SECURITY—Ensuring people’s safety and security is important to Menon, and the company works on creating products that can detect threats accurately and effectively.

•    Passive Standoff Sensor for detecting explosives, chemical & biological threats, and Radiation & Nuclear Materials: MENTOR-400

A single sensor that can detect CBRNE is needed.  Such a sensor should be accurate in the presence of interferants, sensitive to trace quantities of threats and cost effective.  Currently, there are many individual laboratory instruments and a few portable field instruments that specialize in detecting a few specific chemicals or explosives but do not cover the entire spectrum of threats. 

The Security Division is developing MENTOR-400, a sensor that produces a signal when it reacts with the threats.  The Company is currently developing this technology.  Readout can be stand-off or through remote monitoring.  The Security Division hires chemists, biochemists, explosives and radiation experts.  The team members collaborate with various organizations and universities to help research various aspects in the course of development and testing.