Ottawa, ON April 15, 2013 Neptec Technologies Corp. today announced that it is accepting orders for June delivery of the OPAL-360 series of 3D laser scanners, part of the OPAL 2.0 family of sensors, which it is exhibiting at SPAR International in Colorado Springs this week.
These rugged, multi-purpose 360 LiDAR sensors are uniquely suited for autonomous off-road vehicles and robotics applications in harsh environments. Unlike conventional laser scanners, OPAL 2.0 scanners can see through obscurants such as dust, smoke or fog and are packaged to withstand the physical abuse they will be subjected to in applications in the mining, oil and gas, and construction industries, and for defence and security applications.
The OPAL-360 is the first in a family of 3D sensors being developed at Neptec Technologies for intelligent
machine vision applications in harsh environments. It is environmentally sealed (IP67) with no externally
moving parts, has a -40C to +65C operating temperature range achieved without fans or heaters for
improved reliability, and is ruggedized to withstand significant vibration and shock levels. It delivers an
unprecedented combination of range, data density, acquisition speed and obscurant penetrating capability
all packaged for harsh environments. Different versions in the OPAL-360 series support ranges of 400m out to 3km at accuracies of one centimeter and data acquisition rates of up to 200,000 points per second.
More Information, Less Data!
3D sensors that can operate in harsh environments are one of two building blocks required to deliver 3D
machine vision solutions to the autonomous vehicle and robot vision based automation markets, said Mike
Sekerka, Chief Operating Officer at Neptec Technologies. But you also need the software intelligence to
extract actionable information from the sensor data in real-time and while moving.
OPAL 2.0 sensors are compatible with Neptecs 3DRi (3D Real-time intelligence) software toolkit, which
includes out-of-the-box features such as automatic change detection, automatic scan alignment, and object recognition and tracking. OPAL and 3DRi products make it easy to integrate optimized 3D machine vision solutions and reduce development and life cycle costs.
About Neptec Technologies Corp.
Neptec Technologies Corp. develops innovative 3D machine vision products for machine automation and
robotics applications in harsh environments. The company was founded in 2011 to commercialize space-
technologies developed by Neptec Design Group Ltd., an award-winning space flight technology company
and NASA prime contractor. Our first products are a family of obscurant-penetrating laser scanners (OPAL)
and a software development tool kit (3DRi) with advanced features such as automatic change detection and
object recognition and tracking. Together, these out-of-the-box building blocks make it easy to integrate
intelligent real-time machine vision applications on autonomous off-road vehicles, and for more familiar
LiDAR-based survey and measurement tasks in harsh environments. The company is located in Kanata,
Ontario. For more information, visit www.neptectechnologies.com .
Contacts:
Mike Dunbar, +1 (925) 336-0697 mdunbar@neptec.com
Philip Church, +1 (613) 599-7602 pchurch@neptec.com
Media Contact:
Sarah Mongrain, +1 (613) 599-7602 smongrain@neptec.com
