Securing Borders with LINEV’s Border X-ray Scanner While Facilitating Trillions in Trade
United States borders serve as vital entry points to the global economy and checkpoints for national security. By 2025, trade and travel across these through seaports, airports, and land-crossing borders could reach unprecedented levels. Representing trillions in international trade and travel to the US economy. The large volumes of goods and people crossing through our borders every day create complex security challenges. Pathways which facilitate legitimate commerce can easily be exploited to facilitate illicit activity such as the smuggling of drugs, weapons, counterfeit goods or worse, human trafficking through legitimate commerce channels.
At LINEV Systems®, we understand this tension well. Since 2001, our engineers and specialists have been at the forefront of developing and deploying innovative border X-ray scanner technologies. Designed to increase security effectiveness while minimizing disruption of legitimate trade and travel activities. Achieving this balance is more than a goal – it’s vital for national security and economic trade. Implementation requires finding intelligent yet efficient X-ray screening solutions capable of quickly differentiating legitimate cargo from potential threats across diverse and demanding border environments.
Seaports are giants in global trade, managing millions of cargo containers annually. The sheer scale of seaports is incredible – just one large cargo vessel may transport hundreds of cargo containers, making physical inspection impossible. Yet, security breaches could have severe consequences, from dangerous drugs such as fentanyl being trafficked into society to hidden weapons.
Traditional inspection methods struggle to keep pace with the volume and complexity of cargo inspection, making advanced X-ray screening technology indispensable. High-energy cargo scanning systems offer non-intrusive means to view contents inside sealed containers quickly. LINEV Systems® pushes the limits of this technology with multi-energy and dual-view capabilities. Multi-energy imaging allows operators to distinguish organic material (drugs or explosives) from inorganic material (metals) by how it reacts with different X-ray energy levels. Which is displayed as color-coding on an operator’s screen. Dual-view technology captures images from two distinct perspectives (i.e., side and top views), decreasing blind spots and making it harder for illegal items to be hidden through clever placement. AI algorithms enhance threat detection by automatically flagging suspicious anomalies for closer investigation for Customs and Border Protection officers, increasing accuracy and throughput. Our systems are built for reliability and speed to ensure that security protocols don’t hinder legitimate trade flowing through these maritime gateways.
Airport security challenges vary considerably from those at other borders. They typically involve high-volume screening of passengers, luggage and air cargo under extreme time pressure. As airports can serve as targets of disruption or harm, strict security measures must be in place to keep travelers safe while meeting traveler expectations for efficiency. Long lines or intrusive searches detract from this experience and can have detrimental economic repercussions.
LINEV Systems® addresses this concern through our selection of solutions designed specifically for the airport environment. Our baggage inspection systems utilize high-resolution imaging and sophisticated algorithms for automatic detection of explosives, weapons, narcotics and other prohibited items. Features like fast start/shutoff times and user-friendly interfaces help ensure operational efficiency, while full body scanners offer an effective method of screening passengers without engaging in physical patdowns. Our airport solutions prioritize both detection capability and throughput speed. Integrating AI for threat recognition assists operators, reduces cognitive load and accelerates clearance processes for legitimate travelers and baggage, freeing security personnel to focus their resources on potential risks instead. The aim is a secure experience that protects passengers and facilitates air travel and commerce.
Land borders pose unique challenges. The constant flow of passenger vehicles, buses, commercial trucks and pedestrians add another level of complexity, as does potential contraband. Ranging from drugs smuggled through passenger cars to illegal goods hidden within large freight shipments and even human trafficking. Checkpoints must also be designed efficiently as systems optimized solely for large trucks may create bottlenecks for passenger car passage or vice versa!
Border X-ray scanner technology plays an essential role here. LINEV Systems® pioneered drive-through scanning solutions allow vehicles of various sizes to be screened without needing to exit the vehicle (unless an immediate threat has been detected). This significantly increases throughput compared with conventional methods. Our multi-energy/multi-view portals can adapt their scanning parameters according to vehicle type, offering safety and optimal imaging performance for everything from small cars to fully loaded trucks. For example, low energy could be applied to passenger vehicles while higher energies penetrate dense cargo in trucks, helping maintain optimal flow. Such flexibility is integral for maintaining productivity. An effective border X-ray scanner deployed at land crossings serves both as a deterrent and a tool to intercept contraband before it enters the country, helping directly address threats like the Fentanyl Crisis while still permitting lawful crossings.
