Jabil Company has announced that its innovative omnidirectional sensor has won the Best of Sensors 2021 award in the Optics and Cameras category. The award recognizes and highlights cutting-edge advances and achievements that are advancing the sensor industry.
Jabil Optics’ innovative time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensor offers, with its industry-leading 270° x 60° field-of-view (FOV), an advantage over existing solutions on the market. The narrow fields of view of conventional ToF sensors force industrial mobile robotic platforms to integrate several sensors to avoid collisions.
Jabil details that in contrast to the conventional solution of using multiple ToF sensors, the extremely wide field of view of the omnidirectional sensor eliminates the need to integrate multiple sensors and subsequently the complexity of joining multiple point clouds and the challenges of maintaining alignment and calibration of multiple sensors. The innovative solid-state design is one of several sensing systems that Jabil’s optical business unit (Jabil Optics) is designing to support lower-cost autonomous mobile robotic and collaborative robotic platforms.
Charlene Soucy, senior director of Sensors Converge says that After reviewing all of the Best of Sensors award submissions, it is clear that the sensor industry continues to thrive with new and innovative solutions. Ian Blasch, senior director of business development at Jabil Optics adds that We see this award as external validation of the high quality design capabilities of our design and engineering teams. The omnidirectional sensor is one of many novel sensors we are designing for our robotics and industrial customers.
The awards program was created to highlight the year’s best innovations, technologies, equipment and individuals in the sensor industry. Submissions were judged based on value to the marketplace, the impact of the problems it solves or the problems it addresses, and the uniqueness of the design. Judges for the Best of Sensors awards were Jack Gold, J. Gold Associates, LLC; Roger Grace, Roger Grace Associates; Matt Hamblen, Fierce Electronics; Catherine Liao, Blumio; and Brian Zahnstecher, PowerRox.
Jabil Optics’ designers, engineers and researchers specialize in solving complex optical problems for their customers in the 3D sensing, augmented and virtual reality, action camera, automotive, industrial and healthcare markets. In addition, Jabil Optics’ customers leverage the product design, process development, testing, in-house active alignment, supply chain management and manufacturing expertise of Kasalis, a technology division within Jabil.
