Smith Myers has added several capabilities to its Artemis mobile phone detection, location, and communication system, which the UK company says “will take the sensor into new operational environments with new customers.”
“The effectiveness of Artemis across a broad range of use cases has become clear as we continue to field more systems in different roles,” explained Smith Myers managing director Andrew Munro. “We have continued to hone and evolve the capability to meet these new demands.”
Smith Myers has recently signed several multi-year delivery contracts with a variety of customers, including law enforcement, military, search and rescue, aerial firefighting, maritime, border, and environmental control agencies. The contracts encompass both factory-fitted programs and retrofits for existing fleets across Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia.
The Artemis airborne systems are designed for use on any fixed or rotary wing aircraft, both crewed and remotely piloted.
New capabilities of the Artemis+ next-generation system, which Smith Myers revealed this week at the Farnborough Airshow, include cellular mission analysis tools, advanced cellular interactions, mission replay, improved real-time and post-mission mapping, and system output power control. Existing Artemis systems are compatible with the new capability set via a software update.
Smith Myers also announced a features upgrade for the Artemis simulator.