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City Technology Wins Prestigious Factory of the Year Award

Honeywell Company, City Technology, the world’s largest manufacturer of gas sensors, has won three awards in the prestigious 2014 Best Factory Awards run by Cranfield School of Management in association with Works ...

From Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions 1 Oct 2014

New Way to Assess Biosensing Response Enhances Detection of Rotavirus

Researchers at UPM have discovered and patented a new measurement method that increases the capacity to detect biological substances found in optical biosensors.

1 Oct 2014

Global Optical Fiber Sensor Sales Reaches $1.89 Billion in 2013

Optical fiber sensor (OFS) is a new type of sensor with light wave as a carrier and optical fiber as a medium, possessing high sensitivity, interference immunity, anti-corrosion, high-pressure resistance and other merits, thus being widely used in national defense, petrochemical, electric power, infrastructure, medical, etc..

1 Oct 2014

Navy Awards Alion $34M Contract to Equip Warfighters with Latest Weapon Systems and Sensors

To support the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane, Indiana’s mission to equip warfighters with the most updated and effective weapon systems and sensors, Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a contract valued at up to $34 million.

1 Oct 2014

Hollysys to Provide Distributed Control System for Liaoning Suizhong Power Plant

Hollysys Automation Technologies, Ltd. ("Hollysys" or the "Company"), a leading provider of automation and control technologies and applications in China, announced today that it successfully signed the contract to provide its proprietary Distributed Control System ("DCS") for 2×800MW power generating units in Liaoning Suizhong Power Plant (Suizhong Power Plant) for its DCS reconstruction.

1 Oct 2014

Renesas Expands RX100 Series of Microcontrollers for IoT Applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, is reducing design complexities for developers of building automation, portable healthcare, smart grid, wearables, and other emerging applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) with an expansion of its innovative RX100 Series of microcontrollers (MCUs).

1 Oct 2014

New Report on Global and Chinese Air Quality Sensor Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global and Chinese Air Quality Sensor Industry Report 2014" report to their offering.

1 Oct 2014

CyberOptics Develops Unmatched 3D Sensor Technology with Leading-Edge Capabilities

CyberOptics® Corporation (NASDAQ: CYBE), a world leader in intelligent inspection and sensing solutions for electronics assembly and semiconductor process equipment, announces ground-breaking, proprietary 3D sensing ...

From CyberOptics Corporation 30 Sep 2014

Advanced Routers for Patriot Defense System Developed by Raytheon and TELDAT

Raytheon Company is partnering with TELDAT to develop and produce advanced militarized routers for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system. TELDAT engineers and technicians will design, integrate and qualify this key communications networking technology for Patriot. Under the initial contract, the engineering teams from each company can begin design work and trade studies.

From Raytheon Company 30 Sep 2014

Mercury Receives Major Signal Processing Subsystems Order for Surface Ship Radar Application

Mercury Systems, Inc., a leading provider of affordable, commercially developed, open sensor processing systems and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications, announced it received a $23 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for high performance signal processing subsystems and related services for a surface ship radar application.

30 Sep 2014

New Market Report on Sensors and Other Components for Gestural Recognition

Gesture recognition will gradually replace today's multifunctional touch screens with the result that the market for sensors and related components used in gestural control systems will grow from $770 million in 2014 to about $3.5 billion in 2019. This according to a just-released report from NanoMarkets, "Gestural Recognition: Sensors, Cameras and Other Technology Opportunities—2014."

30 Sep 2014

Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors Hold Potential for Monitoring Areas at Risk of Landslides

Optical fiber sensors are used around the world to monitor the condition of difficult-to-access segments of infrastructure—such as the underbellies of bridges, the exterior walls of tunnels, the feet of dams, long pipelines and railways in remote rural areas.

30 Sep 2014

Chinese Mobile Image Sensor Market Forecast to Grow at 15.35% CAGR over the Period 2013-2018

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Mobile Image Sensor Market in China 2014-2018" report to their offering.

30 Sep 2014

Tata Power's SED to Produce Honeywell's Tactical Advanced Land Inertial Navigator in India

Honeywell Aerospace has signed a licensing agreement with Tata Power's Strategic Engineering Division (SED), enabling it to produce Honeywell's Tactical Advanced Land Inertial Navigator, or "TALIN" in India. This Honeywell-patented technology enables vehicles and artillery to navigate very precisely, even where GPS satellite guidance is not available, to increase troop safety and maximize mission success.

30 Sep 2014

Hard On the Outside but Sensitive at Heart : Sensors with Hardened Sensor Front Extend Life Time

Cavity pressure and cavity temperature sensors in the injection mold are the central components for an all-over process monitoring and process control in injection molding.

From Priamus System Technologies AG 29 Sep 2014

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City Technology Wins Prestigious Factory of the Year Award

New Way to Assess Biosensing Response Enhances Detection of Rotavirus

Global Optical Fiber Sensor Sales Reaches $1.89 Billion in 2013

Navy Awards Alion $34M Contract to Equip Warfighters with Latest Weapon Systems and Sensors

Hollysys to Provide Distributed Control System for Liaoning Suizhong Power Plant

Renesas Expands RX100 Series of Microcontrollers for IoT Applications

New Report on Global and Chinese Air Quality Sensor Industry

CyberOptics Develops Unmatched 3D Sensor Technology with Leading-Edge Capabilities

Advanced Routers for Patriot Defense System Developed by Raytheon and TELDAT

Mercury Receives Major Signal Processing Subsystems Order for Surface Ship Radar Application

New Market Report on Sensors and Other Components for Gestural Recognition

Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors Hold Potential for Monitoring Areas at Risk of Landslides

Chinese Mobile Image Sensor Market Forecast to Grow at 15.35% CAGR over the Period 2013-2018

Tata Power's SED to Produce Honeywell's Tactical Advanced Land Inertial Navigator in India

Hard On the Outside but Sensitive at Heart : Sensors with Hardened Sensor Front Extend Life Time

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