Thermoteknix’ award, under the Innovation category acknowledges the success it has achieved through outstanding innovation with the groundbreaking range of MIRICLE® thermal imaging cameras over the last three years. Thermoteknix previously won The Queen’s Award for Export Achievement in 1998, and is one of only a very few companies to have ever won Queen’s Awards in two different categories.
Dr. Richard Salisbury, founder and Managing Director of Thermoteknix Systems Ltd. says that the success of Thermoteknix is due to the highly innovative way in which the company approached the challenges in developing high performance, miniature, thermal imaging cameras designed for a multitude of applications in aerospace, defence, surveillance and industrial applications.
Thermoteknix is proud to announce the release of the MIRICLE 110K-25 thermal imaging camera incorporating new 25 micron detector technology with optional super-sensitivity modes in a smaller, lighter package. The MIRICLE 110K-25 is a new member of the MIRICLE 110K 384 x 288 miniature infrared camera and core family, adding to the existing 35 micron detector range. Both 35 and 25 micron cameras use 384x288 un-cooled microbolometer focal plane array (FPA) detectors and are sensitive in the longwave Infrared (7-14µm) band. The MIRICLE 110K-35 and MIRICLE 110K-25 operate without Thermo-electric stabilization (TEC-less) and are also available with Thermoteknix unique proprietary shutterless MIRICLE XTi models for uninterrupted, instant-on, high performance thermal imaging.
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd has just celebrated 25 years of innovation in infrared technology with a major event drawing attendees from all corners of the globe. An international two day sales meeting was held at the Thermoteknix Conference Facility at the company’s HQ Teknix House in Cambridge, England, attended by Sales Agents from many countries; including Egypt, India, Philippines, Singapore, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Lebanon, South Africa, Pakistan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. The meeting included product presentations and demonstrations from all key Thermoteknix Sales Managers and culminated in a Grand Gala Dinner at the University Arms Hotel in Cambridge - to which all Sales Agents, Thermoteknix staff, key customers and suppliers were invited and over 100 people attended.
Thermoteknix has won the ‘Small Innovative Company of the Year’ trophy at the Innovation & Design Excellence (iDEA) Awards. The prestigious awards, organised by Cranfield School of Management and the magazines Eureka and New Electronics were presented at The Park Lane Hilton Hotel in London on September 21st at a luncheon attended by over 400 people. The presentations were hosted by writer and broadcaster Frances Edmonds who told the audience that ‘Thermoteknix use a range of innovative technologies and methods to hold its own against much bigger overseas competitors’. The company was selected for the iDEA award following a full day’s assessment at the company’s Cambridge, England, headquarters by a judging team led by Eureka magazine editor, Lou Reade and Marek Szwejczewski, Senior Research Fellow in Operations Management at the University of Cranfield.
Thermoteknix has raised the bar to new heights in launching the world’s first Alpha Silicon based Focal Plane Array thermal imaging camera with shutterless XTi technology. The MIRICLE® 110KS with XTi is an ultra-compact uncooled (unstabilized) solid-state high resolution infrared camera delivering ‘Never Blind™’ thermal imaging. The camera is designed without a shutter or any moving parts to interrupt vision at critical moments and is unaffected by shock or vibration.
Continuous high resolution thermal imaging from the very instant the camera is switched on with no image deterioration with time or ambient temperature change. The removal of the shutter and associated motor, gears and control mean that MIRICLE® cameras with XTi™ technology are also smaller, lighter and lower power consuming, a major benefit to all portable and size critical applications.
In 2005, Thermoteknix became technology partners and official sponsors of the prestigious Cheever Racing IndyCar Series team alongside Cisco Systems.
Cheever Racing have installed state-of-the-art Thermoteknix infrared cameras on their race cars to monitor tyre temperature performance which will gain vital seconds over the competition.
The infrared cameras and technology, developed by Thermoteknix, and also being used in Formula 1, employs highly ruggedised miniature infrared cameras relaying data wirelessly to the pit crew who use the information to make adjustments to optimise race car performance. By remotely monitoring the tyre temperatures and heat distribution which vary dramatically around the circuit, Cheever can adjust the car set up to optimize performance, tyre wear and plan race strategy.