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Blighter, a designer and manufacturer of ground-based electronic-scanning radars specialized for border and coastal security, has released BlighterNexus, an AI-assisted connectivity and processing hub.
BlighterNexus significantly reduces the training and operational demands on systems integrators, allowing a smoother incorporation of Blighter’s smart cognitive ITAR-free 2D, 3D and 4D radars into command and control (C2) systems.
The company claims that cost savings of up to twenty percent can be achieved by both integrators and customers using AI-assisted software to automate configuration, setup, and adjustment of multiple radars to deliver peak performance even in challenging weather conditions.
The BlighterNexus AI-assisted Hub contains approximately thirty licensable modules, including ‘service’, ‘sensor-connector’, ‘C2-connector’, and ‘application’ modules. These modules offer various functions, such as automation and sensor integration. For instance, sensor connector modules enable low latency integration of cameras, radio direction finding (RDF) equipment for drone detection, and other geo sensors. This provides integrators with a comprehensive detect-track-identify solution.
BlighterNexus includes a module to securely record all sensor data for real-time playback and/or post-mission forensic analysis, and an AI system for target classification. The Fat-Pipe module enables all radar data to be exported from BlighterNexus into an external AI system, allowing integrators to fuse and analyze data from multiple sensors.
BlighterNexus Hub is pre-installed on an industrial PC for easy setup and flexible licensing and support. It also delivers a unified 360-degree radar feed to either the C2 system or other BlighterNexus Hubs.
Blighter radars are designed for rugged, fixed, mobile, and on-the-move operations, and feature Low-Probability-of-Intercept (LPI) waveforms. They are trusted by organizations worldwide, including the UK Ministry of Defence for forward operating base (FOB) protection, the South Korean Army for border surveillance, the United States Air Force for drone detection, and the UK’s major airports for perimeter protection.
Mark Radford, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at Blighter, commented, “BlighterNexus is a groundbreaking product that will simplify radar to C2 system integration. Our aim is to become the integrator’s friend by providing a modular, scaleable and upgradeable platform that will not only be simple to integrate, simple to operate but will also optimize target detection capabilities while reducing our customers’ training and operational costs.”
Radford continued, “Our patented electronic-scanning radars are already deployed in over 40 countries to protect national borders, ports and harbours as well as critical infrastructure sites. The launch of BlighterNexus consolidates our position as the radar supplier of choice for integrators wanting to create layered multi-sensor surveillance systems to detect, track and classify small and slow-moving threats in complex environments.”
