Computer hardware sold as an integrated component of semi-automatic guided vehicle; computer communications software for use in maintaining communication with manned posts and sold as an integrated component of semi-automatic guided vehicle; computer software for the use in monitoring and controlling of semi-automatic guided vehicle featuring a motorized platform for the protection of fences and secured areas, and sold as an integrated component of semi-automatic guided vehicle; computer terminals; electric luminescent display units for monitoring the data transmitted from the motorized platform, the map of operation and the position and status of the motorized platform; computer joysticks; communication apparatus comprised of telecommunications transmitters and mobile data receivers capable of transmitting video images, data and audio in short intervals; optical apparatus, namely, day-night photography equipment, namely, infrared cameras; image processing system comprised of laser scanners and obstacle identification units for identifying and mapping obstacles to the movement of the motorized platform; navigation apparatus for vehicles in the nature of on-board computers; satellite navigational system, namely, a global positioning system; public address system; all of the foregoing being for the protection of fences and secured areas, and none of the above for database security