Gooch & Housego provides optical system design, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain management services. From sites in the UK and USA the company provides ITAR compliant components and assemblies for harsh environments to aerospace and defence contractors and system integrators. The company also has ISO:9001:2008 and AS9100:2009 Rev.C Quality Assurance accreditations. G&H’s expertise in solutions for the aerospace, defence and space markets revolves largely around integrated fibre optic component packaging and precision high tech optics. Renowned for both quality and innovation, their sub systems and components and are used for guidance and navigation (avionic, missile and satellite), optopyrotechnics and data comms. G&H’s precision optics, fibre optics - and additionally acousto-optics, electrooptics, optical radiation measurement
instrumentation and nonlinear optics - are used in applications as diverse as: • Avionic data comm • Battlefield simulation systems • Cockpit display testing • Electronic warfare/countermeasure systems • Interferometric measurement • Satellite telecoms • Space ignition systems • Target designation and range finding systems Established nearly 70 years ago in Ilminster, Somerset, the name Gooch & Housego has become a global force in photonic design and manufacturing, managing customers’ project from conception to completion. From it’s origins as a craft-based optical engineering company, G&H has undergone a transformation over the last twenty years through a policy of acquisition of the best-inbreed in individual technology areas, into a global high-technology photonics business. Today, Gooch & Housego comprises six manufacturing sites in California, Ohio and Florida in addition to its three UK facilities located in Ilminster, Glenrothes and Torquay. The company also has sales offices in France, Germany, China, Japan and Singapore as well as global representation by distributors.
Aerospace & Defence Based upon fibre optic and precision optics
technologies, G&H provide guidance and navigation components for ring laser gyroscope, fibre optic gyroscope inertial navigation systems and opto pyrotechnic sub assemblies for space ignition systems. These navigation and opto pyrotechnic components meet the requirements of a variety of end markets including those of the civil and military aircraft, missiles, satellites and space exploration sectors, with products used extensively by US and European avionic, defence and space organizations. Organisations operating in the defence sector call for ‘real value’ in order to sustain a wide array of platforms. This provides G&H with strong opportunities for photonics as a superior replacement for many existing technologies. In line with the company’s evolution, G&H have constantly developed fibre optic and semiconductor laser technology with the benefits of reliability, small size and lower cost of ownership. G&H’s commitment to R&D and Quality Assurance and its expertise in key essential technologies make it the partner of choice for any aerospace and defence supplier wishing to work with the world’s leading photonics engineering company. Whether it be volume manufacturing of a single critical component or development of a complex prototype, G&H is well positioned to meet and exceed supply
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expectations. Customers include leading suppliers to US and EU defence procurement programmes as well national space agencies such as NASA and ESA and leading satellite technology companies. The company strongly believe that space photonics will revolutionize satellite communication through enabling broadband satellite connectivity, in the same way that fibre-optics revolutionized terrestrial networks. Latest technologies will feature lower mass and power consumption whilst maintaining critical performance capabilities for satellite, satellite communication and onboard satellite data processing and routing. Fibre Optics With an unparalleled reputation in endto-end fibre optic systems, G&H develops high quality, active and passive fibre optic components and optical modules, which are extensively used in harsh environments for terrestrial, marine, space and aerospace in addition to industrial and life science applications. The company’s current crop of revolutionary technological developments include: • Highest performance fused fibre couplers and high power combiners. • High speed detectors – ripple free, linear response from DC to 20GHz. • High power, single-mode fibre coupled
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lasers up to 700mW power. Ruggedized high power, high bandwidth DFB and DBR lasers Benchtop controllers with USB or touchpad interface control. Fibre optic assemblies Acousto–optic fibre coupled devices for perimeter and pipeline monitoring applications. Design and packaging services – high reliability components for use in undersea, avionic and space environments.
Precision Optics G&H provide precision optical technology and design capability for most of the major defence suppliers, including components and assemblies for missiles and fibre Optics in space / satellite photonics and avionics. Precision optical components and complex assemblies fabricated from optical materials covering the visible band through to the far infra-red are used by our high profile customers in: Laser Target Designators, target locators, missile seekers where high: performance, reliability and stability are critical to achieve the performance edge required.
For further information, please contact Gooch & Housego on 01460 256 440, email inquiries to sales@goochandhousego.com, or visit the company’s website at www.goochandhousego.com.
VISION BASED SECURITY SOLUTIONS 2014 AWARD WINNERS
The Senior Management team of Security Industry E Magazine are excited to announce the deserving recipients of the ‘Vision-based Security Solutions Award 2014’ as, Visio Ingenii. Luton-based, Visio Ingenii holds a passion to introduce next generation machine vision based technology solutions to the defence, security, transportation, medical and retail industries.
