LED-based lighting unit for VIS/VNIR spectral range made by inno-spec
LED-lighting now available in spectroscopy too
LED technology now available in spectral imaging too
Safer – more efficient – more cost effective – less maintenance
Inno-spec secures their position with new technological market lead
Regardless of whether analysing blood for medical purposes, recycling plastics, detecting explosives or measuring layer thickness in thin film solar cells, the quality of the data and results generated by spectral imaging is largely dependent upon lighting. When conventional light sources meet their limits, the new magic formula is: LED.
With their new LED-based lighting unit for the VIS- and VNIR spectral range, the Nuremberg company inno-spec has achieved clear progress along the promising path of lighting development for automated image processing. The advantage of LED-based lighting: higher luminance and therefore an improvement in measured data, longer illuminant lifetime with lower energy consumption, lower service expenditures and increased stability. Additionally, safety equipment to impede overheating, and thereby avoid a fire hazard, will no longer be needed. While halogen illuminants are more robust and economically priced at the time of purchase, they cannot be adjusted to individual wavelengths like an LED light can and result in higher service expenditures due to the illuminant’s shorter lifespan. This new LED alternative makes it possible to generate light within the wavelength range that is needed.
“In general, fast camera applications with conventional illuminants or lighting units have already reached their limits in all fields, and lighting development is constantly a topic in automated image processing” says Oliver Grass, CEO of inno-spec GmbH.
For Grass, fully developed lighting units will also soon be among the components which play a significant role in a customer’s decision to purchase. inno-spec has been successful in achieving a clear market advantage with this enhancement in LED lighting technology for spectral imaging.
November 2009
Contact:
Oliver Grass, CEO, inno-spec GmbH
Nicola Socha, Press and Public Relations, inno-spec GmbH
