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Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Strategic merger: Agelec joins the Videlio group
The growing challenges of supervision, decision-making efficiency, and security for institutions and businesses have led Videlio, a major player in audiovisual and IT integration, to take a step forward in the development of a new strategic activity: control systems. This turning point is now taking place through a major merger with Agelec, the French leader in supervision and control solutions for sensitive infrastructure. This marks a defining moment for the Videlio group, confirming its ambition to offer a wider range of solutions that are among the most innovative on the market. The Group's goal is to stay as close as possible to its customers' operational needs and uses by offering them solutions that are easy to use, secure, and effective. Industrial synergy between two leading players AGELEC stands out today as the specialist in supervision, control, and visualization solutions dedicated to critical environments, meeting the constant demand for availability and security of sensitive infrastructure. Its control or supervision rooms, security stations, crisis rooms, and command or surveillance centers demonstrate Agelec's recognized experience in meeting these very high standards. This expertise has attracted leading clients. Videlio and Agelec will work together to strengthen this expertise by combining their operational and commercial resources to give new scope to this activity within the Group. Their ambition is to develop a model capable of combining the best technologies in open architectures that guarantee both security and interoperability. This project will focus in particular on the development of advanced collaborative incident management solutions, agile and robust architectures with AVoIP, and intelligent video walls. Videlio and Agelec will also work together on today's major challenges, with innovative offerings in AI, cybersecurity, augmented reality, and more. Xavier Renaud, President of Videlio: 'Agelec is a leader in control rooms, particularly through its mastery of the technological and operational complexities of this type of installation. We are very pleased with this merger, which strengthens Videlio's position as the French leader in specialized high value-added audiovisual integration, while expanding our scope of activity in a market in which we strongly believe. We enthusiastically welcome the Agelec teams and their leader Guillaume Guérin, who has built a solid, innovative company that is virtually indispensable in its ecosystem." Guillaume Guérin, President of Agelec: 'The energy and human values that drive Videlio were decisive factors in our choice. We share the same vision of audiovisual integration, which brings high standards and value creation for the end customer. Our common conviction is to place usability, ergonomics, and business intelligence above technology. Joining Videlio is obviously an opportunity to take a step forward, but above all, it is an opportunity to amplify our innovation momentum in intelligent and open systems, to better support our customers as they face the constant evolution of their critical challenges."
Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Bowman Confirmed by Senate to be Fed Vice Chair for Supervision
Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman was confirmed by the US Senate on Wednesday to serve as the central bank's vice chair for supervision, further signaling a shift to lighter regulation under President Donald Trump. Bowman, a fifth-generation banker and Republican, has long touted the need for more 'tailored' oversight in her speeches. She has signaled significant changes in regulatory priorities and has a friendlier relationship with the bank industry than her predecessor, Michael Barr.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Scientists create contact lenses that can help us see in the dark
A team of scientists from China have created contact lenses that can help people to see in the new lenses allow people to see infrared light, which is normally invisible to the human technology has been around for a while, in the form of things like night-vision goggles, however, these are quite heavy and need power to Tian Xue, a scientist at the University of Science and Technology of China, said their work could help to inspire a range of contact lenses, glasses and other wearable devices that give people "super-vision", as well as helping people with optical conditions like colour blindness. Why can we see some things and not others? There are seven types of electromagnetic (EM) waves, made of light, sound and radiation, which are part of something called the Electromagnetic can only see 'visible light', but there are lots of other types like radio waves, ultraviolet light and infrared light, which we cannot scientists have developed technology like sonar which helps us to see sound, and night-vision cameras which help us to see infrared light using temperature. How do the infrared contact lenses work? The team of scientists created contact lenses that have engineered nanoparticles in are tiny microscopic structures that are made up of a few engineered nanoparticles absorb and change near infrared light into blue, green and red light, which is visible to the human experiments to test out the lenses, people said they could see signals flashed from an infrared light, and could tell what direction the light came well as this, people said their infrared vision improved when they closed their could be because our eyelids help to block visible light more than infrared, so there was less visible light to the scientists have said that the lenses are not quite sensitive enough to see low levels of infrared light, so they do not give complete thermal vision yet, but the team hope that future work can help to improve the technology.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
'Night Vision' Contacts Are Here, Scientists Say
