Mobile Security Camera Design

The initial stage before the advanced planning and design process of TRUWITNESS. Even before the initial design, is a stage in which the studio decides on a configuration in which the product will be built and assembled. What is the product that we design? Is it a cylinder or squared? What will the usage scenario contain? Product design is a complicated procedure, but in the end, it contains a lot of common scense. We, at the Industrial Design Studio, understand the processes of developing the perfect product.

The product design contains several key points in the process. In fact, we can see in the product development for FLIR'S TRUWITNESS, an evolutionary process. We chose to stop you for a few points in time. It is possible to pay attention to the initial, intuitive design that appears first: no more than "four walls and a roof top". The design jumps up steps in evolution and gets details and shape, as development progresses toward its final shape.

Drawing sketches on paper at the beginning of the product design process is a necessary step at the beginning. It's an intuitive step but it does not mean that we paint our products "in the air". Our initial sketches in a product design studio have planning value. In the picture we notice our decisions for the locations, materials, connection parts and visual values of the parts of the FLIR TRUWITNESS system.

Designing a powerful mobile close circuit camera for FLIR TRUWITNESS. At the middle of the process, we design the product in 3D software. Today's 3D program is not only the sourounding in which we design, it is also the 'block" from which the final files are carved for the machines that manufacture the injection molds in China. In the picture, we can see different variations in the design we proposed for our client and some sub-variations that differ in the field of detail and textures on the surface to the same design variation.

When we want to feel the product before manufacturing, in the middle of the process, we build models that we can hold, connect and even install optical and electronic parts. Also, before production, we built prototypes using our own manufacturer in China. The picture shows evolution of product demonstration before serial production. Two models in 3D on the left, and two prototypes. Progress appears clockwise.

As part of the TRUWITNESS product development process, our studio is wearing the Optics Designer's Hat, when we design according to the optical requirements, given to us by FLIR. Internal segregations, camera vision angles, optical enclosure and so on. This requires a lot of experience. But as already mentioned, we know a thing or two about the design of optical instruments. The client who works with us in the studio, usually finds that he has a development team A who can provide an in-house solution for each field of development.

We accompany our client even in prototype production stages. In the picture you can see all the components of the system. A rubber body wraps the camera and creates thermal insulation between the camera and the user. This idea was adopted after the idea of surface ribs that interupt the user. You can also see the camera's fastener for the neckpiece or lapel of the shirt. The same fastener also connects the cable that transfers POWER and DATA from the camera to the FLIR TRUWITNESS system and vice versa.

Quntz is a design and product development studio that combines design and mechanical design. In this way, the customer's running around is spared and he does not have to maneuver between offices and deal with a "broken phone". We specialize in mechanical design for various technological products. The picture shows various options for packaging solutions. At the end of the process it was decided that the protective and stabilizer panel of the photographic lens would be screwed with four screws to the front of the FLIR camera.

Designing the TRUWITNESS camera for FLIR. For us, in an office for industrial design, there is no product that is too difficult to design. Quntz Studio Product designers, designed an impeccable optical product. tollerances design, the angles of extraction and the application of so many components and their insertion into minimized packaging is a complex process that requires a lot of experience and professionalism from the studio. In the picture you can get some idea of the amount of components that we had to compress into the box. In accordance with this, we can see varying wall thickness of the product.

When the entire product comes to the studio, along with the excitement, it is a good time to examine all the components of the product and respond to the manufacturer accordingly as part of a set of improvements. In the picture we can see that our camera is actually an integral part of a complete and complicated system, which includes rechargeable battery, fixture and more. The system was designed and developed by us in our studio for FLIR International. Pay attention to each component in the camera. For each, many resources were allocated to mechanical, design and ergonomic analysis.