Glossary
The words of spectrum security.
- Alert tablet
- The point on site where the alert is received and managed.
- Annotated event
- A closed event with observations from the field. It is what produces data you can manage.
- CAD
- The computer-aided dispatch system of the client's control center.
- Dispatch and closure
- The two steps in handling an alert: sending the right guard and documenting what they found.
- Escalation
- An automatic notice to the next level up when an event has no closure.
- False positive
- A detected signal whose origin is not criminal or cannot be verified.
- Fixed sensor
- Equipment with permanent 24/7 coverage that tells you where to look.
- Handheld detector
- A radar-style handheld unit the guard uses for the fine search on the ground.
- Heat map
- A cumulative view of activity by zone and time of day.
- Jamming
- The act of leaving a site's wireless systems deaf.
- Jamming event
- A recorded detection, with a start time, duration and location.
- Law 21.719
- Chile's personal data protection law, fully in force from December 1, 2026.
- Law 21.720
- Chilean law that bans selling, carrying or using signal jammers, in force since December 2024.
- One · Sector · Hyperlocation
- The three configurations of the same sensors. They are levels of location certainty, not of coverage.
- Signal jammer
- A device that emits massive noise over the frequencies wireless systems use, leaving them deaf. Also called simply a jammer.
- Spectrum security
- Tank's category: seeing what happens in a site's spectrum and turning what you see into response, evidence and intelligence.
- The invisible perimeter
- The spectrum that all of a site's defenses depend on. Every site has two perimeters: the one you can see and the one you can't.
- Three layers of security
- Physical (fences, doors, guards), electronic (cameras, alarms, sensors, radios) and spectral (the signal all of that communicates through). The first two depend on the third.
- Time to target
- The actual time between the start of an attack and the moment someone from the team reaches the person carrying it out. It includes the guard's search.