Equipped with state-of-the-art sensors and cutting-edge analytics, the BSS “will monitor the vast land borders, prevent intrusions, assess situations with unparalleled accuracy and prove to be a force multiplier in intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance,” the MoD said.The system will enable commanders to operate in conventional and sub-conventional operations in a network-centric environment. Its induction will be an extraordinary leap towards data and network centricity in the Indian Army. “As the entire feed, real-time, will come to one place before the commanders, thus helping them in analysing and deciding and reacting quickly against the enemy,” said an officer.Surveillance is important to know, among the other things, about the terrain, infrastructure development), troop and equipment deployment and placement. It is done through various means: ground and air being the main channels.Sanjay, the defence ministry said, has been indigenously and jointly developed by the Indian Army and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).“It has created a conducive ecosystem towards achieving ‘Aatmanirbharta’ as a follow-up to the Indian Army’s Year of Technology Absorption,” the officer said.
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