SES Solid State Data Recorders
The S3DR product family is a low cost, high performance, rugged solution to the processing and data recording needs of environmentally challenging embedded systems, such as those found in aerospace, defence, naval, vehicle and safety-related or high performance industrial applications.

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SES offer a family of Solid State Data Recorders into markets that demand performance in the harshest of environments.
These data recorders offer high-speed, large capacity storage to the challenging demands associated with Aerospace and Naval applications. The S3DR family is suitable to a wide variety of applications and supports numerous data acquisition, I/O and recording options.
Products within the S3DR family cover the complete spectrum of size and performance that are required to address all sectors of this marketplace. Many of the products are designed for customisation, allowing the range to address bespoke as well as standard requirements. Additional interfaces continue to be added, often in response to standards initiatives or specific market demand, so if an interface appears to be missing, don't hesitate to contact us as it may be in development. The products offer exceptional performance and value for money.
SES will continue to develop the product family to ensure that the S3DR range always offers the fastest, smallest, highest capacity data recording solutions in their respective market place.
The S3DR-E product offers data rates of 500Mbs, with storage capacity in excess of 300GB, while the S3DR-C offers data rates of 60Mbs with storage on high speed PC cards (max capacity 16GB). SES have three further recorder families with performance in-between these extremes.
Learn more about our S3DR products here:
Solid State Data Recorder - Fascia Mounted
Solid State Data Recorder - Fascia Mounted Plus
Solid State Data Recorder - Fascia Mounted Expanded
Solid State Data Recorder - Fascia Mounted Bulk Storage
Solid State Data Recorder - Compact
Solid State Data Recorder - Compact Plus
Solid State Data Recorder - Compact Expandable
Solid State Data Recorder - Compact Voice Recorder
Solid State Data Recorder - Compact Bulk
Solid State Data Recorder - Expandable
Solid State Data Recorder - Engine Monitoring Unit
Multi-Channel Video and Data Recorder
The flexibility of design and architecture built in to the S3DR range ensure that the right tool is always available for the right job, with a minimum of bespoke adjustment and modification. SES are widely experienced in a variety of design and manufacturing areas, and have successfully completed many diverse projects in which this type of flexibility and expertise is essential.
The S3DR range of products already forms the basis of a number of COTS+ data recording solutions for a number of key military and civil programmes, including:
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Land
SES have delivered S3DR data recording solutions into the Warrior and CVR armoured vehicles. Commercial versions of the products are available for use in carry-on installations, capable of being powered from a 12V DC power source.
SES are in the process of developing very lightweight, battery-powered devices for use by infantry.
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Sea
SES S3DR recorders are in-use with most current submarine types employed by the UK Royal Navy. Installations have been provided for Trafalgar, Trident and Astute class submarines. Surface vessels using SES products include Type 22, Type 23, Type 45 and Brunei Offshore Patrol Vessels.
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Air
SES data recorders are widely used in the aerospace community, where extremes of environmental performance are required.
S3DR recorders are used on the following aircraft: Tornado GR4, F16, JSF, Eurofighter Typhoon, Jaguar, C130J, EW-Sentry, Nimrod MR1, Merlin EH101, Apache, Puma, Lynx, Gazelle, Eurocopter AS355, Airbus Beluga, Mi-17, Sky-X UAV, Eagle 1 UAV, and Meteor Missile. These recorders are used to provide a number mission recording, Health Usage Monitoring (HUMS) and flight test solutions for operational applications.
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Civil
SES S3DR data recorders are equally applicable to civil and military applications, providing high-speed data acquisition and recording applications for many different uses.
Recent civil applications have included police surveillance recording, power-line surveillance systems, airborne RF recordings for air traffic control research, as well as recording of multiple data sources during surgical procedures.
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Military
S3DR data recorders are designed to operate in the harshest of environments. Such harsh environments are typical of the products use in extreme, military-type applications.
The S3DR range of products fully support these extremes of temperature, vibration, shock, acceleration, contaminants, EMC, sand, water and dust.
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