As threats evolve and trade volumes grow, manual inspections or older screening technologies cannot keep up. Advanced X-ray systems offer capabilities essential to modern border security:
Our understanding of the challenges found at ports, airports and land borders influences the design of our product lines. These innovative solutions have been engineered to meet unique operational needs while adhering to high safety and performance standards.
At LINEV Systems®, we believe technology plays a central role in successfully navigating modern borders. Through partnership, innovation, and focus on security and efficiency, we are helping create safer, more secure connections between America and the world.
At LINEV Systems®, we understand this tension well. Since 2001, our engineers and specialists have been at the forefront of developing and deploying innovative border X-ray scanner technologies. Designed to increase security effectiveness while minimizing disruption of legitimate trade and travel activities. Achieving this balance is more than a goal – it’s vital for national security and economic trade. Implementation requires finding intelligent yet efficient X-ray screening solutions capable of quickly differentiating legitimate cargo from potential threats across diverse and demanding border environments.
Seaports are giants in global trade, managing millions of cargo containers annually. The sheer scale of seaports is incredible – just one large cargo vessel may transport hundreds of cargo containers, making physical inspection impossible. Yet, security breaches could have severe consequences, from dangerous drugs such as fentanyl being trafficked into society to hidden weapons.
Traditional inspection methods struggle to keep pace with the volume and complexity of cargo inspection, making advanced X-ray screening technology indispensable. High-energy cargo scanning systems offer non-intrusive means to view contents inside sealed containers quickly. LINEV Systems® pushes the limits of this technology with multi-energy and dual-view capabilities. Multi-energy imaging allows operators to distinguish organic material (drugs or explosives) from inorganic material (metals) by how it reacts with different X-ray energy levels. Which is displayed as color-coding on an operator’s screen. Dual-view technology captures images from two distinct perspectives (i.e., side and top views), decreasing blind spots and making it harder for illegal items to be hidden through clever placement. AI algorithms enhance threat detection by automatically flagging suspicious anomalies for closer investigation for Customs and Border Protection officers, increasing accuracy and throughput. Our systems are built for reliability and speed to ensure that security protocols don’t hinder legitimate trade flowing through these maritime gateways.
Airport security challenges vary considerably from those at other borders. They typically involve high-volume screening of passengers, luggage and air cargo under extreme time pressure. As airports can serve as targets of disruption or harm, strict security measures must be in place to keep travelers safe while meeting traveler expectations for efficiency. Long lines or intrusive searches detract from this experience and can have detrimental economic repercussions.
LINEV Systems® addresses this concern through our selection of solutions designed specifically for the airport environment. Our baggage inspection systems utilize high-resolution imaging and sophisticated algorithms for automatic detection of explosives, weapons, narcotics and other prohibited items. Features like fast start/shutoff times and user-friendly interfaces help ensure operational efficiency, while full body scanners offer an effective method of screening passengers without engaging in physical patdowns. Our airport solutions prioritize both detection capability and throughput speed. Integrating AI for threat recognition assists operators, reduces cognitive load and accelerates clearance processes for legitimate travelers and baggage, freeing security personnel to focus their resources on potential risks instead. The aim is a secure experience that protects passengers and facilitates air travel and commerce.
Land borders pose unique challenges. The constant flow of passenger vehicles, buses, commercial trucks and pedestrians add another level of complexity, as does potential contraband. Ranging from drugs smuggled through passenger cars to illegal goods hidden within large freight shipments and even human trafficking. Checkpoints must also be designed efficiently as systems optimized solely for large trucks may create bottlenecks for passenger car passage or vice versa!
