The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it will soon deploy new security measures along the border with Egypt in light of looming terror threats from the Sinai Peninsula.

The new hi-tech gear and infrastructure improvements are focused on along a 40-km "Dunes" sector of the 240-km long border fence, the IDF Spokesperson told Xinhua on Monday.

Due to its extreme topography, the open sandy area is particularly vulnerable to infiltrations and has served in the past as a corridor for militants to reach Israeli territory, the army said.

The beefed-up security is to include a fence-mounted vibration sensor array which signals operators where an infiltration is taking place. The system is also deployed on Israel's borders with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria.

Crews are also paving a new alternative road to one which runs alongside the fence, where several terror attacks have occurred.

The IDF is also planning to relocate current Dune sector outposts further away from the border in hopes of minimizing the potential for clashes between the soldiers and militants.

A month ago, a group of heavily armed gunmen ambushed a group of Israeli soldiers as they tended to several civilian infiltrators, killing a soldier and wounding a second.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a recent visit to the fence that several border clashes between Sinai-based jihadist groups and Israeli troops prove the importance of a new security fence.

Three months ago, an al-Qaida-affiliated group killed 17 Egyptian security personnel in a raid on a police observation post adjacent to the border.

In August, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak complimented Egypt's new leadership for attempting to restore law and order in the lawless Sinai hinterlands.