SafeView And Battelle Unveil New Screening Portal To Public

Crystal City, VA - SafeView, Inc., and Battelle unveiled a new screening technology that is expected to improve security procedures at buildings, border crossings, and various other checkpoints including airports and other high threat-level areas throughout the United States. The SafeScout family of portals provides a safe, fast and effective method of detecting non-conventional weapons and contraband.

SafeScout uses breakthrough millimeter wave technology developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to reveal items that are undetectable by current metal detection systems, such as ceramic guns, plastic knives and explosives strapped to the body, in less than two seconds. The portal system alerts security personnel to the presence of such dangerous material in real time, by emitting radio-frequency signals that are ten thousand times smaller than those used by garage door openers or cell phones. Unlike x-ray machines, SafeScout does not use ionizing radiation. The system is currently already operating or being deployed in countries including Holland, Japan, Jordan, Israel, Mexico, Iraq, and the United States.

Members of Congress and their staff were invited to a viewing of SafeScout at Battelle's Crystal City facility yesterday, where SafeView's President and CEO Rick Rowe spoke about the product.

"What we have developed is proven to be a safe, fast and effective screening method that is available today," Rowe said. "By ensuring that each passenger or visitor is screened for all potentially hazardous items in a non-intrusive way, we will cut down on the time and risk involved in screening measures today. The system is also used by some customers to detect items being taken out of a facility, such as CD's or other memory holding devices."

SafeView holds an exclusive license to commercialize this patented technology from Battelle, which manages the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Department of Energy. The system is derived from a three-dimensional holographic imagery technology program that was established at PNNL, and was eventually funded by the FAA as a key emerging technology for screening people passing through airports. In 2004, Battelle and PNNL were honored with an R&D 100 award for their work on the technology.

"This security screening device demonstrates how collaboration between government and industry can bring vital technologies out of the laboratory and into the marketplace," said Battelle's James Jackson, Vice President of the Homeland Security Office at Battelle.

SOURCE: SafeView, Inc. and Batelle