FluxData, Inc. will exhibit at the SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing symposium and exhibition in Orlando, Florida April 5 through 9, 2010. This event is the largest international symposium related to sensors, systems, and platforms, and is an ideal venue for the company to present a new line of multispectral systems. FluxData will be in booth 3208 of the Palms Ballroom of the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center.

FluxData will demonstrate the FD-1665 multispectral and polarization camera line and a new multispectral unattended ground sensor platform (UGS-X1) which delivers the combination of size, speed, and sensitivity necessary for the challenging imaging requirements of defense, security, and surveillance markets.

The UGS-X1 unattended imaging platform is ideal for covert land and air operations where its imaging characteristics can be tuned to detect and track discreetly marked or actively designated targets. An embedded ARM processor, TI DSP and graphics accelerator provide a platform for fast onboard multispectral processing and filtering in a small, low power package ideal for covert placement. The UGS-X1 can be integrated with a wide array of acoustic, seismic, infrared sensors and 3rd party radios and networks. FluxData will be exhibiting the UGS-X1 and FD-1665 3CCD multispectral camera line throughout the show.

About FluxData, Inc.:
FluxData develops and manufactures multispectral and polarimetric imaging systems for aerospace, defense, industrial, medical and scientific markets. FluxData is a privately held, women owned company located in Rochester, NY. FluxData’s imaging and system integration expertise helps guide customers from camera specification to delivery of the final system. Their staff of imaging experts works with customers to frame the problem, and deliver an optimized system based on a broad suite of options. Every product comes with FluxData’s commitment to first-rate customer support. For more information, please visit www.fluxdata.com.
Contact: Pano Spiliotis, (800) 425-0176

FluxData,Inc., a leader in multispectral imaging, has recognized customer demand for this new emerging standard in camera connectivity. The FluxData FD-1665 3CCD multispectral camera line now offers GigE connectivity in the same compact form factor as their Firewire cameras. GigE is capable of supporting long cable lengths up to 100 meters and high data transfer rates up to 1000 Mbits/s in addition to being standard interface on today’s computers.

The line of cameras is currently built around the robust FD-1665 optical prism engine, which offers reduced spherical and chromatic aberration while allowing the use of standard 35mm SLR F-mount or T-mount lenses. The 3 CCD FD-1665 GigE camera is a small size form factor of 4.8 x 3.5 x 4.4 inches (LxWxH). The modular approach to the camera design encompasses 12 CCD sensor options with varying frame rates (up to 120 fps), and resolutions (up to 1626×1236), all with Firewire or GigE connectivity. In addition, customers can choose between polarization, multispectral, and high dynamic range (HDR) filtering options based on their specific application.

The addition of the GigE option makes it well suited for a variety of application areas including machine vision, surveillance, and medical imaging, and offers the user the added flexibility of increased remote deployment of the camera from the host computer.

Regardless of application, FluxData, Inc.’s imaging and system integration expertise helps guide customers from camera specification to delivery of the final system. Their staff of imaging experts can help frame the problem, and deliver the best system based on the suite of options.

Pano Spiliotis, CEO of FluxData, Inc. states “The introduction of the FD-1665 GigE 3CCD cameras will provide our customers with a connectivity option for greater distances to remote locations and greater flexibility for their own system integration.”

About FluxData, Inc.:
FluxData develops and manufactures multispectral and polarimetric imaging systems and solutions for a wide range of applications. FluxData, Inc.’s imaging and system integration expertise helps guide customers from camera specification to delivery of the final system. Their staff of imaging experts works with customers to frame the problem, and deliver an optimized system based on a broad suite of options. Every product comes with FluxData’s commitment to first-rate customer support. For more information, please visit www.fluxdata.com.
Contact: Pano Spiliotis, (800) 425-0176 x701

The FD-1665P is a new camera system capable of collecting video at three linear polarization orientations simultaneously. Polarimetric imaging is an active research area in medical, machine vision and defense applications. Because the polarimetric preserving and/or inducing properties of materials are often complementary to their spectral signatures, polarization provides additional information to analysts and researchers. Polarization imaging has been used to identify stress and defects in aircraft assemblies; “see” into the water column in littoral and marine applications; separate specular from diffuse reflectance for material analysis and identification; and automatically detect manmade objects in natural surroundings.

