Growing demand for our nation’s police force to wear body
cameras has triggered an industry race to develop and deploy the most efficient
and wearable technologies possible. VOXX International Corp. subsidiary VOXX
Electronics Corp. is among the more recognizable names working to carve a spot
in this fast-growing industry.
VOXX Electronics’ most recent move was to sign a letter of
intent with S4 Worldwide, LLC (S4W) for exclusive rights to manufacture and
distribute the SENTRY BodyCam, a real-time HD/IR streaming wearable body camera
designed for military, police and law enforcement officials.
S4W’s SENTRY BodyCam provides real-time HD video
communications link for police and law enforcement officials for instant
awareness and visibility from any location with an embedded GPS chip. The
device is self-powered for up to 10 hours with portable lithium polymer battery
supply, automatic video upload via Wi-Fi, automated notification of activity
recorded, and extended onboard and remote archiving capabilities.
Of key importance here is the lithium polymer battery, which
emphasizes the need for body-cameras to be lightweight and flexible without
compromising durability and reliability. Developing a technology of this nature
is first nature for NEAH Power Systems, Inc., also making an entrance into the
body-cam industry and a vertical link to VOXX with a recently announced a key
partnership with S4W.
Neah Power’s fuel cell business is divided into three
product lines, each in various degrees of progression and potential commercial
partnerships: the patented and award winning, silicon-based Powerchip®
technology; BuzzBar™ and BuzzCell™ micro fuel cells, which use patent pending
low cost, differentiated technology; and Formira™, a reformer platform for direct
on-site generation of hydrogen gas.
With 14 patents and eight patents pending, NEAH Power has
incorporated its award-winning and patented PowerChip® fuel cell architecture
into the patent pending PowerChip® battery. To date, this new battery design
has exhibited unprecedented performance characteristics.
The teaming agreement with S4W enables both parties to
integrate NEAH Power’s power generation and energy storage technologies with
S4W’s industry leading security and defense products, including cutting-edge
body cameras currently marketed to police and security professionals around the
world. The agreement also allows the two companies to cooperatively market each
of the other’s products, thereby expanding the number of distribution and sales
channels available, driving one another’s capabilities and growing customer
bases with high capital efficiency.
NEAH Power will deliver commercial units of its patented
formic acid reformer fuel cell (Formira HOD™) and engineering units of its
PowerChip® fuel cell and silicon-chip based PowerChip® Battery. In addition,
NEAH Power will provide S4W with engineering and technical support to ensure
successful integration into S4W’s state-of-the-art body worn cameras.
In a news release announcing the agreement, Paul Sault, CEO
of S4W noted, “Our engineering staff and consultants immediately recognized the
transformative nature of NEAH Power’s Formira HOD™ and PowerChip® solutions,
specifically, when incorporated in a highly disruptive product like our Smart
Body Cam where continuous power is necessary for delivery of the ever-important
personnel and public safety benefits they provide. Upon first being introduced
to NEAH Power’s PowerChip® Battery, S4W was eager to become an early adopter.
While interviewing countless numbers of public safety personnel about what
features they wanted to see standard on a body camera, having the power
necessary to make it through an entire shift without battery recharging or
replacement, ranked very near the top.”
As NEAH Power moves closer to first commercial release of
the PowerChip® Battery, the company appears to be in the right place, at the
right time, with a potentially superior product that will cater to demand for
small, light and powerful energy storage solutions for today’s police force.
For more information, visit www.neahpower.com
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