DataDot machine vision reader
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DataDot machine vision reader
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Summary of the technology
DataDot machine vision reader is an imaging system that is furnished with a high zoom lens, machine vision cameras and optical character recognition (OCR) software for detecting and reading the asset numbers on microdots.
Applications
Security
Technology Field
Defence, Peace, Safety and Security
Business Opportunity
Technology available for licensing. A partnering opportunity. An investment opportunity in further development.
Technology Description
The DataDot Machine Vision Reader automatically detects DataDot or micro dots on an A4 control sheet, in a video stream, and reads the serial numbers off the dots using optical character recognition (OCR).
Benefits & Advantages
The technology reduces the read error of asset IDs on microdots. Facilitates the identification and possible recovery of stolen assets. Passive. Unobtrosive ID solution when compared to the market leading RFID solution.
Inventors
Derek Griffiths, Asheer Bachoo, Ipeleng Mathebula, Jaco Cronje, Bernardt Duvenhage
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About CSIR
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, commonly known as the CSIR, is a world-class African research and development organisation established through an Act of Parliament in 1945. The CSIR undertakes directed, multidisciplinary research and technological innovation that contributes to the improved quality of life of South Africans.
The CSIR’s shareholder is the South African Parliament, held in proxy by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation.
CSIR vision
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CSIR mission
Collaboratively innovating and localising technologies while providing knowledge solutions for the inclusive and sustainable advancement of industry and society.
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CSIR values statement:
Our beliefs, principles and the impact we wish to make to improve the quality of life of South Africans are EPIC. Team CSIR pursues Excellence, celebrates People, personifies Integrity, and welcomes Collaboration.
Our mandate
“The objects of the CSIR are, through directed and particularly multi-disciplinary research and technological innovation, to foster, in the national interest and in fields which in its opinion should receive preference, industrial and scientific development, either by itself or in co-operation with principals from the private or public sectors, and thereby to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the people of the Republic, and to perform any other functions that may be assigned to the CSIR by or under this Act.”
(Scientific Research Council Act 46 of 1988, amended by Act 71 of 1990)
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