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Splinternet Holdings Announces Entry into Anti-Terrorism
Market
Agreement with Vidiation enables unique dirty bomb detection
offering which leverages Splinternet’s hardware and web-based
network
December 11, 2007, Norwalk, CT -
Splinternet Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: SLNH), announced that it is
entering the anti-terrorism market with a new radiation detection
device and monitoring system which will provide early warning of
the presence of radioactive materials of the type feared to be
usable in dirty bombs.
Together
with its development of a networked radiation detection
device, Splinternet has entered into a cross-licensing and
selling agreement with privately-held Vidiation, LLC, a
development-stage company with a revolutionary technology to
identify radioactive materials by analyzing streams of data
from video surveillance systems. Vidiation launched its
Vidiation-Radiation Analytics Detection System or
V-RADS™ at the Fall 2007 ASIS conference, and plans to
enter the market shortly. (www.vidiation.com)
Vidiation
is the developer of a software-based technology that detects
the presence of radiation when it comes in range of a video
surveillance camera. The gamma rays from threats such as
“dirty bombs” strike an image sensor in the camera
causing a detectable pattern of interference. As the data from
the camera is examined by Vidiation’s V-RADS software,
this radiation pattern is detected and an ALERT is sent to the
designated monitoring station. This is strictly a software
solution, which doesn’t require modification to the
cameras.
The
Splinternet device is more sensitive than the software/video
camera solution, but it does not provide a video image of the
monitored site, as the Vidiation system does. The two systems
are wholly compatible and complementary.
Vidiation’s
software solution dovetails with Splinternet’s existing
VoIP infrastructure, and requires no additional commitment of
capital or retrofitting of Splinternet’s existing
network. By leveraging its VoIP expertise, Splinternet has
developed a small hardware-based radiation detection device to
work in conjunction with Vidiation’s software by
functioning as a smart networked radiation detection node.
Like Splinternet’s VoIP solution, the combined
Splinternet/Vidiation products will network using Ethernet
technology and will be managed via a local LAN or the World
Wide Web.
Splinternet's
President, James Ackerly said, "Splinternet and Vidiation have
each developed ways to monitor large areas for the existence
of gamma ray-emitting substances, and the realization that our
two techniques are helpful to each other, rather than
competitive has led us to the new business arrangement we are
announcing today. We are pleased to enter the “War on
Terrorism” in this way, as the availability of wide area
detection systems will serve as a deterrent to those who would
hope to sneak a dirty bomb into an economically or politically
strategic location. We have been attracted to the
anti-terrorism space for some time and believe that with
Vidiation we have a compelling entry into the market. We
believe there is significant demand worldwide for this
service, which offers customers a new layer of protection from
improper transport of high energy materials.
Ackerly
continued, “We have tested the prototype combined system
in real-world medical facilities and are pleased with the
results. We will work with Vidiation toward achieving
government validation, which we expect will be realized in
early 2Q08, at which time we plan to begin aggressively
selling the systems. In fact, the US G
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