Advocating for safer communities worldwide
WHO WE ARE:
Image Insight, Inc. is a software development company with more than 14 years’ experience in the digital image analysis industry. Our mission is to develop and deploy innovative image analysis technologies to support National Security, Public Safety, and private sector needs through revolutionary technological solutions to formidable problems. We strive to protect people and places by ensuring safer, healthier and more productive environments through the use of unique technologies of image analysis.
WHAT WE DO:
Image Insight, Inc.’s flagship product, GammaPix™ Pro is a patented radioactivity detection technology that provides low cost, wide-spread detection of ionizing radiation to support a wide range of military, intelligence, public safety, and medical missions and applications. GammaPix™ products are used to help secure radiological sources and to protect people and places from radiation accidents, theft of radioactive materials and radiological terrorism. Mobile, cloud-based, IoT, and on-prem server solutions support dismounted users, vehicle platforms, and facility security needs. GammaPix™ software uses Image Insight's proprietary algorithms to turn any digital camera (network cameras, smartphones, and webcams) into an ionizing radiation detector. GammaPix™-enabled cameras have been employed by public safety and national security organizations to detect ionizing radiation. By equipping security cameras and smartphones with GammaPix™ Pro software, military and public safety organizations create a distributed sensor network to detect radioactive materials.
We began developing this technology in 2002 and have received R&D contracts totaling over $3.5m with agencies such as the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. GammaPix™ has been extensively tested by national laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. Our innovative technology has received awards such as a Top Technology R&D 100 award (2012), the "Most Innovative Product or Service" at the "Innovation in Resilience" conference in the UK (2012) as well as a 2013 Tech Company to Watch from the CT Innovation Summit.
WHY WE MATTER:
Many GammaPix™-enabled cameras can work together to create a comprehensive detection capability to protect people and places and to serve as a critical part of the nuclear detection architecture. This network of detection nodes would likely provide the first notice of the theft of a radiological source, and provide both a preliminary location, and a time-tagged track as it is moved. Our integrated virtual reality training simulator enables personnel to train in their local areas against virtual threats in a real-world scenario. These training sessions have been successfully employed by military, police, and other frontline responders to train against complex threats, and across substantial land areas. This technology was assessed by the Department of Homeland Security under the SAFETY Act and has twice been designated a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT) and has benefitted from past SBIR contracts with DARPA, U.S. Army, and currently U.S. Air Force. It is a commercially available technology and has been used in operational environments from New York City by the NYPD to Afghanistan by U.S. soldiers. Image Insight is also developing (TRL 5) a new, state-of-the-art, low-cost, video analysis capability, called LiDAR and UAS Detection System (LaUDS), to detect and track LiDAR emitters such as commercial and military UAS and other optical/infrared (OIR) transients like laser target designators and rangefinders, and airborne artillery shells and rockets. LaUDS will augment current counter-UAS (c-UAS), and counter-sniper systems used by militaries across the world, and by special police units in high-risk urban areas. It will help protect vulnerable public sites such as sports venues and pedestrian gathering areas, along with critical infrastructure. Its core technology, command and control, and user interface have been tested in field tests and operationally at the Air Force Marathon.
