Quebec City (QC) – May 21, 2009, Optosecurity Inc., announced $2.2 million dollars total cumulative support, over three fiscal years, from the Canada Revenue Agency.
The support was provided in the form of research and development tax credits, from the RS&RD program. The Canada Revenue Agency RS&RD program is designed to support Canadian businesses meet their strategic goals, in this case, it aided Optosecurity accelerate research and development objectives to meet business commercial opportunities with new clients.
An in-line solution, the OptoScreener provides 100% pre-board s creening without adding secondary processes, delays, or changes to security checkpoints.
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Today, evolving threats and an ever-expanding list of prohibited items compound security challenges. The universal challenge facing security professionals today is improving threat detection against evolving threats without disrupting or restricting the throughput at the checkpoint.
Optosecurity Inc. addresses today’s security challenges with the OptoScreener®, the world’s first inline upgrade to existing detection X-ray systems that automatically detects weapons and weapon parts and identifies dangerous liquids and gels.
As a universal add-on device, the OptoScreener improves security by providing critical information about potential threats, wherever X-ray systems are deployed.
—ACI EUROPE AIRPORT BUSINESS, JANUARY 2007
“The device (OptoScreener) also provides automated in-line threat detection, requires no physical changes to checkpoint security infrastructure, and can be rapidly deployed with minimal operator training. (OptoScreener) is the world’s first in-line liquid threat detection system capable of interpreting standard X-ray tomography to identify potential liquid threats without opening containers.”
—JANE’S AIRPORT REVIEW, MARCH 2007