Security and Surveillance Lenses from Universe Kogaku
Universe’s CCTV lenses are ideally suited for the Security and Surveillance industry. Whether a precision optical lens is needed for traditional security lens assemblies, like CCTV cameras, or the product design calls for the latest in biometric scanning lenses, Universe has a lens for many security and surveillance applications. Our pinhole lenses are a standard surveillance lens assembly. The following lenses are designed to work well for Security and Surveillance needs, as well as digital photography, barcode scanning, machine vision and video conferencing applications. At the bottom of this page you will find excerpts of Optics News articles related to the Security and Surveillance industry. If you are looking for a specific lens for your security or surveillance optical project, please contact us for personal assistance from a design engineer.
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Designing Optical Solutions for 360° Surveillance and Embedded Security Systems
Building Smarter Vision Systems Starts with the Right Lens If you’re engineering a 360° surveillance camera or embedded security device, image quality begins—not with the housing or processor—but with the [...]
Precision Lenses That Drive Smarter Traffic Monitoring Systems
As cities evolve and infrastructure grows more interconnected, traffic monitoring has become a cornerstone of urban planning, road safety, and law enforcement. From toll booths to intelligent traffic systems and [...]
Custom Lens Assemblies for Panoramic and Surveillance Imaging Systems
As demand grows for 360-degree imaging and wide-area surveillance, system integrators and product engineers face challenges in optical performance, resolution, and compatibility. At Universe Kogaku, we don’t build the cameras—we [...]
The Critical Role of Precision Lenses in Theodolites and Surveying Systems
In the world of surveying and precision measurement, accuracy starts with optics. While manufacturers build the theodolites and total stations used on job sites across construction, engineering, and infrastructure projects, [...]
What Lenses are Used for Airport Equipment and Machines?
Going through airport security is not something that anyone enjoys. The long lines and anxiety over a potentially misplaced bottle of water are enough to make many people dread flying. [...]
How Businesses Use Lenses In ATM Systems
Like most regular cameras, ATMs capture everything in front of them during ATM transactions. The cameras store all recorded pictures or videos on the ATM, and most also transmit the [...]
Rely On ATM/Bank Cameras For Security
The following points are some of the primary advantages of bank security cameras. Security is a top priority for banks, and specialized security cameras effectively thwart numerous threats. [...]
Lenses for Aviation And Aerospace
An extensive range of optical components provides significant benefits in harsh aerospace, industrial, and military applications because of their high resistance to vibration, shock, temperature, and water ingress. However, the [...]
How Home Security Cameras Keep Your Family Safe
The world has many threats that endanger your family’s security. That’s why it’s worth investing in state-of-the-art home security. It empowers homeowners with more granular control over their safety and [...]
Explosives Detection
Rapid explosive detection is vital to protecting lives as well as significant damage to the property. In the past, there have been a number of methods to identify explosives and [...]
Narcotics Detection
Tens of thousands of international travelers cross secure U.S. borders on a day to day basis, with just about every one of them carrying some sort of hand baggage. It [...]
Camera Shy Black Holes
In April astronomers announced what is quite possibly, the most extraordinary piece of scientific news ever. They had at last captured an image of the unobservable, always illusive, black hole – cosmic abyss so deep [...]
Security Scanning Program CLEAR
Two decades ago, going through airport security was a simple process. You simply got into “the” line, put your stuff through the x-ray machine, and walked through the metal detector. Today, the process is much more [...]
License Plate Readers
The use of license plate readers is increasing in popularity with police and other law enforcement agencies to find stolen cars and catch up with people with expired licenses or active warrants. And when they’re [...]
Types Of Surveillance Cameras
They are everywhere. Security cameras seem to be on every corner, at entry ways at shopping centers, in parking lots, private homes, and businesses. Government agencies, private businesses, and homeowners know that there are now [...]
CMOS Image Sensors
Virtually all digital and video cameras use CMOS image sensors. In the past two decades, numerous advances have been made in this type of imaging technology. Now, CMOS image sensors are beginning to be made [...]
3D Printing And Terahertz Radiation
Terahertz radiation is used in a wide variety of applications including airport security checks and material analysis in a lab. The wavelength of this radiation is significantly larger than the wavelength of visible light, as [...]
Ultraviolet Lenses
Ultraviolet lenses are used in many focusing, collimation, or laser applications that operate within the ultraviolet spectrum. They are optical lenses that consist of a single, or multiple elements that have been designed for optimal [...]
Understanding Computer Vision
Someone throws a ball. The other person catches it. Simple, right? No, not really. This is one of the most complex processes science has ever attempted to comprehend, let alone recreate. Inventing a machine to [...]
Photoelectric Sensors
Sometimes known as photo eyes, photoelectric sensors emit a beam of light that is used to detect the presence or absence of items and equipment, or changes in surface conditions. When the emitted light is [...]
LWIR (Long-Wave Infrared Imaging) Becomes More Accessible
We live in a day and age where new technologies are being brought to the market at what seems like lightening speed. One advancement leads to another, and then another. [...]
Passive Infrared Sensors
The use of motion detectors to keep an eye on the public has been increasing steadily over the past decade. These ubiquitous pyroelectric eyes (passive infrared sensors) can detect everything [...]
Using CCTV At The Workplace And At Home
One of the most popular and cost-effective ways of providing security in the home and place of work is with CCTV cameras and equipment. CCTV cameras can act as a very successful deterrent to [...]
Images From Space
Globally, the fascination with deep space began in the early 1900’s. Since them, imaging satellites are launched in an ongoing effort to see space more accurately. The images from space [...]
Robotic Appliances Simplifying The Home
More and more robots and artificial intelligence is being seen throughout the world of technology. Alongside smartphones; fitness accessories and robotic appliances are showing up. Personal, practical and well-designed, these [...]