Theia Technologies IQ Lens™ System Awarded Security Today's New Product of the Year, 2024

Wilsonville, OR – October 1st 2024

Theia Technologies announced today that their IQ Lens™ System was recognized as New Product of the Year in the Video Surveillance Hardware and Accessories category by Security Today. "It’s always inspiring to see the level of ingenuity and dedication that goes into the products submitted for the 'New Product of the Year' awards,” said Ralph C. Jensen, publisher of Security Today magazine.

Theia’s IQ Lens™ System which includes a motorized lens, motor control board, average calibration data, and software with graphical user interface (GUI), Theia’s motorized lenses and motor control board are designed for integration into video surveillance systems and intelligent traffic systems and use stepper motors to operate the zoom, focus, iris, and filter of the lens.

Theia’s new IQ Lens™ line provides an average measured zoom/focus tracking curve and lens focal length, plus design data for distortion, aperture and relative illumination for the family. Knowing the relationship of focal length to zoom motor step position allows accurate field of view setup; best focus step to focal length position allows best focus location with minimal focus adjustment.

The IQ Lens™ line includes software and graphical user interface (GUI) that translates engineering units like FOV or F/# into motor steps without requiring the user to look up which motor step correlates to what FOV, or which iris step equates to what F/#. The new IQ Lens™ System also works with Theia’s fully calibrated lenses.

Theia has also launched the MCR IQ™ Motor Control Board with software and GUI to convert motor steps into machine commands that move the lens to desired positions. The board communicates via USB, UART or I2C protocols.

Theia’s IQ Lens™ System with motorized varifocal lens, motor control board, average calibration data, and software application saves the user considerable development effort and cost, speeding time to market. The system provides convenience, flexibility and optimized image quality in a cost-effective package to support today’s demanding video surveillance applications.

About Theia: Theia Technologies provides high quality 4K and megapixel lenses for machine vision, intelligent traffic systems, video surveillance and other applications. Their patented, award winning Linear Optical Technology® corrects barrel distortion and improves image resolution over typical lenses. Theia lenses are designed and marketed from the US and manufactured to ISO 9001:2015 standards. Theia also provides optical engineering and custom design services. Theia has numerous issued and pending US and foreign patents for lens technologies.
About Security Today’s New Product of the Year award: The Security Today New Product of the Year Award honors the outstanding product development achievements of security equipment manufacturers whose products are particularly noteworthy in their ability to improve security. In the 14th successful year of the independently juried contest, winners were honored in 47 product award categories.

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