HylasVision

HylasVision's technology will create new opportunities and expand existing applications in industrial machine vision, leveraging global megatrends in green transition. Focus markets include the sorting of plastics, food, and textiles, while also exploring significant opportunities in pharmaceuticals and electronics manufacturing chains.

The world’s resources are not infinite. The only way to enable sustainable society is to recycle the materials as well as possible. To make sorting efficiently in real life applications, the work should be done by robots that can identify and sort different materials automatically and rapidly. Hyperspectral imaging can bring this ability to robots by making the so-called spectral fingerprints of materials visible. 

However, until now the hyperspectral technologies used for sorting are bulky and expensive, limiting and even preventing widespread use. HylasVision will solve this challenge.

To see the spectral fingerprints, the energy of the different wavelengths reflected from the materials should be measured individually. Traditionally sun or similar broadband light source is providing the light, and the spectral separation is made inside the cameras. HylasVision will change this paradigm. The new approach transfers the separation of the different wavelengths from the camera to the extremely fast light source utilizing VTT’s patent pending hyperspectral laser technology. This approach will make the systems very simple and enable the use of any camera as a spectral camera. In this sense, the technology can be called the Midas touch.