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Tihive Technologies
[edit]| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Machine Vision |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Hani Sherry, Carlos Prada, Nicolas Beaudouin |
| Headquarters | Grenoble, France |
Key people | Clement Jany (CTO) |
Number of employees | Approximately 20 |
| Website | tihive |
Tihive SAS (often stylized TiHive, otherwise d.b.a. TiHive Technologies) is a company that designs terahertz imaging systems and software used in automated manufacturing to monitor humidity, optimize raw material usage, and detect defects and contaminants in contexts where they are not visually observable.[1] The company's cameras and sources are based on proprietary technologies, including a unique CMOS architecture, which the company claims can offer unparalleled performance, at a fraction of the size and cost of competing systems currently on the market.[2][3] The company also develops its own artificial intelligence algorithms, used for defect detection in quality systems and for analysis in its research offerings.
History
[edit]TiHive was founded in August 2017 by ST Microelectronics alumni Hani Sherry (CEO), Carlos Prada (CFO), and Nicolas Beaudouin (COO). While completing his PhD thesis, Sherry realized that the terahertz gap posed a missed opportunity for material savings and quality improvements in manufacturing, since terahertz waves can see through many materials and identify many properties that vision could not, and with none of the proven dangers of x-rays.[4][5] The company was thus established to bring to market a Terahertz imaging system small, fast and compact enough to plug into existing production lines, at scale.
Tulipz and Pilot Lines
[edit]In early 2020, TiHive was granted major financial and strategic backing from the European Commission via its EIC Accelerator.[6] The funding will go towards TULIPZ, TiHive's industrial early deployment program, with a focus on the Absorbent Hygiene Product, textile and nonwoven industries.[6]
Products & Services
[edit]For Industry
[edit]In-Line Quality Monitoring Platform
[edit]TiHive's flagship service is the development and deployment of full-stack, in-line quality solutions. The company proposes a distributed inspection system that can be easily scaled and customized to meet any production lines needs. The company boasts the added advantage of being capable of monitoring multiple parameters at once, and of being capable of meeting the fastest production line speeds.[7] In 2021, the company began transitioning from laboratory validation to factory deployment, among a number of production lines with select industrial partners.
Testing and Analysis
[edit]Many industries seek a better understansding of Terahetz imaging's fit to their quality challenges. TiHive offers terahertz testing and analysis services for industrial R&D.[8] The company offers its expertize in Terahertz and AI to companies wishing to:
- Evaluate terahertz imaging detection of a product
- Evaluate product contaminant terahertz imaging contrast
- Assess Product Quality
- Measure variability
- Benchmark materials or products for competitive analysis
TiHive offers both Quick Assessments and Advanced Assessments, which vary in duration and complexity based on the client's needs.[8]
For Research
[edit]Terahertz Imaging Equipment
[edit]TiHive develops and sells lab grade imaging equipment. The company currently has two lab products in its lineup:[9]
- Necter, a Terahertz CMOS camera. It is uncooled and the company claims that it can pick up frequencies between 70GHz and 4THz and operate at speeds of up to 1,000 fps
- TiScope, an easy to use interface designed to view, manipulate, analyze and export Terahertz data picked up by Necter.
Category:Terahertz technology Category:Machine vision Category:Quality control Category:Technological change Category:Deep learning Category:Artificial intelligence Category:Manufacturing
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "TiHive – Featuring the Invisible". www.tihive.com. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ "CMOS terahertz startup gets EC equity backing". eeNews Europe. 2020-09-03. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ Hadi, R. Al; Sherry, H.; Grzyb, J.; Zhao, Y.; Forster, W.; Keller, H. M.; Cathelin, A.; Kaiser, A.; Pfeiffer, U. R. (2012-12). "A 1 k-Pixel Video Camera for 0.7–1.1 Terahertz Imaging Applications in 65-nm CMOS". IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 47 (12): 2999–3012. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2012.2217851. ISSN 1558-173X.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Ward-Foxton, Sally (September 7, 2020). "TiHive Receives EU FUndings for Terahertz Defect Detection Tech". EE Times Europe. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Sun, Qiushuo; He, Yuezhi; Liu, Kai; Fan, Shuting; Parrott, Edward P. J.; Pickwell-MacPherson, Emma (2017-6). "Recent advances in terahertz technology for biomedical applications". Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. 7 (3): 345–355. doi:10.21037/qims.2017.06.02. ISSN 2223-4292. PMC 5537133. PMID 28812001.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ a b "PRESS RELEASE: TiHive Awarded €8.6M in EU Funding For Transformational AI-Terahertz Defect Detection Technology – TiHive". www.tihive.com. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ "Inline Quality Solutions – TiHive". www.tihive.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ a b "Testing Solutions – TiHive". www.tihive.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ "THz Equipment for Labs – TiHive". www.tihive.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.