Walleye's patent-pending microwave technology platform generates high quality digital images that allow users to see through solid objects and display, store, analyze and transmit images. The Walleye technology is based on the field of long wavelength imaging systems, in particular, millimeter wave imaging systems. Walleye's ability to deliver the benefits of this technology in a portable, handheld, battery powered device is an industry first.Walleye's portable microwave imaging camera provides customers with a powerful solution for applications with a wide range of requirements such as size, weight, affordability and low dose radiation that large stationary machines can simply not provide.
- Portability: Rapid field response and usage in remote locations.
- Reduced Weight and Size: Lightweight, handheld device weighs less than 3 pounds.
- Battery Powered: Rechargeable for portability and field operations.
- Digital Microwave Images: Same high quality imaging as large, stationary machines.
- Low Cost: Breakthrough design leads to a reduced camera cost.
COMMERCIAL MARKET APPLICATIONSWalleye's portable microwave camera provides commercial customers with an innovative, cost effective solution for a wide variety of applications that require handheld imaging and microwave capabilities in a durable, lightweight, solid state design.
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Each year home owners and construction professionals are engaged in economic decisions regarding the repair and rehabilitation of private homes and large, public buildings. Their decisions are typically based on best estimates and educated guesses of what lies beneath the surface or behind obstructed areas such as walls, floors and ceilings. Professionals who install new wiring or plumbing systems in existing structures are at a similar disadvantage. The inability to get a clear, concise view of potential or unanticipated construction or installation problems prior to demolition can cause significant delays, cost overruns and in some cases, professional liability.
Solution:
Walleye's portable imaging camera takes the guess work out of repair, renovation and installation by delivering high quality images of objects behind walls, floors, ceilings and other solid objects. Walleye uses microwave based technology combined with proprietary optical components to create the image. Having a clear, concise view of hidden or obstructed objects in residential, commercial and institutional buildings will reduce costs and increase efficiencies for consumers and professionals, and create a new category of tools in the construction market.
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Commercial and Homeland Security MarketsSituation:
Security devices such as electronic millimeter wave imaging systems, metal detectors and x-ray conveyer belts perform an adequate job protecting our buildings, borders and other key assets from intruders, theft and terrorist threats. These devices typically require multiple sources, receivers and rapid mechanical scanning in order to process animate and inanimate objects that pass through buildings and ports of entry such as employees, passengers, trucks, containers ships and freight. Although they are essential at securing key assets, these requirements drive up the cost, complexity, size and weight of security systems.
Solution:
Walleye's portable microwave camera is a radical departure from today's millimeter wave imaging systems and other security devices. Its small, lightweight and inexpensive design makes it a superior solution for imaging the interior of abandoned boxes, suitcases, and the like for controlled substances, hazardous materials, explosive devices and other security threats.
Industrial MarketsThe Walleye camera offers a unique ability to be deployed as a handheld inspection system for the industrial inspection and manufacturing markets. The camera's microwave technology combined with high quality imaging make it an ideal solution for inspection and manufacturing processes where size and weight of imaging cameras are issues, such as the quality control of finished good in automobile manufacturing.
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The Walleye technology is based on the field of long wavelength imaging systems, in particular, millimeter wave imaging systems. Objects and materials that are opaque at visible wavelengths are transparent at millimeter and radio frequency (RF) wavelengths. Non-visible wavelength imaging systems are typically used in inspection systems because they allow users to 'see' through and into walls, concrete structures, clothing, boxes, and other opaque structures. As the image if formed it is simultaneously shown on an integrated LCD screen.
Millimeter Wave Imaging
Millimeter wave imaging systems have recently been developed for security screen applications such as passengers at airport gates, trucks and containers at ports of entry, and freight on a conveyor belt. Typically these systems involve multiple sources and/or receivers and rapid mechanical scanning in order to process multiple objects rapidly. The requirements associated with the security mission drive the cost, complexity and size/weight of these systems.Walleye's portable microwave camera is a radical departure from today's millimeter wave imaging systems and other security devices. Its small, lightweight and inexpensive design makes it a superior solution for imaging the interior of abandoned boxes, suitcases, and the like for controlled substances, hazardous materials, explosive devices and other security threats.
ADVANTAGES OVER TRADITIONAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
Ultrasound Imaging
Ultrasound imaging systems require a continuous, high quality acoustic transmission path between the transducer and the "hidden" object. This typically requires the object to be immersed in a transmissive medium like a fluid.
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