Capabilities
Four disciplines and the
integration that joins them.
Each capability below is stated together with the delivered specification that proves it. Where we cannot point to evidence, we have left the claim out.
- Established
- 1992
- Location
- Yerevan, Armenia
- Disciplines in house
- Optics · Mechanics · Electronics · Software
- Delivered systems
- 7 published
Optics
Optics and optoelectronics
Aragats designs and builds the optical channels of its systems in house — long-wave infrared objectives, wide-range zoom day channels and eye-safe rangefinder optics. Optical components are fabricated, centred, assembled and tested on the company's own benches.
What we do
- Optical and optoelectronic system design
- Long-wave infrared (8–14 µm) objective design for uncooled microbolometer detectors
- Wide-range zoom day-channel optics
- Laser rangefinder transmit and receive optics
- Optical component fabrication: grinding, polishing and centring
- Optical assembly, alignment and boresighting of multi-channel heads
- Optical test and verification on collimator benches
Mechanics
Precision mechanics and manufacturing
Housings, optical barrels, pan-and-tilt mechanisms and structural parts are engineered and machined on site. The mechanical work is what holds a multi-channel optical system in alignment through ± 175° of travel and a −40 °C to +70 °C environment.
What we do
- Mechanical engineering and design of optomechanical assemblies
- Precision machining of housings, lens barrels and mounts
- Pan-and-tilt mechanism design, manufacture and adjustment
- Sealed enclosure design to IP67 and IP68
- Mechanical fitting, adjustment and final assembly
- Manufacture of structures, brackets and interface flanges
Evidence
Electronics
Electronics hardware
Power sources, video receivers and transceivers, motor drive controllers and video interface conversion boards are all Aragats designs. A single sealed head runs two cameras, a rangefinder, two axes and a full network stack inside a 36 W budget — which is an electronics result before it is anything else.
What we do
- Electronic hardware and PCB design
- Power source design
- Video receivers and transceivers
- Motor drive controllers
- Video interface conversion boards
- Uncooled microbolometer and CMOS detector interfacing
- Video acquisition, processing and H.265 / H.264 encoding hardware
- Laser rangefinder drive and timing electronics
- Power conditioning for 12 / 24 V DC and 220 V AC supplies, including solar input
- Electronics assembly, inspection and test
Evidence
Simultaneous thermal and day video streams with independent main and sub streams, encoded on board.
AR-014-05Integrated GNSS and on-board 1 TB storage inside the sealed head.
< 36 W total consumption for a system driving two cameras, a rangefinder, two axes and a network stack.
Embedded software
Embedded systems and firmware
The software that makes the hardware usable is written in house — detector correction, tracking, coordinate solving, network control and a published SDK. Software engineers work alongside the physicists and electronics engineers rather than downstream of them.
What we do
- Embedded firmware for detector control and image correction
- Object recognition and tracking
- Automatic geographic coordinate solving in WGS84 and SK-42
- Network control plane: HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, RTSP, UDP, SMTP
- ONVIF conformance and the Aragats SDK for customer integration
- Fault detection and health monitoring
- Interoperation with external motion-detection sensors
Evidence
Automatic calculation of the geographic coordinates of observed objects, in WGS84 or SK-42.
AR-040-01An Aragats SDK published alongside ONVIF support, so integrators can drive the system directly.
Object recognition and tracking on every product in the range.
Integration
System integration and testing
The disciplines above meet in one place: a finished head where optics, mechanics, electronics and firmware have to agree with each other. Integration and test are treated as engineering stages in their own right, not as the end of assembly.
What we do
- Integration of optical, mechanical, electronic and software subsystems
- Boresight alignment between thermal, day and rangefinder channels
- Calibration of coordinate solving against the pan-and-tilt axes
- Environmental and duty-cycle verification against the specification
- Functional and network acceptance testing
- Documentation and datasheet verification
Evidence
Three optical channels, two mechanical axes and a GNSS receiver resolved into one coordinate output.
AR-014-05Published detection, recognition and identification ranges for both channels of every system.
Specifications held across −40 °C to +70 °C storage and 24/7 operation.
Why it matters
The advantage is not any one discipline. It is that they share a corridor.
An optical change that costs mass, a mechanical change that costs power, a firmware change that needs a different detector clock — all of those get resolved between colleagues instead of between contracts.
- 01OpticsObjectives, channels, fabrication
- 02MechanicsHousings, barrels, mechanisms
- 03ElectronicsDetectors, video, drive, power
- 04Embedded softwareCorrection, tracking, control
Integration & test
One complete system
Four disciplines resolved into a single documented product — optical performance, mechanical accuracy, electronics and software verified against one specification.
How the work is ordered
From requirement to accepted system.
- 01
Requirements and concept
Range, resolution, envelope, power and environment are turned into a set of engineering targets that the optical, mechanical and electronic designs are all held against.
- Optics
- Electronics
- Integration
- 02
Engineering
Physicists, mechanical engineers, electronics engineers and software engineers work the same specification at the same time, so an optical decision is costed in mechanics and power immediately.
- Optics
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- Firmware
- 03
Optical, mechanical and electronic design
Detailed design of the objectives and channel layout, the housings, barrels and pan-and-tilt mechanism, and the detector, video, drive and power electronics.
- Optics
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- 04
Prototyping
Parts are made in the company's own workshops, which keeps the loop between a drawing and a physical part short enough to iterate on.
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- 05
Manufacturing
Optical components are ground, polished and centred; housings, barrels and mechanism parts are machined; electronic assemblies are built and inspected.
- Optics
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- 06
Assembly
Optical channels are assembled and aligned, mechanisms are fitted and adjusted, and the sealed head is closed up to its ingress-protection rating.
- Optics
- Mechanics
- 07
Firmware and system integration
Detector correction, tracking, coordinate solving and the network control plane are brought up on the real hardware, and the channels are boresighted to each other.
- Firmware
- Integration
- 08
Testing
Optical performance is verified on the bench, and the assembled system is tested against the ranges, accuracies and environmental limits published in its datasheet.
- Optics
- Integration
- 09
Delivered system
A complete, documented product — not a set of parts handed to somebody else to integrate.
- Integration
Start a project
Bring us a requirement, not a drawing package.
Tell us what the system has to do and in what envelope. We will tell you which parts we would design, which we would make, and where the real constraints are.
- Sales and Marketing Manager
- +374 99 03 25 35