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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: VxWorks
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 December 2003
RTOS finds home in IR camera core
BAE Systems has chosen Wind River's VxWorks RTOS as the foundation for its SCC500 Series of infra-red camera cores.
BAE Systems has chosen Wind River's VxWorks RTOS as the foundation for its SCC500 Series of infra-red (IR) camera cores The camera cores are designed to convert infra-red energy (heat) emitted from objects in the field of view into a viewable image, providing enhanced vision independent of darkness, smoke and other common obscurants
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This capability makes the camera cores an applicable tool for applications such as fire fighting, border surveillance and military night vision enhancement.
The camera is the latest in a ten-year collaboration between Wind River and BAE Systems to produce safe, secure and reliable products for the aerospace and defence industry.
"Wind River offers highly capable toolsets, standard embedded modules, and processor portability that enable BAE Systems to efficiently implement unique features for different customers within our standard products", said Roy Rumbaugh, IR Imaging Systems (IRIS) SCC500 Series Programme Manager for BAE Systems.
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"Wind River's technology provides a key building block in our revolutionary, architectural foundation to provide reconfigurable, interchangeable camera cores with variable features, performance and image resolutions".
The SCC500 Series IR camera uses custom, high-efficiency, IR-specific video processing hardware coupled with a commercial processor, which runs the Wind River's commercial RTOS.
The IR camera is designed for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that are developing systems to serve the fire fighting, surveillance, unattended sensors, unmanned vehicles, machine vision, robotics, process monitoring and thermography markets.
"Wind River has a long history of providing reliable and secure solutions to the aerospace and defence market, and continues to sharpen its focus on this market", said Steve Blackman, Director of Marketing for Wind River's Aerospace and Defence Business Unit.
"We see this new camera from BAE Systems as a critical tool in securing the safety of fire fighters, military personnel and regular citizens both domestically and around the world, and we are proud that Wind River's technology could play such an important part in bringing this product to the market".
In addition to the SCC500 camera, Wind River and BAE Systems have also collaborated on projects including BAE Systems' JCAD ChemSentry chemical detection system, which provides local detection and early warning of chemical agents and toxic industrial chemicals for military and first responder personnel.
The JCAD ChemSentry was developed using Wind River's Tornado development environment and runs the VxWorks RTOS and Wind River's network management software.
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