Swabian Instruments for Necara Solutions: Osteo Recorder
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March 6, 2026
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March 6, 2026
High-rate, time-tagged data is foundational to quantum research, encryption, and precision timing applications, but managing, securing, and reanalyzing that data can present challenges.
Through a collaboration between Swabian Instruments and Necara Solutions, researchers can now move beyond raw time tags to a secure, flexible, and re-playable data pipeline using the Osteo Data Processing Engine (Osteo DPE™).
By integrating Osteo DPE with Swabian Instruments’ time-tagging hardware, teams gain the ability to encrypt data in real time, fuse time-tags with additional sensor data, record and replay experiments, and analyze long-running data sets without disrupting live operations. This unlocks new capabilities for quantum computation, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), and advanced sensing applications.
Swabian Instruments’ time-tagging hardware delivers the precision and scalability required for modern quantum and high-performance sensing systems making it a natural fit for Osteo’s data management framework.
Key capabilities include:
When paired with Osteo DPE, these capabilities extend beyond capture alone. The system automatically segments and compresses high-rate data streams, making it practical to record extended experiments, flight tests, or operational deployments without overwhelming storage or compute resources.
With the Osteo interface, researchers can also monitor correlation histograms, and chart count rates in real time, gaining immediate insight while experiments are still running, rather than waiting for post processing.
The following are benefits you achieve by combining Swabian Instruments with Osteo, we’ll briefly talk through each:
One of the biggest challenges in quantum and precision-timing research is understanding why an experiment behaved the way it did often long after it finished.
Osteo DPE enables variable-rate playback, allowing teams to replay experimental or operational data at any speed while preserving precise timestamp and time-of-day correlation across multiple systems. This makes it easier to refine algorithms, debug anomalies, and compare outcomes across repeated or long-running experiments.
Built-in AES and RSA encryption, with per-channel key support, ensures sensitive research data remains protected whether it’s transferred across networks or stored in the cloud.
In flight-test environments, Time Taggers can be distributed across airborne platforms to analyze inbound radar pulses even in non-pressurized vessels. Using Osteo’s alignment of the Swabian Time Tagger data, flight test teams can consolidate radar pulse analyses from multiple points on the airframe, assessing cable delays in test, and merge the data to analyze emitter characteristics during operations.
In fiber-optics environments, teams can capture and analyze fiber delays, evaluating pulse correlations with sub-nanosecond resolution (~100picosecond). This level of precision is critical for understanding delay propagation, fiber reflection behavior, and synchronization across complex sensor networks - directly impacting system performance.
Modern navigation and tracking systems rely on data from multiple sensor types, each with unique timing characteristics. Swabian Instruments’ time-tagging hardware can be fused within Osteo’s wide range of inputs, which includes:
Through this partnership, researchers can combine Swabian’s timing precision with Osteo’s advanced data fusion, orchestration and visualization tools. Osteo’s customizable dashboards make it easy to monitor data flows, view video streams, and track system health, all from a single interface.
Whether you’re securing QKD data, refining quantum algorithms, or managing complex multi-sensor experiments, Swabian Instruments and Osteo DPE provide a scalable, secure foundation for modern research.
Contact Necara Solutions to learn how Osteo DPE and Swabian Instruments’ Time Taggers can transform how you capture, protect, and analyze your data.