In the 1980s, people wore their sunglasses at night. In the 2020s, people will be able to wear ultra advanced contact lenses that grant the wearer 'super-vision,' according to researchers. In a new report from Live Science, the new super contacts will allow wearers to see infrared wavelengths that are usually invisible to the human eye. Talk about a major upgrade. In a press release, researcher and senior author of the paper about the contacts, Tian Xue, said that the contacts will have a wide variety of applications. 'Our research opens up the potential for non-invasive wearable devices to give people super-vision,' said Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University of Science and Technology of China. 'There are many potential applications right away for this material. For example, flickering infrared light could be used to transmit information in security, rescue, encryption or anti-counterfeiting settings.' Right now though, the contact lenses are still purely in the realm of scientific study. They have been tested on both mice and humans. The tests so far have proved that without the lenses, there were certain things humans simply could not see. 'It's totally clear cut: without the contact lenses, the subject cannot see anything, but when they put them on, they can clearly see the flickering of the infrared light,' said Xue. 'We also found that when the subject closes their eyes, they're even better able to receive this flickering information, because near-infrared light penetrates the eyelid more effectively than visible light, so there is less interference from visible light.' If you want to read more about the science involved, you can check out more details here. 'Night Vision' Contacts Are Here, Scientists Say first appeared on Men's Journal on May 23, 2025
ABC News
22-05-2025
- Science
- ABC News
Infrared contact lens helps people see in the dark, even with their eyes closed
Many people have wished for night vision on a dark walk home. But have you ever wondered if it's possible to see with your eyes closed? Both are feasible with a contact lens that allows the wearer to see light that's usually invisible to our eyes — and can pass through our eyelids. The infrared lens, which was developed by researchers in China, was unveiled in the journal Cell today. Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University of Science and Technology of China and study co-author, said the material had the potential to give people "super-vision". But in the shorter term, the team's ambitions are more modest. "Flickering infrared light could be used to transmit information in security, rescue, encryption or anti-counterfeiting settings," Professor Xue said in a press release. Our eye cells only register light in a small proportion of the electromagnetic spectrum. If we could see longer wavelengths — just outside the visible spectrum into the near-infrared — we'd be able to see humans and other warm-blooded animals "glow" faintly as they emit infrared light. Devices like night-vision goggles often work by tuning into near-infrared wavelengths, sometimes accompanied by an infrared light source to illuminate the surrounding area. But these devices usually need an external power source to work, making them bulky. They also tend to have a very limited of field of view, according to Paul Martin, a researcher in ophthalmology at the University of Sydney. While it's possible to buy "infrared" contact lenses online, typically marketed for cheating at card games, these lenses don't allow users to see infrared light. Instead, Professor Martin said they filter out higher wavelengths of light to make it easier to see light at a desired wavelength — usually, one tuned to an invisible ink sold with the contact lenses. Researchers around the world, including in Australia, have been working on less cumbersome materials that can perform "wavelength shifting": absorbing invisible infrared light and re-emitting it as light we can see. The researchers behind the new study had previously developed particles roughly the size of a small virus by mixing gold atoms with a few other elements, including the metals ytterbium and erbium. The team injected these particles into the eyes of mice and found it gave them infrared vision. But they wanted to make the process less invasive before testing it on humans. In the newest study, the researchers mixed their nanoparticles with polymers used in commercial contact lenses, and moulded this mixture into contacts. They found people wearing the contact lenses could see visible light as normal. But they could also see a flashing infrared light — even when their eyes were shut. Our eyelids have evolved to block visible light, but infrared light can pass right through them. In fact, Professor Xue said participants were better at detecting the infrared flashes when their eyes were shut, because there was less interference from visible light. The researchers could tweak their nanoparticles to convert specific infrared wavelengths into specific visible wavelengths, so the participants could see different shades of infrared light in different visible colours. They tested this by showing the study participants different letters made from infrared light, which the participants could read in different colours. Professor Martin, who was not involved with the research, called the study a "marvellous technical tour de force". "One big and exciting promise of the present study is that the contact lenses or glasses could become a new basis for human-worn surveillance devices." While the research is promising, Professor Martin believes these contact lenses are a long way away from practical use. People using the lenses could see infrared light, but they weren't granted fine night vision. The researchers did build their nanoparticles into wearable spectacles, which gave people crisper infrared vision, but they still needed a bright source of infrared light for the glasses to work. "The nanoparticles in the contact lens or glasses are not sensitive enough to detect the very low intensity of infrared radiation emitted by warm-blooded animals," Professor Martin said. Professor Xue said that the team was working on improving the nanoparticles' sensitivity so that they could make higher-resolution contact lenses.
