Kappa optronics

Kappa optronics is a German company that develops and builds application-specific cameras and vision systems. Its products are rugged, certifiable and used in aviation, defence land vehicles and industry. It has over 40 years of experience with these systems.

The company has three main areas. The Aviation business unit covers cameras and vision systems for aircraft. Defense Land covers systems for military ground vehicles. Vision Solutions covers cameras for industry, such as digital, analogue and USB switchgear monitoring cameras for power distribution.

In aviation, Kappa offers products for advanced air mobility with VTOL and ATOL aircraft, flight test cameras, aircraft surveillance, UAV and UAS cameras, in-flight refuelling vision systems, HUD cameras and cockpit cameras. It also makes cameras for ED-155 recorders. Its aircraft surveillance line includes cabin cameras, cargo surveillance cameras, cockpit door cameras and an exterior camera for in-flight entertainment. A video server records up to 12 cameras in Full HD at 30 frames per second, with loop recording and motion detection. The cameras are qualified to DO-160G and suit retrofit and new line fit. They are also meant for air taxis in urban air mobility.

In defence land, the company offers CEDALION situational awareness systems, the RIB 4D gun bore inspection system and GunFlash EVO gun bore cleaning.

Kappa handles special signal processing, mechanical changes, customer-specific interfaces, optics and illumination, and video management. Its systems offer day and night vision, latency-free images, board-level cameras and glass-to-glass vision systems. They are ITAR free, with long-term availability and a functional warranty.

The company follows design assurance for hardware and software development, qualification and certification. It works up to SIL 2, ASIL-B and DAL-B, and to ISO 26262, DO-254, DO-160, DO-178 and MIL-STD 810 and 704. It holds a NATO supplier code.

Kappa shows its work at events such as XPONENTIAL Europe, Eurosatory with THEON Group, AFCEA in Bonn, DAIMEX Baltic and Forum 82 of the Vertical Flight Society. It has joined SAPRA, which links it with the Baltic and European defence industry, and it has opened an engineering, service and production centre in Madrid through Kappa optronics S.L.

Services

• Aircraft surveillance cameras
• Flight test cameras
• In-flight refuelling vision systems
• Cockpit and HUD cameras
• UAV and UAS cameras
• Situational awareness systems
• Gun bore inspection systems
• Switchgear monitoring cameras
• Design assurance and certification
• Video management