Welcome to IMAGINE

IMAGINE - An Innovative, Ultra Low Cost, High Performance, Monolithic Millimetre Wave Imager Module to Increase the Safety of European Citizens

This web site provides information about the IMAGINE project.
The official start date of the project is 1st Jan. 2010 and its duration is 2½ years.

Project Justification

Protecting its citizens from terrorism remains a high priority for the EC. Current state of the art security procedures have significantly improved airport security. The need is now to protect the softer, unprotected areas such as mass transportation systems and hubs that could be targeted with devastating effect, (as was the case in the terrible attacks in e.g. London and Madrid). Such areas are largely unprotected because current security systems are very expensive, bulky and too slow.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative new security screening technology that can provide low cost, high performance, rapid ‘walk-by’ screening at normal flow rates.

The IMAGINE project aims to perform research and development for a compact, low cost, high performance, highly integrated passive millimeter-wave (mm-wave) camera front-end that can be used primarily for security applications.

See Project Description and Partners for more general information regarding IMAGINE.