ISRAELI COMPANY INVENTS DEVICE THAT CAN SEE THROUGH WALLS

Jerusalem, Jun 12 (PTI) - Military and rescue operations
around the globe will now get a tad easier with the invention
of a radar that can see through walls.

An Israeli firm, Camero, has developed this technology
and already sold it to several army and police forces. The
company feels that the device can be beneficial for special
unit soldiers or for human operations like locating people
trapped in burning buildings, the daily Haaretz reported.

"The idea of seeing through walls has been around since
the 1960s, but modern technology is now ripe enough to enable
it to happen," Camero's technology director Amir Beeri said.

"When we established the company in 2004, we intended to
develop sufficiently high vision resolution to allow an
untrained user to see through a wall," Beeri said.

Camero's unique radar utilises Ultra Wide Band (U.W.B.),
a technology that has come of age recently and with the use of
special algorithms can process data picked up by the detector
to give a reasonable image of anything behind the wall.

The system made by its competitor, Time Domain, lacks
imaging algorithms and is able to reveal only whether there is
someone on the other side of the wall, the report said.

The firm's earlier version of the system weighed about 10
kgs and was too clumsy for use, but the new system is smaller,
light in weight and meant for use as a quick-to-use tactical
tool.

The system is capable of penetrating various types of
walls, but not solid metal ones like the walls of shipping
containers.

The firm's C.E.O., Aharon Aharon, is optimistic about the
future of the technology and says, "Like the Israeli army's
night vision system, which was once an expensive product and
eventually came into broad, general use, we hope that our
radar too will become standard issue for all military units."