QBit S.r.l.

Qbit was established in Florence in 1999 to meet the technological requests of several small- and medium-sized local enterprises in the fields of optics and opto-electronics. Florence and its district have been offering a large variety of opportunities in these fields, since the end of the XIX century, thanks to both the University and related research laboratories, and long-standing industries such as Officine Galileo (nowadays SELEX-ES) from which originated a broad background knowledge. For example, the early infra-red light based sensors developed for refrigerant gas leak detection, have been produced in the framework of a collaboration with companies originating from the professional heritage of the Officine Galileo.