INNOVATIVE IMAGING SOLUTIONS

For more than twenty years, i2S has distinguished itself as a pioneer in extreme-condition digital vision and image processing solutions for customers requiring high image quality, ever-increasing camera performance and image processing systems that are increasingly intelligent and flexible.

"We are constantly striving to innovate. Between 1983 and 2005, we filed 18 patent applications and currently have four active patents and a fifth one that is pending. Given the numerous research and development projects that we are undertaking at the French and European level, we will be placing increased emphasis on our patent application policy over the next few years", explained Jean-Louis Blouin – CEO.

The customer is at the heart of our drive to innovate!
We believe that innovation is a driving force that allows us to create utility for our customers and to provide them with durable, quantifiable value. The ongoing evolution in world economic environments, the speed of technological changes and the necessary flexibility of organizations is constantly influencing the expectations and priorities of our customers. To handle these changes, i2S's technological development is integrated into its business model, as a process, as an organization, as vigilance about the competition and as project management in the service of a dynamic offering that takes into account customer practices and that aims for natural acceptance by customers.

Bearing in mind that the seeds of value are built into the products, but that this value is created through services and practices, i2S's offering is global in terms of solutions. Innovation affects not only products, but also internal or external organizations, such as industry groupings, and quality processes, such as co-engineering, for example.

SEE IT, LIKE IT, USE IT

At i2S, the master plan for all innovation can be summarized in the notion of "SEE IT, USE IT, LIKE IT", which has developed over the past 25 years of experience and which acts as a framework for all projects that we undertake:

• SEE IT means seeing what is not naturally visible.
  Seeing in extreme conditions, at high speeds, in particular forms of radiation, in 3D, etc. is becoming a necessity for a large number of industrial, scientific and governmental users. It is for this reason that i2S has acquired total mastery over image acquisition technologies, from optics to signals via silicon sensors (CCD, CMOS, ILCCD, ...) and embedded processing of the image signal.

• LIKE IT means liking "beautiful" images.
  Seeing also means offering the customer quality images, either realistic or virtual, that provide visual comfort and calmness of mind, so that the customer can naturally understand the events being observed and take decisions with certainty. It also means allowing the customer to communicate. i2S teams place great importance on image quality and high-fidelity reproduction, but also on providing added value to the observed objects or phenomena, by using a full range of techniques from simple real-time color shading to augmented 3D reality.

• USE IT means putting usage into the very heart of our solutions.
  Usage alone is what creates value for the customer. As a result, i2S innovation processes start asking questions far in advance about the challenges of the systems that we design, about how they will be deployed, installed, and maintained, but especially about how our customers will use them and the benefit that customers will be able to draw from them. An i2S imaging system is therefore not a simple product; it also involves marketing efforts, management of associated services, project management support, a technology and competition watch, and even the guarantee of an evolving cost objective. It is also a system that integrates easily and naturally into our customers' environments.

The dynamics of innovation.

Last but not least, i2S's innovative drive draws its effectiveness from three sources of energy: our employees; our scientific and industrial partners (design offices, sub-contractors, specialized scientific laboratories); and finally the technical-economic environment (scientific laboratories, business clusters, associations, institutional financeers).

These three sources of energy guarantee the stability and also the power of i2S's innovations. This INNOVATION structure, patiently erected over the years, and its operating methodology are the core competencies that i2s makes available to its customers.