Melbourne company Sentient Vision Systems is planning further international expansion following some impressive contract and test wins.
That includes selection by the US Department of Defense for Foreign Comparative Technology trials for the US Marine Corps. The company also sees big international opportunities for sales of its advanced maritime surveillance technology.
Sentient founder and Managing Director Dr Paul Boxer the company was in best ever position to consolidate its pioneering role and further develop exciting product innovations including the new ViDAR Surface which is being launched at INDO-PACIFIC 2022.
ViDAR stands for Visual Detection And Ranging, and is a means of processing imagery from an Electro-Optic or Infrared (EO/IR) sensor to detect objects invisible or nearly invisible to a human operator or to a conventional radar. That could be a human survivor in the water or a stealthy watercraft. It does that by using AI and machine learning to detect persistent pixels in the imagery stream.
A ViDAR-equipped UAS or manned aircraft can deliver coverage of a search area up to 300 times greater than one without ViDAR.
Boxer said in this dynamic technology sector, no-one can afford to stand still. “That’s why R and D will always be a key driver for us and that demands an investment in top calibre people across the organisation,” he said in a company release.
Sentient’s global expansion program is being led by Director of Business Development Paul Harris, previously Director Sales of Protected Vehicles for Thales Australia. “Sentient now has the opportunity to scale on a truly global basis and become a champion of Australian technology innovation,” Harris said.
“This is an exciting time to join this business and at a strategically important juncture for Australia across a spectrum of disruptive and innovative technology applications in defence and civilian markets.”