Key Technology Product Definer hyperspectral imaging spectrometer

Key Technology’s Product Definer is a hyperspectral imaging spectrometer that helps Key quickly analyse and evaluate new applications and technologies to develop sorting systems that solve outstanding product-quality problems.

Key says the device speeds its ability to tailor an intelligent sorting system to the specific characteristics of each product in order to optimise sort performance.

The spectrometer allows the company to conduct thorough rapid prototyping, which gives the company knowledge to develop the most suitable combination of cameras and lasers for each customer. It allows Key to develop a detailed understanding of the physical and physiological characteristics of customers’ products, defects and foreign material.

Unlike single-point spectrometers, the Product Definer gathers data from thousands of wavelengths simultaneously, capturing images from the visible range and beyond. In addition to hyperspectral imaging data, the device collects data about objects’ fluorescence. The images are saved, creating a spectral library of objects’ signatures and fingerprints.