The CAT EYE XLR is a fixed day/night vision system with high performance extra-long-range observational capacity, challenging the world of infrared and previously-available nighttime identification capabilities for defense and security forces.

This system renders a 24/7 flux of video in FULL HD, providing even more pixels and increasingly more visibility than its field-proven CAT EYE predecessors. CAT EYE XLR provides crisp, natural vision in the visible spectrum from daylight to the dark of night, making it possible to identify a vehicle or vessel at up to 20 kilometers away in pitch black or conditions of low visibility. Its daytime range of vision is 40 kilometers when the system is mounted at an elevated position.

Range-gated active imaging is the mode allowing for target identification in the dark of night and this is a technology in which LERITY possesses true expertise; Active Imaging also provides improved quality of vision in rain, snow, fog, heavy pollution or even sandstorms. The CAT EYE XLR’s 200 W laser sources, illuminating the target with one thousand pulses of light per millisecond, are divided into two fields of illumination: narrow and ultra-narrow, to allow for precise target designation.

All the features of a ruggedized and modern surveillance camera (gyro-stabilized turret, telemetry, GPS, recording and playback on control screen…) make this technological jewel an unparalleled asset for coastal surveillance, border surveillance or perimeter surveillance, and for the protection of critical infrastructure (nuclear parks, oil facilities, and more).

Since the launch of the product line in 2015, CAT EYE vision systems have received very positive feedback from homeland security and military forces. They are the subject of extensive testing campaigns and have been integrated as security solutions in several countries including France. The development of the CAT EYE XLR is supported by the French Navy. It is compatible with various sensors (Radar, AIS...) and can be integrated with various C2 command systems.

HEMISPACE, a hemispheric optronic imaging system, is a state-of-the-art vision system designed by LERITY for the 360° detection, localization and tracking of UAVs. Composed of 12 very high-resolution cameras evenly distributed across a half-sphere structure, HEMISPACE ensures full-sky coverage and the rapid detection of any flying object including micro-UAVs measuring 30 cm × 30 cm. Each of the 12 cameras can detect and track up to 10 targets, for a total of 120 possible threats processed by HEMISPACE. This allows for effective surveillance against the topical threat of both single drones and drone swarms, increasingly used for hostile purposes.

Multiple HEMISPACE systems can be combined in a network for increased coverage of the detection zone (up to 6 km), interconnected either by a private and secure IP network or by wireless communication (secure 3G/4G/5G). This mesh of HEMISPACE makes it possible to triangulate data in order to measure the distance of the potential drone threats from the site under HEMISPACE protection.

HEMISPACE can be implemented both at night and during the day, including in glaring sun, rain, fog and other difficult environments thanks to its robust sensors and high-performing algorithms. Two modes, passive and active, allow the operator working at night to choose when to illuminate the sky around the system with HEMISPACE’s embedded light sources (emitting flashes of light lasting just tenths of a millisecond, in order to preserve stealth). The entire system can be illuminated or the illumination can be implemented by sector.

HEMISPACE is operable 24/7 with a command and restitution GUI (Graphic User Interface). The operator chooses to view an image of the target by clicking on the dots representing the target. The real-time visualization of the target allows for quick decision making in the face of potential danger.

HEMISPACE is transportable and can be quickly deployed. It can also be connected to other sensors or equipment, making up a global system in the fight against drones. HEMISPACE is suitable for the protection of military sites but also for the protection of civilian infrastructure such as airports, industrial facilities, power plants, sporting complexes and more.

LERITY designs and manufactures HD cameras for installation on ground defense platforms or on surface vessels. Fitted with high-resolution sensors designed both for day (HD visible channel) and for night (intensified visible channel or low light level), LERITY cameras and vision systems are also extremely robust. Thanks to embedded image processing, LERITY systems provide reliable solutions that can be fully integrated into the client's architecture or structure.

Each year LERITY manufactures several hundred cameras, equipping the visible channels of major optronics equipment, installed on land vehicles or on fixed optronics platforms.

LERITY works with numerous vehicle manufacturers (Elbit, Renault Trucks, Nexter, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, THALES, Safran, etc.) and equips the main test centres of the DGA (the Defense procurement and technology agency of the French government).

LERITY's cameras are deployed on the vessels the SSM Scorpène, the SNLE Barracuda, the SSM Sauro and their export versions, the submarines of the French and Italian Navies, and have a daily presence in every sea of the world.