Protection of energy supplies and border security has become increasingly critical in today's economic and political climate. Disruption due to terrorism, vandalism, and natural disasters can be extremely costly. Maintaining adequate 24x7 security with traditional aerial or terrestrial security patrols can be very challenging for volatile border areas. Oil-and-gas pipeline installations are also a challenge since they are frequently located in remote and/or inaccessible areas. Underground intrusions and concealed activities have increased in frequency—for instance, those occurring near the U.S.-Mexico border—and are posing difficult challenges to security agencies around the world.

In response to this widespread need to secure extended tracts with valuable and vulnerable assets in remote areas—affordably, effectively and efficiently—technology pioneer and entrepreneur Arif Diwan founded Willigent Corporation. A global organization, Willigent is dedicated to providing advanced security products and services, based on location technology and wireless telemetry, to key customers worldwide.

Drawing on industry contacts—and experience as an executive at WITS Corporation and a senior manager at BBN Technologies (later part of GTE and then Verizon)—Diwan has assembled an international team of experts in wireless, location, sensor networks, and such diversified areas as industrial design. Taking advantage of intelligent sensor networks originally developed at WITS for wireless telemetry for diversified applications, Willigent's expert team has combined these in unique and proprietary ways to devise the Invisible Fence^TM System. This intrusion-detection system offers customers comprehensive, cost-effective, 24x7/360° protection. With Invisible Fence, government and commercial organizations can reliably and continuously monitor assets located in vast expanses anywhere in the world. And once an intrusion is detected, they can respond appropriately, quickly, and effectively.

Willigent Corporation—d/b/a Willigent Technologies—is a U.S. corporation headquartered west of Boston (Mass.) in the Route 128 high-tech corridor, with senior representation in Asia and Europe.