Translating to Vision Intelligence in Latin, Visio Ingenii’s chief objective is to improve security and safety, making intelligence more powerful than ever before, but most importantly more relevant and timely. The company’s dedicated team of professionals have worked on several end user security applications meaning that Visio Ingenii’s experts are fully aware of security and information challenges from
day-to-day retail, to senior leaders in intelligence and combat troops on the front line. This valuable experience, combined with years of research enables Visio Ingenii to build innovative software and hardware solutions to combat today’s challenging vision conditions. Receiving the Security Industry E Magazine award reaffirms
VISION BASED SECURITY SOLUTIONS 2014 AWARD WINNERS Visio Ingenii’s commitment to improving security the world over. Commenting on the company’s recent success, Vision Ingenii’s Dr. Nagachetan Bangalore (CEO and Chief Scientist) said: “We have started 2014 with an exciting journey of productising and commercialising years of innovative machine vision research into products that can be used in various industries and platforms.” In recent years, national and public security has become more of a major concern for many countries. Visio Ingenii understands that the delivery of accurate and robust solutions are the most critical aspects in providing an effective and comprehensive computer vision solution. The company’s state-of-theart integrated technologies provide cutting edge solutions to complex machine vision requirements and can be tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of industry applications, including: Detection & Monitoring Real time detection and monitoring of indoor/outdoor suspicious activities in both day and night scenarios, covering the movement of vehicles, people, fire and smoke. Intelligent Object Tracking & Recognition
VISION BASED SECURITY SOLUTIONS 2014 AWARD WINNERS Multiple object recognition tolerant to varying lighting conditions and cluttered environments; augmented reality and face recognition systems. Tracking Visio Ingenii technology tracks dynamic objects on both dynamic and static cameras tolerant to varying lighting and weather conditions - rigid object, people and face recognition capabilities. Visio Ingenii also provide revolutionary solutions in Border security, Automatic video surveillance, Security forensics, Behaviour analysis, Automatic image analysis, People tracking and much more. Explaining the company’s evolution, Dr. Bangalore said: “At VI, we believe in ‘Being Different’. We started as a modest team of machine vision researchers and developers with a passion to prioritise accuracy and reliability in our products and solutions along with a focus on matching niche customer requirements.” With practical know-how, core intellectual property and integrated framework, Visio Ingenii’s end-toend solutions, designed to support any industrial needs have led to the company’s excellent track record for
VISION BASED SECURITY SOLUTIONS 2014 AWARD WINNERS providing solutions for high end mission critical and technically complex projects. A small medium sized enterprise, Visio Ingenii are able to respond quickly to customer queries and can even provide no obligation free consultation time to better understand the project requirements and specifications of their customers. The company believes in the importance of establishing meaningful collaborations and have formed partnerships with customers and global suppliers in order to assist the company in the delivery of enduring integrated solutions to key industries worldwide. Visio Ingenii also support organisations with their research and development activities. “We have an extended R&D team assisting in transforming concepts and bespoke customer requirements into commercial prototypes and products” concluded Dr. Bangalore.
For further information, please call Visio Ingenii on 01582 488 763, email enquiries to contactus@visioingenii.com or visit the company’s website at www.visioingenii.com
Luton-based company, Visio Ingenii holds a passion to introduce next generation machine vision based technology solutions to the defence, security, transportation, medical and retail industries. Translating to Vision Intelligence in Latin, Visio Ingenii’s chief objective is to improve security and safety, making intelligence more powerful than every before but most importantly more relevant and timely. The company’s dedicated team of professionals have worked
on several end user security applications meaning that Visio Ingenii’s experts are fully aware of security and information challenges from day-to-day retail, to senior leaders in intelligence and combat troops on the front line. This valuable experience, combined with years of research enables Visio Ingenii to build innovative software and hardware solutions to challenge today’s vision conditions. In recent years, national and public security have become more of a
major concern for many countries. Visio Ingenii understands that the delivery of accurate and robust solutions are the most critical aspects in providing an effective and comprehensive computer vision solution. The company’s state-of-the-art integrated technologies provide cutting edge solutions to complex machine vision requirements and can be tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of industry applications, including:
Detection & Monitoring
Real time detection and monitoring of indoor/outdoor suspicious activities in both day and night scenarios, covering the movement of vehicles, people, fire and smoke. Intelligent Object Tracking & Recognition
Visio Ingenii also provide revolutionary solutions in Border security, Automatic video surveillance, Security forensics, Behaviour analysis, Automatic image analysis, People tracking and much more. With practical know-how, core intellectual property and integrated framework, Visio Ingenii’s end-to-end solutions, designed to support any industrial needs have led to the company’s excellent track record for providing solutions for high end mission critical and technically complex projects. A small medium sized enterprise, Visio Ingenii are able to respond quickly to customer queries and can even provide no obligation free consultation time to better understand the project requirements and specifications of their customers. The company believe in the importance of establishing meaningful collaborations and have formed partnerships with customers and global suppliers in order to assist the company in the delivery of enduring integrated solutions to key industries worldwide. Visio Ingenii also support organisations with their research and development activities.
Multiple object recognition tolerant to varied lighting conditions and cluttered environments; augmented reality and face recognition systems. Tracking
Visio Ingenii technology tracks dynamic objects on both dynamic and static cameras tolerant to varying lighting and weather conditions - rigid object, people and face recognition capabilities.
For further information, please call Visio Ingenii on 01582 488 763, email enquiries to contactus@visioingenii.com or visit the company’s website at www.visioingenii.com