The CFI.co judges have conferred on Pyramidal Technologies its Best Forensic Technology Global 2016 Award. Highlights of the judging panel’s findings include:

• Pyramidal Technologies has developed an open architecture for forensic ballistics capable of communicating with other systems such as those that process and analyse DNA, fingerprints, facial recognition systems, etc.

• Pyramidal Technologies’ flagship Advanced Ballistics Analysis System (ALIAS) allows forensic ballistics technicians to analyse expended cartridges and bullets faster and with much more accuracy than before.

• ALIAS produces scans of casings or bullets at better than two microns laterally and two hundred nanometres vertically creating detailed images unavailable with any other system.

The judging panel’s full report:

Pyramidal Technologies: Best Forensic Technologies Global 2016

Deploying the power of innovation and mathematics, Pyramidal Technologies has revolutionised forensics by taking  opinion out of the equation. The company has produced a breakthrough technology that transformed forensic ballistics from a subjective art into a fact-based science, enhancing criminal evidence provided in courts of law. Pyramidal Technologies has developed an open architecture for forensic ballistics capable of communicating with other systems such as those that process and analyse DNA, fingerprints, facial recognition systems, etc. in order to generate investigative leads and assist law enforcement officials with criminal investigations.

The company’s hardware-light, software-heavy applications offer the flexibility that allows users – law enforcement agencies, justice officials, the military, and other government entities – to fully customise their solution and, hence, their experience. The resulting bespoke systems are also significantly less expensive than competing products.

Pyramidal Technologies’ flagship Advanced Ballistics Analysis System (ALIAS) allows forensic ballistics technicians to analyse expended cartridges and bullets faster and with much more accuracy than before – setting a new industry standard. ALIAS renders true 3D high-resolution “digital clones” of crime scene evidence and offers both correlation and confirmation capabilities that vastly enhance examiners’ ability to reach definite conclusions. ALIAS produces scans of casings or bullets at better than two microns laterally and two hundred nanometres vertically creating detailed images unavailable with any other system.

ALIAS empowers law enforcement officials to create their own secure, scalable, hierarchical relational database that allows them to quickly search for mathematically close matches to the specific case under investigation, extending the capabilities of the investigator. The system also simplifies the work of ballistics analysts by giving them access to an intuitive solution that significantly reduces their workload when investigating violent firearms crimes.

The CFI.co judging panel commends Pyramidal Technologies for its string of achievements in advancing forensic science and providing new tools that increase both accuracy and user convenience. The judges are pleased to declare Pyramidal Technologies winner of the 2016 Best Forensic Technology Global Award.

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The power of technology is being deployed to rid society of violent crime. Once more of an art than a science, ballistics has evolved to a point beyond reasonable doubt. The guesswork of yore that allowed plenty of wiggle room for defendants to evade justice has been replaced by the detailed analysis and pinpoint accuracy of advanced ballistics.

Few companies have done more to push ballistics into the digital age of high-resolution imagery, analysis, big data, and powerful computers than UK/Barbados based Pyramidal Technologies. The company’s ALIAS (Advanced balLIstics Analysis System) suite of solutions breaks new ground with capabilities not seen anywhere else. ALIAS employs a scanning technology offering nanometre vertical resolution that is sharp enough to resolve tool marks that are less than the width of a human chromosome.. As such ALIAS represents a remarkable feat of technology. The system – a suite of interlocking modules that may be used jointly or separately to dovetail with the client’s requirements –uses an open architecture and can easily be connected to already existing firearms management databases.

Pyramidal Technologies’ ALIAS consists of three domains –forensic ballistics, firearms registration and criminal intelligence. The domains are complementary and may be linked to provide an end-to-end solution. The systems are continually updated and upgraded to include new features, and further improve existing ones, in order to maintain and expand its leading edge. ALIAS is primarily directed at law enforcement, justice and military organisations. The system is operational in Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America and the Caribbean and was also part of the EU Odyssey Project.​

The CFI.co judging panel commends Pyramidal Technologies on its achievements in advanced ballistic and its success in building a system that produces solid evidence time and again. In particular, the Judges noted that Pyramidal Technologies had contributed significantly to secure societies with the deployment of ALIAS as part of a National Security initiative for Firearms Registration in the Dominican Republic, where escalating firearms violence was reduced, year upon year, resulting in hundreds of lives saved.  The judges are delighted to offer Pyramidal Technologies the 2018 Best Forensic Technology Global Award.

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To properly address the escalating nature of crime, Pyramidal Technologies is proactive when it comes to innovative solutions that can be used to help create more civil societies and provides law enforcement and judicial systems with vital tools to ensure offenders are held accountable under the law. The company has leveraged the power of technology to elevate forensic ballistics from subjective opinion to data-backed science. Pyramidal Technologies has driven the technological evolution of forensic ballistics and firearms registration by offering its flagship product, ALIAS, to support justice departments, police and military forces and government agencies worldwide. ALIAS combines a next generation scanning system, using interferometry, with a sophisticated software front-end, including advanced intellectual property for “Correlation”, to capture and compare firearms evidence in the form of bullets and cartridge cases. The majority of points are reinvested into the evolution of ALIAS through ongoing R&D in order to ensure that law enforcement officials are equipped with the best methods available to identify violent offenders. Pyramidal Technologies is carrying out its efforts through ongoing strategic discussions with government leaders worldwide with regard to issues or national security and public safety as it relates to firearms. The CFI judging panel is familiar with the company’s contribution to civil societies, having recognized Pyramidal Technologies for its forensic fortitude in previous awards. The judges are pleased to see the company and its partnerships continue to flourish and contribute to public safety, such as to reduce violent crime, including gang and drug related murders. For example, firearm homicides in the Dominican Republic have been cut in half over the past five years through a National Security initiative using ALIAS as a principal solution. Without hesitation, the judges declare Pyramidal Technologies as winner, for the third year, of the 2019 award for Best Forensic Technology (Global).

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