The technology transfer office of the university has won a TechConnect Global Innovation award for its concealed weapons detector.
Ariel University Research and Development company, the technology transfer company of the Israeli university, has won a TechConnect Global Innovation award for Millisensor, its concealed weapons detector. More than sixty institutions and commercialised technologies are receiving an award this year.
The company will be recognised during the TechConnect National Innovation Summit in Washington, DC, which will run from June 15 to 18. It placed in the top 20% of all submitted technologies as ranked by the TechConnect Corporate and Investment Partner Committee.
Millisensor came out of Ariel’s homeland security technology, a new field of cutting-edge products designed to help protect against terrorist threats to safety. The sensor is a passive people screening and concealed weapons detection system that uses millimetre-waves capable of detecting both metallic and non-metallic objects on the human body. It is portable, has automatic real-time detection and identification abilities and does not irradiate or intrude on the privacy of the person being scanned. The sensor demonstrates a detection probability in the lab environment close to 100% at a distance of up to three metres for the tested samples of explosives and metal objects hidden under cloth.
The TechConnect awards recognise potential positive impact technology submitted by global academic technology transfer offices, early-stage companies, small business innovative research awardees, and government and corporate research laboratories. They are split into two categories – national and global – with national award recipients having a clear US federal funding history, and global award recipients lacking this.
