Olympus partners with Librestream Technologies

Waltham, Massachusetts-based Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas has announced that it is now offering the Onsight platform from Librestream Technologies Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, to provide additional functionality to its product portfolio. Using Onsight, Olympus customers in industries including aerospace, manufacturing and oil and gas can share live visuals from remote visual inspection (RVI) and nondestructive testing (NDT) instruments with remote experts for rapid decision-making in the field.

“Onsight complements the capabilities of the Olympus Scientific Cloud to deliver a rich collaboration experience,” says Karen Smith, senior vice president, strategy and marketing at Olympus. “The ability to instantly share visuals of the environment and from Olympus test instruments is important to our customers as they look for ways to leverage experts across their organizations. Librestream has over a decade of experience in remote collaboration, especially in low bandwidth environments, which is often where our customers operate.”

The Librestream solution includes Onsight Connect collaboration software and the Onsight 400R Collaboration Hub device to connect to Olympus videoscopes, ultrasound and other test instruments.

“Olympus is an innovator in the global scientific and imaging marketplace, and we are pleased to be working with them on a valuable IoT (internet of things) solution,” says Kerry Thacher, president and CEO, Librestream. He adds, “The Onsight platform complements the Olympus product capabilities by enabling remote collaboration across the Olympus RVI and NDT portfolio.”