Eli Jacobs (R) of Haifa’s Adaptive Imaging Technologies and Larrell Walters of UD’s IDCAST demonstrate the new high-tech ResoLUT 77 Panoramic Camera at STAN Solutions’ office at Tech Town on May 27. The camera is set up on the balcony (horizontal black box L of the computer screen) with a view of downtown Dayton.Panoramic detection camera ‘way ahead’ of competition
By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer
On May 27, representatives of Adaptive Imaging Technologies of Haifa joined staff of STAN Solutions and IDCAST at Dayton’s Tech Town to demonstrate Adaptive’s new ResoLUT 77 Panoramic Camera.
Adaptive developed the 160-degree high-resolution camera and STAN is expanding the camera’s capabilities with sensors it developed in partnership with the University of Dayton’s IDCAST.
According to IDCAST Director Larrell Walters, who led much of the demonstration, the camera’s applications include force protection, border patrol, government, and law enforcement use.
“Let’s say there are hills out there 500, 1,000 meters, and I want to see if a head pops up,” Walters says. “Well, we can watch that horizon, that line across there and see if a head comes up and if there’s any kind of net change in that part every two seconds or every one second.”
STAN Solutions President Tony Manuel
Tony Manuel, president of STAN Solutions, says the camera is now for sale; he’s had inquiries from Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, and police departments.
In 2009, STAN acquired the North American distribution rights for Adaptive’s camera. The deal resulted from Dayton and Montgomery County’s 2008 trade mission to Israel.
It’s Manuel’s job to market the camera in the United States. STAN will also provide U.S. training and support for the camera.
“Even though this has been two and a half years (in development), no one’s caught up with this technology yet,” Manuel says. “We’re still way ahead. We know there are other cameras out there, but none of them can do this. You’re looking at a million-dollar system here that we’re selling for $100,000 or a little more.”
Walters says no other high-tech camera has the flexibility to see context or detail at the same level as Adaptive’s.
“It’s great for municipalities,” Walters says. “Let’s say I’m looking down a street and I’ve had vandalism on that street. I can sit there and say, ‘OK, between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., I want to know any time something moves on that street.’ You could set it up where it notifies a police officer or where it automatically records anytime something changes.”
Walters says the camera can run on any Windows computer with a USB port. STAN and IDCAST will now work on embedding the camera’s software into command and control systems that clients already have in place.
While in the United States, Adaptive CEO Gideon Miller says he and Eli Jacobs — who developed the camera’s hardware — demonstrated the camera to representatives of the Defense Department. Jacobs says the Israeli Defense Forces has bought one camera for evaluation.
Manuel has had inquiries from Singapore, the Philippines, and South Korea for military, homeland security, and police support. He’s considering opening a satellite office outside the United States but wants to keep Ohio as the hub for repair and integration.
“The cameras will come here,” he says. “If we’re training someone, we want them to come here. We want to try to pull that market and bring it back here to Ohio. This is the way for us to create jobs. This is what IDCAST was built for, to find a way to take those type of technologies, keep them here and feed that synergy here.”
