INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business
Cambridge Pixel supplies
coastal surveillance software
for military use
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C
ambridge Pixel, a developer of radar
display, tracking and recording
sub-systems, has supplied its
RadarWatch coastal surveillance software
and advanced target trackers to Maritime
Information Systems Ltd (Maris) as part
of an upgrade to safety systems at UK
military firing ranges. Cambridge Pixel’s
surveillance and target tracking software has
already been installed and is operational on
the south coast of England at the first of the
firing ranges, where operators are benefiting
from an enhanced situational display.
Cambridge Pixel’s new RadarWatch display
application and tracking software has
helped improve safety at the firing range
by providing an integrated radar video and
AIS (ship transponder) track display, as well
as advanced alarm capability for targets
entering user-defined danger zones.
Nic Baldwin, Technical Manager, Maris, said:
“Cambridge Pixel’s new RadarWatch display
software and its range of flexible software
modules has allowed us to design and build
a complete system upgrade for our customer
using commercial sensors.
“Cambridge Pixel’s software has provided
us with a cost-effective way of upgrading
a legacy system to utilise more modern
technologies. We have also added an AIS
transponder into the surveillance system
and the RadarWatch software is able to fuse
the AIS tracks and present the data as a
graphical overlay on top of the radar video
and map layers. This fused display enables
faster, clearer and better-informed decisions
for the operator.”
RadarWatch is designed for integrators
developing coastal surveillance, small port
and harbour security applications and
features comprehensive alarm logic, allowing
alarms to be configured based on areas,
target activity, or target behaviour. This
alarm logic includes the ability to compare
all current targets to user-defined regions
and to identify targets impinging on them.
Exceptions may be made within a ‘safe list’,
allowing identified targets to enter alarm
zones without raising an alert.
David Johnson, CEO, Cambridge Pixel, said:
“We are delighted to have secured our first
contract win for our RadarWatch display
software since its launch in the summer.
Our aim with this product is to provide the
integrator, in this case Maris, with a modern,
multi-screen, multi-window display solution
that fuses information from radar sensors,
transponders and cameras to present a
consolidated view of maritime information.” n
CAMBRIDGE PIXEL’S
SOFTWARE HAS
PROVIDED US
WITH A COST-
EFFECTIVE WAY
OF UPGRADING A
LEGACY SYSTEM
TO UTILISE
MORE MODERN
TECHNOLOGIES.
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