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New Report Focuses on Machine Health Monitoring Market by Product

Machine health monitoring is the best way of maintenance to meet the production requirements of in a timely or efficient manner. It is the process of monitoring the health of a machine with the intent to anticipate the mechanical wear and failure. Machine health monitoring is a part of predictive maintenance technique.

30 Jun 2014

Raytheon's Satellite Sensors and Radars Provide Safer Navigation for Arctic Ships

Extreme weather, vast distances and stretches of darkness have long made it difficult to protect Arctic territories, and the problem has grown as ice fields recede and open swaths of ocean year-round. Now new tools are helping nations head off the evolving risks, allowing better communication and monitoring at the northern tip of the Earth.

From Raytheon Company 30 Jun 2014

£50,000 Dynamic Demand Challenge Won by Smart Heating Controller, Hestia

A smart heating controller that enables households to better regulate energy demand has won the £50,000 Dynamic Demand Challenge, run by Nesta and supported by the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

30 Jun 2014

New MarketsandMarkets Report on Thermocouples and High End Optical Pyrometers

According to a new market research report of "Thermocouples and High End Optical Pyrometer Market by product Types, Applications (Automotive, Petrochemical, Consumer Utility, Glass, and Aerospace & Defense) and Geography (North America, Europe, APAC, RoW) - Analysis & Forecast to 2010 - 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the thermocouples market is estimated to grow to $1.42 Billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 3.70% and the Optical Pyrometers market is estimated to grow to $238.17 Million by 2020 at a CAGR of 13.81% from 2014 to 2020.

30 Jun 2014

OMRON to Release Communications Type Amplifier Unit to its E9NC-T Series Smart Sensors

OMRON Corporation will release a Communications Type Amplifier Unit E9NC-TA0 on July 1, which easily transmits data to a programmable logic controller and the like at high speed, as a new addition to E9NC-T series Contact-type Smart Sensors.

From Omron 30 Jun 2014

STMicroelectronics Adds LVDS Drivers with US 300krad QML-V Qualification to Rad-Hard Devices Portfolio

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a leading supplier of high-performance components for space applications, has extended its portfolio of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) devices by adding a series of LVDS drivers, receivers, and multiplexers carrying the US 300krad QML-V qualification.

From STMicroelectronics 28 Jun 2014

Novel Technology Can Touch Enable Any Surface

Neonode Inc.,, the optical-touch technology licensing company, today officially launched zForce™AIR™, a breakthrough and game-changing technology which can touch enable any surface.

28 Jun 2014

Sandia Transfers Copperhead Synthetic Aperture Radar IED Detection Technology to the US Army

Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture radar (MiniSAR) system to do just that, some experts didn’t believe it.

28 Jun 2014

Quest Solution Enters Agreement to Use Zatar Multi-Sensor Integration IoT Platform

via PRWEB - Quest Solution, Inc, "The Company", is pleased to announce the signing of a commercial agreement with Zebra Technologies to use Zatar, Zebra's Internet of Things (IoT) platform.

28 Jun 2014

STMicroelectronics’ Dynamic Efficiency Microcontrollers Extend Battery Life with Always-On System Awareness

New STM32 Dynamic Efficiency(TM) microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, improve the power-saving performance of data batching - the technique also used in Google's latest Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system to maximize battery life - and extend the advantages to many more applications besides smartphones and tablets.

28 Jun 2014

Modular ‘Input-Puppet’ with Integrated Sensors Can Take Different Shapes

Remember those molecule models made from sticks and balls you could assemble to study complex molecules back in school? Something similar has taken shape in the Interactive Geometry Lab at ETH Zurich.

28 Jun 2014

In-Fiber Light Powers Smart Optical Fiber Sensor

By fusing together the concepts of active fiber sensors and high-temperature fiber sensors, a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has created an all-optical high-temperature sensor for gas flow measurements that operates at record-setting temperatures above 800 degrees Celsius.

28 Jun 2014

Cosmic-Ray Soil Moisture Sensors May Help Improve Watershed Hydrology Models

Soil moisture measurements are needed to improve our understanding of water availability in rural and urban areas.

28 Jun 2014

EDN China Selects Atmel XSense Among ‘Top 10 Most Influential Technologies for the Future’

Atmel Corporation, a global leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced Atmel XSense® was selected by EDN China as a "Top 10 Most Influential Technologies for the Future." The company was presented with the award during EDN's Award Ceremony on June 26 in Shanghai.

27 Jun 2014

Global Gas Meter Market Forecast to Grow at 9.33% CAGR till 2018

The development of meter data management applications has led to better operational functioning of utilities. With the introduction of a centralized management system, the trend of retaining data in each department has almost come to an end.

27 Jun 2014

Sensors News

New Report Focuses on Machine Health Monitoring Market by Product

Raytheon's Satellite Sensors and Radars Provide Safer Navigation for Arctic Ships

£50,000 Dynamic Demand Challenge Won by Smart Heating Controller, Hestia

New MarketsandMarkets Report on Thermocouples and High End Optical Pyrometers

OMRON to Release Communications Type Amplifier Unit to its E9NC-T Series Smart Sensors

STMicroelectronics Adds LVDS Drivers with US 300krad QML-V Qualification to Rad-Hard Devices Portfolio

Novel Technology Can Touch Enable Any Surface

Sandia Transfers Copperhead Synthetic Aperture Radar IED Detection Technology to the US Army

Quest Solution Enters Agreement to Use Zatar Multi-Sensor Integration IoT Platform

STMicroelectronics’ Dynamic Efficiency Microcontrollers Extend Battery Life with Always-On System Awareness

Modular ‘Input-Puppet’ with Integrated Sensors Can Take Different Shapes

In-Fiber Light Powers Smart Optical Fiber Sensor

Cosmic-Ray Soil Moisture Sensors May Help Improve Watershed Hydrology Models

EDN China Selects Atmel XSense Among ‘Top 10 Most Influential Technologies for the Future’

Global Gas Meter Market Forecast to Grow at 9.33% CAGR till 2018

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