The FD-1665P is an ideal solution to address all of these areas, capturing simultaneous registered video from its three sensors, a feature not available in competing systems based on sequential switching. The optical system is based on the robust and successful FluxData FD-1665, a flexible 3-CCD camera system that can be configured with user specified filters in front of each sensor. The standard offering for the FD-1665P is 0, 45, and 90 degree linear polarization filters in front of the three RGB sensors at up to 120 frames per second. The internal configuration of the camera system allows for high data throughput and independent control of exposure, gain and frame-rate for maintaining high signal-to-noise ratios from each sensor. The 3-CCDs can be simultaneously or sequentially triggered via software or hardware. The system accepts 14mm-1500mm lenses in F-mount and t-mount styles, and includes connection points for fixed or tripod mounting.

The optical system is integrated into a redesigned, compact enclosure, measuring approximately 4.8 x 3.5 x 4.4 inches (LxWxH). The design offers direct connections to the Firewire, GPIO and power connections of each camera in an extremely small, finished package. The polarimetric optical engine is also available in an embedded configuration that combines it with a full computer and provides the user with powerful in-camera processing capabilities.

Pano Spiliotis, CEO of FluxData, Inc. states, “This is a very exciting development for FluxData and our customers. The ability to provide a new imaging modality on the existing FD-1665 optical engine compliments our growing portfolio of products and services. The unique information that is produced from polarimetric imaging is complimentary to multispectral and hyperspectral solutions for classification and detection of complex scenes.”

About FluxData, Inc.:
FluxData, Inc. develops and manufactures multispectral systems for a wide range of industrial applications. FluxData provides accurate, flexible and scalable instrumentation for research and development, production and process control. Every product comes with FluxData’s commitment to first-rate customer support. For more information, please visit www.fluxdata.com.
Contact: Pano Spiliotis, (800) 425-0176, info@fluxdata.com

This new system allows complex on-board processing of large volumes of multispectral data. It is a flexible imaging system, affording users all of the services of a workstation computer including the options to process data locally in applications such as target detection, streaming data to a central control center, or in a more exotic, peer-to-peer configuration where the cameras interact with and que each other, or parallel process each other’s data.

The optical system is based on the robust and successful FluxData FD-1665. The FD-1665 is a flexible 3-CCD camera system that can be manufactured with any combination of narrow-band or broad-band filter coatings between 380-1000nm. This provides a performance advantage over existing RGB 3-CCD or 2-CCD RGB/NIR systems where spectral response is limited to predefined manufacturer configurations. The internal configuration of the camera system allows for high data throughput and independent control of exposure, gain and frame-rate for maintaining high signal-to-noise ratios from each sensor. The 3-CCDs can be simultaneously or sequentially triggered via software or hardware. The system can accept 14mm-1500mm lenses in F-mount and T-mount styles, as well as tripod or pan/tilt mounted.

The optical system is integrated within one physical enclosure with the PC/104 computer. The computer specifications include an Intel Core2Duo up to 1.67 GHz, 2GB DDR-RAM, 100Base-T LAN-Ethernet, USB 2.0, SATA, VGA, and Firewire 800. It is capable of running Microsoft Windows based operating systems or a variety of the Linux distributions. The PC104 hardware can be configured with other PCI or PCI- Express options to meet the user’s requirements.

