History of PhotoTelesis
Recognized as the leader in tactical imagery transmission, PhotoTelesis has a proud 19 year history of serving a diverse government customer base. Monochrome and color images captured by PhotoTelesis products and a variety of other imaging sensors can be transmitted over government secure radios, government satellite circuits, and commercial cellular and satellite radios.
Throughout its history, PhotoTelesis has been at the leading edge of technology development and application in the Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) area. With over 2,000 installed systems, the company's comprehensive products and system integration ability has provided image capture and transmission capability for:
- Defense
- Law Enforcement
- Intelligence
- Drug Interdiction
- International Peacekeeping
- Disaster Response
PhotoTelesis was founded in August 1985, incorporated in January 1987, and quickly achieved a strong name recognition within the DoD and Federal communities. In August of 1995 PhotoTelesis was acquired by Texas Instruments Defense Segment, and in June of 1997 Texas Instruments Defense and PhotoTelesis were purchased by Raytheon. In February of 1999, PhotoTelesis was repurchased by the original owner, and in June of 2000 created it's sister company, e-Watch.
PhotoTelesis has a long history of industry firsts including:
- Creating the first image transmission system used by law enforcement
PhotoPhone
- Transmitting images over cellular radios
CommRIT
- Transmitting images over secure tactical satellite
- Producing the first airborne secure tactical reconnaissance image transmission system
ATR
- Producing the first tactical reconnaissance image transmission systems
- Producing the first laptop image system (before the "laptops" of today existed)
ACT
- Being one of a few (no more than 10) industry companies to be invited to participate in the first government/industry NITF standards group with the DIA and CIA
- Being the first company ever certified under NITF Version 1.0 standard
- Producing a pocket cell-phone camera
Micro-RIT
- Deploying the first platform-wide (F-14) image transmission/reception capability
- Proposing use of imagery to secure airports and aircraft
- Pioneering IP video transmission
- Building a hand-held image transceiver
MMR
- Building an image transceiver on a card for embedded image transmission
- Deploying embedded
hand-held real-time image processing sensors
MSA
PhotoTelesis' comprehensive product line provides users with a full complement of hardware and software to support operations from various platforms, including:
- Man Portable Applications
- Aircraft Platforms
- Ground Vehicle Platforms
- Portable Base Stations
- Fixed Base Stations