Cambridge Pixel

Cambridge Pixel develops radar, camera and sensor processing software, tracking and display software and radar interface hardware for the defence, security and maritime sectors. Founded in 2007 by Dr David Johnson, the employee-owned company is based at New Cambridge House, Litlington, near Royston in Hertfordshire, and its products are used by customers in more than 65 countries. It won the 2015 Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade, runs an ISO 9001:2015 quality management system audited by BSI, is Cyber Essentials certified and designs, develops and makes its hardware and software in the UK.

Products

• Radar interface hardware: the HPx-700 radar input and processing unit with embedded software for edge processing, HPx-346 analogue radar to network converter, HPx-310 radar signal output card, HPx-550 VME synchro/resolver converter, HPx-256 VME radar/TV video splitter and HPx-180 PCI/PCIe synchro-resolver card
• Tracking, fusion and distribution: SPx Server tracking and distribution software (now at version 2) and SPx Track Manager for filters and formats
• Display software, including the Surveillance Display Framework (SDF)
• Software development tools such as SPx radar compression and distribution and open access decoding of recordings
• Simulation, recording and training, and monitoring, analysis and utility tools

Applications

The software is found in naval vessels, unmanned surface vessels and air defence systems, from carrier air traffic control to national threat evaluation and weapon assignment systems, and in vessel traffic, coastal security and offshore platform protection. It supports detection, tracking, fusion and display with automated camera and effector steering. Cambridge Pixel demonstrated SAPIENT-compliant radar processing at a NATO counter-UAS exercise, and lists the US Navy, Royal Navy, Saab, Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, BAE Systems, QinetiQ, OSI Maritime and Hanwha among the organisations using its technology. Projects have ranged from displays for laser weapons to complex national air defence systems.

Shows

Cambridge Pixel appears in the exhibitor lists of Airspace World 2027, DSEI UK 2027 and Euronaval 2026.

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