables, game engines, simulations) into an impressive tool for testing and evaluating border control systems.

For the Borders HLM project, the Ground Truth software has been integrated into a bottom-projected touch surface table. On this game surface, users can see “people” moving across the border terrain, observe CBP “personnel” responding to incidents and essentially control those movements and “apprehend” suspects. Users can also view a leader board of sorts that shows how many suspects have been apprehended, the dollar amount spent implementing the chosen architecture and other metrics that matter to CBP decision-makers.

Looks like it could be both a great training tool, and later a great monitoring and control solution.

Update 6/6/2011: The original video was taken down, so I’ve replaced it with another (non-Youtube) video.

via Sandia researchers merge serious gaming, simulation tools to create high-level models for border security – Sandia Labs News Releases.

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