Instantaneous Personal
Protection System
Communications & Embedded Systems
View Video with Windows Media. The video above shows the airbag inflating and intercepting a 9-mm round. The radar triggering the airbag was a bi-static, CW Doppler radar operating at X band.
IPPS prototype demonstration
A prototype radar system was developed by engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to detect an oncoming bullet and trigger an airbag with a bullet-proof coating. The application for this system is to protect a speaker at a podium.
The prototype successfully blocks a 9-mm round fired from a handgun, and recent technological advances are making the interception of a rifle shot possible.
Related Terminology
communication devices • communication networks • radar systems • custom test systems • RF instrumentation • system integration • RF consultant • analysis development, communications • pulsed power • high power • electromagnetic simulation • wireless design • communications engineering
