Wide Area Surveillance Platform (WASP)

  • CSIR
  • From South Africa
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  • Innovative Products and Technologies

Summary of the technology

Method to generate real-time high resolution imagery of a 360 scene. The data from multiple high resolution digital cameras is stitched into a single live panoramic/hemispherical image. 
It is possible to zoom in on areas of the image to view more detail.

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Applications

Security, Defence

Technology Field

Defence, Peace, Safety and Security

Business Opportunity

Technology available for licensing. Suitable for SME or companies such as RRS and Protoclea.

Technology Description

Method to generate real-time high resolution imagery of a 360 scene. The data from multiple high resolution digital cameras is stitched into a single live panoramic/hemispherical image. It is possible to zoom in on areas of the image to view more detail.

Benefits & Advantages

It is possible to view a real-time image of a very wide surveillance area. Other benefits are the use of a single display for the image and the possibility of using a low-cost GPU to do a large amount of the data processing. The use of a GPU negates the requirement for very expensive custom image processing hardware.

Inventors

Asheer Bachoo, Jason de Villiers, JP Delport, Yazeed Schloss,

Related Keywords

  • camera
  • platform
  • Defence
  • Peace
  • Safety and Security

About CSIR

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, commonly known as the CSIR, is a world-class African research and development organisation established through an Act of Parliament in 1945. The CSIR undertakes directed, multidisciplinary research and technological innovation that contributes to the improved quality of life of South Africans.
The CSIR’s shareholder is the South African Parliament, held in proxy by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation.

CSIR vision
We are accelerators of socio-economic prosperity in South Africa through leading innovation.

CSIR mission
Collaboratively innovating and localising technologies while providing knowledge solutions for the inclusive and sustainable advancement of industry and society.

CSIR values
CSIR values statement:
Our beliefs, principles and the impact we wish to make to improve the quality of life of South Africans are EPIC. Team CSIR pursues Excellence, celebrates People, personifies Integrity, and welcomes Collaboration.

Our mandate
“The objects of the CSIR are, through directed and particularly multi-disciplinary research and technological innovation, to foster, in the national interest and in fields which in its opinion should receive preference, industrial and scientific development, either by itself or in co-operation with principals from the private or public sectors, and thereby to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the people of the Republic, and to perform any other functions that may be assigned to the CSIR by or under this Act.”
(Scientific Research Council Act 46 of 1988, amended by Act 71 of 1990)

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