Nothing Senses Better Than a Dexter Detector

How We Help You Meet Your Sensing Needs

At Dexter Research Center, we’ve built our business by collaborating with our customers, whenever they need help and wherever they may be on the globe.

By working in this way to help meet our customers’ needs, we have developed more than 30 models and over 900 finished goods. That gives you more detector choices, by far, than you will find from any other supplier. These provide the core products we customize for our customers. There’s no “one size fits all” here. With Dexter detectors, you will not need to compromise on noise, sensitivity, size, and durability. Instead, we have just the right component to help optimize performance for your sensing application.

By collaborating with us, you have the unique potential to launch a market-leading product that is easy to differentiate from your competitors, and that will provide a strong foundation for building your brand and enhancing your reputation.

Rapid Product Development

Dexter Research Center recognizes that today’s customers need prototype system designs in weeks, beautifully finished for buy-in by stakeholders and end-use customers, and designed-for-manufacture to shorten the proof-of-concept and manufacturing launch cycles.

The days of an R&D center, or a small inventor, acquiring a couple of detectors and taking five years to perfect an infrared-based system design are behind us. Our customers are moving at light speed. We need to move with them, both in designing the system and by supplying the volumes of components and subsystems.

Since our founding in 1977, Dexter Research Center has been the leader in commercializing industrial infrared thermopile detectors. Our ongoing innovation has helped cut costs to a tenth or, at times, even a hundredth of the original detector units.

Turnkey and Plug-and-Play Solutions

Throughout our history, Dexter Research Center has performed collaborative and adaptive customization for our long list of customers. We have grown because our customers around the world know that they can “ask Dexter” when infrared solutions may be eluding their engineers.

Today, Dexter’s leadership in detector sensitivity and durability has made our products the detectors of choice for such wide-ranging applications as NASA space missions, hospital anesthetic monitoring, fire suppression in military vehicles and aircraft, and industrial and environmental monitoring.

Dexter units in the field have operated without failure for up to 30 years. Our customers tell us we make the best detectors in the world. Yet that’s not enough. Now we offer turnkey and plug-and-play solutions. We use our unique knowledge to optimize the integration of the detector to the board to create a superior sensor. And then we build upstream for optimized performance.

The Eyes That Never Sleep

In addition to their durability, Dexter detectors are passive, thin-film, bimetallic units. We call them ‘The Eyes That Never Sleep.’” Our detectors are undetectable in perimeter and building security applications until they report an intruder or an assault. By then, it’s too late for an aggressor to evade them or take them out.

Rival detector companies lack our integrated capabilities for Rapid Prototype Engineering (RPE) and Design For Manufacturing (DFM). Their detectors simply cannot perform at the same scale and speed.

Technology Transfer

Rapid Prototype Engineering (RPE) and Design For Manufacturing (DFM) are key infrared systems engineering capabilities that we now offer to our customers. Our RPE and DFM capabilities are built on technology transfers from our state’s 100+-year history as the world’s center of automotive engineering expertise. These capabilities also derive from Michigan’s defense and security centers that earn over $1 billion annually, and Dexter’s nearly 40-year relationship with the University of Michigan’s science and engineering centers.