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Pittsburgh, PA 15203
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MobileFusion tells soldiers and first responders what they can't see – what's over the hill, around the corner, and behind the wall.

There is an urgent need for a dramatic improvement in the gathering and exploitation of real-time tactical information in dynamic and unpredictable situations such as is the case in close-quarter urban combat, hostage situations, hazmat incidents and search-and-rescue. A common challenge is finding out what is or isn't going on around that dangerous corner, in that dark room, over that ridge, or down that hole. Though our military, police, fire, and rescue professionals have access to such powerful tools as UAVs and ground robots, these technologies, while very useful, are often too cumbersome, too expensive, too fragile, or, for various reasons, simply not available when needed in many of these routine situations.

What is needed for all these professionals is a handheld, throwable, easy to use, and smart device for soaking up and interpreting disparate data and sending back information that these professionals can act on immediately. Such a "smart sensor" device would need to be more than, say, "a camera in a ball," but a platform capable of integrating four or five different sensor "suites." It would also need substantial process power and possess a robust broadband wireless capacity, while allowing for easy integration with any number of receiving devices (i.e., laptops, PDAs, and other similar display devices).

Despite advances in robotic and sensor technology, "close-in" intelligence gathering, professionals still must rely on putting people in dangerous situations simply to gather information. To put it bluntly, someone has to go in there and find out what is or isn't going on. Fortunately, a small, portable, durable, and very sophisticated smart sensor device is available to remove that now needless risk while dramatically improving the quality and quantity of information collected. Our Scout Ballª is handheld and throwable sphere (15 cm) that that integrates up to five sensor suites at a time from a menu of (currently) fourteen different types of analog and digital sensors. The data is gathered and analyzed on the ball. It does so through a powerful modular and on-board software platform capable of collecting, translating, and interpreting the data into practical and usable information in real-time for a wide variety of users.

Our Scout Ball is built on a proprietary software technology that "fuses" disparate streams of data on-board the device with embedded processors and translates it all immediately into actionable information. This information is available to one or several users (through an wide variety of receiving devices) simultaneously directly or via information sharing mesh network.