Prashant Chawla
San Jose, CA (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
SIStems Laboratories
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Location:
San Jose
Industry:
Engineering
Year Founded:
1998
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
SIStems Laboratories
SIStems Laboratories produces high quality gyro-stabilized aerial camera turrets and commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) systems designed to capture aerial imagery.
SIStems had distinguished itself in the market, supplying turret systems to several elite government agencies including the US Department of Defense, Canadian Search and Rescue, and Switzerland Civil Defense. Leveraging its creativity in this market, SIStems plans to pioneer a new electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) turret system for a wide variety of imaging and target tracking and acquisition applications. Aerial imaging applications are numerous in the defense, law enforcement, search and rescue, and news and entertainment industries. In the defense industry, camera turrets are an essential payload aboard various aircrafts, which provides high quality surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for increase situational awareness. Law enforcement utilizes camera turret systems to track suspects to facilitate locating lost victims and to visually access inaccessible or hazardous areas. The news and entertainment industry operate camera turret systems for aerial film photography and traffic monitoring. SIStems intends to target the applications described above through the implementation of camera turret systems on full-scale aircraft as well as unmanned vehicles. SIStems seeks to expand these existing markets by introducing the uniquely designed camera turret system entitled ORA. The ORA will fulfill the market demand by providing a camera turret which, combined with its original drive system, is able to maximize payload capacity and adapt to various payload configurations.