Border X-ray scanner technology plays an essential role here. LINEV Systems® pioneered drive-through scanning solutions allow vehicles of various sizes to be screened without needing to exit the vehicle (unless an immediate threat has been detected). This significantly increases throughput compared with conventional methods. Our multi-energy/multi-view portals can adapt their scanning parameters according to vehicle type, offering safety and optimal imaging performance for everything from small cars to fully loaded trucks. For example, low energy could be applied to passenger vehicles while higher energies penetrate dense cargo in trucks, helping maintain optimal flow. Such flexibility is integral for maintaining productivity. An effective border X-ray scanner deployed at land crossings serves both as a deterrent and a tool to intercept contraband before it enters the country, helping directly address threats like the Fentanyl Crisis while still permitting lawful crossings.
As threats evolve and trade volumes grow, manual inspections or older screening technologies cannot keep up. Advanced X-ray systems offer capabilities essential to modern border security:
- Non-Intrusive Inspection: Examining cargo and vehicles without opening or unloading can save considerable time and labor costs while protecting goods and transit times.
- Enhanced Detection: High-resolution imaging, multi-energy material discrimination, and multiple view perspectives enable operators to easily detect concealed contraband that would escape detection by more traditional systems or human eyes alone.
- Speed and Throughput: Systems and optimized workflows enable the screening of hundreds of vehicles or baggage items per hour, minimizing delays at busy checkpoints.
- Data Integration: Modern border X-ray scanner systems can integrate seamlessly with other security platforms, including Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), container code recognition systems and radiation detectors for more protection.
- AI Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing screening by automating the detection of specific threats, relieving operator fatigue and improving consistency while enabling risk-based targeting.
Our understanding of the challenges found at ports, airports and land borders influences the design of our product lines. These innovative solutions have been engineered to meet unique operational needs while adhering to high safety and performance standards.
- DTP 7500/320DV · Multi-energy/dual-view solution: This system is an outstanding example of versatility for land border crossings that serve a mixed traffic load, using high-energy (7.5 MeV) to scan cargo trucks while still permitting passenger cars, vans and buses through the same portal. Dual-view projections significantly improve vehicle detection across a wide range of vehicle types. This multi-energy, dual-view approach facilitates quick, safe screening of diverse traffic streams ranging from light cars to loaded containers. With a maximum throughput (up to 150 vehicles/hour) and detection efficiency without the need for separate systems for different vehicle classes, it directly meets land border security demands efficiently.
- DTP 320DVB · Occupied passenger bus solution: Designed to quickly screen passenger buses at border crossings. The DTP 320DVB prioritizes both speed and thoroughness during its screening processes. Utilizing dual view 320kV X-ray sources positioned downward and laterally, these cameras produce detailed images to detect threats or contraband hidden within bus structures or luggage compartments while assuring passenger safety. Due to its impressive throughput capacity of up to 120 objects/hour, its high throughput capacity helps prevent bottlenecks encountered when inspecting buses. It comes equipped with AI algorithms to automatically detect people, providing another layer of defense against human trafficking.
- BV 100100TB · Single view 1000 by 1000 mm tunnel solution: Ideal for screening larger baggage, small cargo and parcels at airports, ports or border checkpoints. The BV 100100TB features an opening measuring one square meter. High-resolution imaging combined with state-of-the-art software featuring automatic threat detection for firearms, knives, explosives and drugs powered by Artificial Intelligence ensures thorough inspection. This system features fast start-up and shutdown times (30 seconds), providing optimal operational readiness. With exceptional penetration (34mm steel guaranteed) and multiple color palettes for advanced image analysis, this border X-ray scanner ensures reliable screening for checked luggage and small cargo without impeding the flow of legitimate goods and luggage.
- MIP CONPASS BV · Minivan-based universal screening solution: This solution offers unmatched mobility. Integrating an award-winning CONPASS DV full-body scanner and an award-winning BV6045 baggage scanner into a standard minivan platform (such as Ford or Mercedes) creates an innovative mobile checkpoint solution. For temporary screening needs, border crossing surge operations, event security near border zones or setting up checkpoints in remote locations lacking permanent infrastructure. DRUGUARD® body scanner software enables this portable border X-ray scanner unit to offer advanced contraband detection for rapid screening solutions at any location while responding quickly to changing security needs.
At LINEV Systems®, we believe technology plays a central role in successfully navigating modern borders. Through partnership, innovation, and focus on security and efficiency, we are helping create safer, more secure connections between America and the world.