NCTech has unveiled the iSTAR Pulsar, the company’s professional edge-to-cloud big data system, designed for mobile capture on the move.

According to NCTech, the iSTAR Pulsar is designed to capture 360-degree data while mounted on a vehicle, drone or on foot.

The new capture device was developed in association with Sony and Intel, designed specifically for capturing moving 360-degree data. NCTech has a dedicated workflow pipeline for the device, which the firm says ‘provides an autonomous, edge to cloud solution for capturing 360 degree panoramic images at up to seven frames per second, delivering a lossless upload without compression artefacts.’

The device provides 11k spherical resolution, delivering a 60.5 megapixel panoramic image, sub-pixel pre-calibration, weighted metering, built-in high-accuracy GPS and IMU sensors and a shockproof, weatherproof design. Asymmetric end-to-end encyryption is standard on NCTech’s data pipeline.

Neil Tocher, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of NCTech said that the new device was designed around ease of use, despite delivering extremely high resolution capture.

“With just a tap, iSTAR Pulsar provides fully automated 360-degree panoramic image capture. It’s not a camera in a traditional sense – it is capturing huge amounts of high resolution data that is connected to our vast cloud processing pipeline, offering a fully automatic workflow from capture to delivery,” he said.

NCTech products are distributed through C.R.Kennedy in Australia.