Nucleus In development
Nucleus puts a sensor, a processor and a display into the form factor of a classic image intensifier tube. It fits wherever analog tubes fit today, makes the device digital and brings the data straight to the eye.
Nucleus has the form factor of a classic analog tube. It fits into the goggles, scopes and other devices already in service, turning past investments into digital capability.
Nucleus does not replace analog night vision. It complements it. Analog tubes come from a few manufacturers, in limited numbers and at a high price. A digital tube is built from components that can be produced at scale, so night vision can reach the whole team rather than a few.
The image exists only as light inside the tube. Nothing can be added to it, stored or shared.
The image is data from the first step. It can be enhanced, overlaid, recorded and shared.
An analog tube turns light into electrons and back into light. Nucleus turns it into data first, and that changes what the device can do.
Captures what little light there is, or the heat of the scene in the thermal version, and turns it into a digital signal.
Processes the image on board and in real time, from noise and contrast to functions supported by AI.
Shows the result in the eyepiece, where the phosphor screen of an analog tube used to sit.
Carries power and data between the tube and its host device, and from there into the network.
Both versions share the housing and the interface, so a device can carry either of them, or both, as Atom does.
Amplifies starlight, moonlight and the glow of the night sky into a clear image, as an analog tube does, but as data, and from visible light into short-wave infrared.
Sees the heat that people, vehicles and engines give off, in complete darkness and through smoke.
An analog night vision device amplifies residual light into a visible image. What it shows stays in the tube: nothing is recorded, processed or shared, and the device does not improve over it's lifetime.
Nucleus turns the same analog scene into data. The image can be enhanced, overlaid with information and recorded, and the device gets better with every software update.
The thermal version sees heat instead of light, so people, vehicles and engines stand out in complete darkness and through smoke. Same housing, same overlay, same interface.
Devices link up and pass their images on. A drone's camera or a teammate's view comes up in the same eyepiece, so what one of them sees, all of them can see.
The form factor of an analog tube, for devices already in service.
Two sensor versions in one housing, with one interface.
Image processing in the tube itself, supported by AI.
New functions arrive as updates, without changing the system around it.
Sensing, computing and display as modules, ready for what comes next.
Designed with the cost of the whole system in mind, from production to service.