The versatile camera design supports a wide array of applications in various markets, especially where there are size and weight limitations while still requiring multispectral imagery with high power processing. These applications include a wide-area network of high resolution cameras for surveillance, real-time target detection using multi-spectral imagery, or a self-contained stand-off detection system used in treaty and environmental monitoring. Additionally, this system is poised to be deployed in a variety of fields including medical and machine vision, utilizing custom spectral, polarimetric or HDR filters, with sensors capable of operating at a variety of frame rates.

Pano Spiliotis, CEO of FluxData, Inc. states, “The release of the FD-1665 with a fully embedded computer option represents a major step forward in offering a truly integrated multispectral imaging system that can provide real time processing, detection and dissemination. This configuration is ideal for remote locations where size, weight and power are critical. Furthermore, the embedded version of the FD-1665 will allow for time and cost savings to integrators.”

About FluxData, Inc.:
FluxData develops and manufactures analytical instrumentation for a wide range of industrial applications. FluxData provides accurate, flexible and scalable instrumentation for research and development, production and process control. Every product comes with FluxData’s commitment to first-rate customer support. For more information, please visit www.fluxdata.com.

Contact: Pano Spiliotis, (800) 425-0176

The FD-1665 is offered in 1.4, 2 and 5 megapixel resolutions using Sony ICX-285, ICX-274, and ICX-625 CCDs, respectively. Users can select a pre-configured 3, 5, 7, or 9 channel camera or configure an application specific 3-CCD system with any combination of color and monochrome sensors and custom filters. Built upon a patented design, the FD-1665 allows the use of standard Nikon F-mount lenses, correcting the image at each sensor to precisely match alignment, focus, magnification and reduce chromatic aberration introduced by the prism beam splitter.

The FD-1665 is a flexible 3-CCD camera system that can be manufactured with any combination of narrow-band or broad-band filter coatings between 380-1000nm. This provides a performance advantage over existing RGB 3-CCD or 2-CCD RGB/NIR systems where spectral response is limited to predefined manufacturer configurations. The three separate Firewire outputs of the FD-1665 allow for high data throughput and independent control of exposure, gain and frame-rate for maintaining high signal-to-noise ratios from each sensor. The 3-CCDs can be simultaneously or sequentially triggered via software or hardware.

The versatile camera design supports a wide array of applications in various markets. These include fluorescence and in-vivo imaging for medical, biotechnology, analytical and drug discovery to narrow band imaging for spectroscopy, materials analysis and detection. The three optical paths of the FD-1665 can also be configured for purposes beyond simple spectral selectivity. For example, polarization at up to three orientation angles can be measured simultaneously; identical sensors can be used for high frame rate or asynchronous capture; or three exposure ranges can be captured simultaneously for high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging.

Pano Spiliotis, CEO of FluxData, Inc. states, “The FD-1665 will provide an important opportunity to OEM’s, system integrators and end-users by giving them the ability to quickly configure a custom multi-spectral system with their own pre-defined spectral bands or filter configurations into a fully integrated system. The FD-1665 provides simultaneous, multi-channel imaging at video frame rates, a significant advantage over the sequential capture of filter-wheel and liquid-crystal based systems. Our unique optical-mechanical design and the incorporation of high quality filters allow FluxData to provide customizable multispectral imaging systems to the medical, spectroscopy, analytical, color, industrial and defense markets in a cost effective manner.”

FluxData will work with customers to design a purpose-built configuration that meets their specific requirements. Standard configuration systems can be made to order for delivery in 4-6 weeks.

About FluxData, Inc.:

FluxData develops and manufactures analytical instrumentation for a wide range of industrial applications. FluxData provides accurate, flexible and scalable instrumentation for research and development, production and process control. Every product comes with FluxData’s commitment to first-rate customer support. For more information, please visit www.fluxdata.com.

Contact: Pano Spiliotis, (800) 425-0176, info@fluxdata.com

The Vision Show 2008 - Boston, MA, USA
FluxData, Inc will be exhibiting at The Vision Show 2008 in Boston, MA, USA in Booth 135 from June 10 - 12, 2008.