Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (AFR), a research and development firm, says its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Vidiation, LLC, related to the development and licensing of AFR’s software that can be integrated with video surveillance cameras to be used as detection devices for the movement of radiological material, has been terminated. The termination is due to Vidiation’s recent cross selling and licensing agreement with Splinternet Holdings [SLNH], which claims to have developed a competing technology, Michael Serio, president of AFR, tells TR2. Terms of the MOU called for Vidiation to raise a certain amount of money to help complete the development of the radiation detection technology, which was called Vidiation-Radiation Analytics Detection System, and for sales and marketing purposes, Serio says. However, he adds, Vidiation didn’t raise the full amount of money. Going forward, AFR may still end up working with both Vidiation and Splinternet but if so it would be on a non-exclusive bases with regard to the analytics technology, Serio says. In the meantime, he says, AFR is looking for an integrator to do the sales and marketing of its technology. The company is applying to the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office for a Phase 2 Small Business Innovative Research grant for further work on its technology, which has been tested at hospitals. Serio says some “bugs” still need to be worked out of the technology. Last fall Vidiation launched V-RADS into the security market (TR2, Oct. 3, 2007). Vidiation continues to market V-RADS based on Splinternet’s GammaTect technology, which is software that is integrated with Splinternet’s sensors.
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