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Perimeter Security Enhanced by Lockheed Martin’s VAMS Solutions

LMSSC (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center)’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC), has exhibited a ground-breaking Versatile Advanced Monitoring System (VAMS), for border security solutions for both commercial and government agencies.

21 Aug 2010

Viticision’s New, Compact, High-Tech Sensors Introduced in Vineyards

Viticision’s new high-tech miniature sensors are providing a lot of help to the vineyard owners

20 Aug 2010

SICK Sensor Solutions for Packaging Manner’s Confectionary Products

Josef Manner & Comp. AG, one of the foremost confectionary producers in Austria, has begun using Sick’s sensor solutions for packing their wide-ranging product series, to guarantee effective production and packing processes. These sensors work on a number of tasks that include controlling, sorting, counting and identifying jobs. Customized sensors are available to suit varied designs and sizes of products, reactive interference sources, and overcrowded or restricted places of installation.

20 Aug 2010

MEMS Seismic Sensors and Portable Data Acquisition System Aid Monitoring of Earthquake-Prone Areas

Colibrys and Digitexx have declared the development of a portable Structural Health Monitoring system that is being utilized from March 2010 in a new construction in Vina del Mar, Chile.

20 Aug 2010

Two Dimensional OPTImess Laser Sensor Aids Precise Measurements

The enhanced utilization of laser sensors in component positioning or geometric calibration ensures quality protection even without shifting the objects that need to be analyzed

20 Aug 2010

OmniVision Technologies Introduce OV7727 for High-End Imaging Cameras

The OmniVision Technologies, a global promoter of improved digital imaging, has launched an advanced 1/13-inch VGA sensor, the OV7727, for the deluxe micro thin notebook camera market.

20 Aug 2010

CalAmp’s T96SR Wireless Modem Ensures Precise Weather Data for NOAA Mission

Compiling weather data at the expected time can weaken the consequences of environmental pollution, population size and global warming.

20 Aug 2010

University of New Mexico Selects BTI Systems’ Wireless MedCARE Launches VivaTRAK™ for Patient Care

Wireless MedCARE, a wireless sensor information provider to healthcare systems, declared that it has acquired FDA 510(k) authorization to commercialize its sensor mediated care system, VivaTRAK™.

20 Aug 2010

DARPA Grants $6.3 Million to GE to Create Bio-Inspired Sensors

In association with Air Force Research Laboratory, University of Exeter, and State University of Albany, researchers of GE Global Research, which is the technology development wing of GE, has secured a $6.3 million endowment from DARPA i.e. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for a tenure of four years, to design a novel sensor, that is both bio-inspired and nanostructured, to enable speedier and discerning choices, among the hazardous explosives, chemical threats and combat instruments.

19 Aug 2010

OGC Sensor Planning Service Schedules Earth Observation Sensors

The Open Geospatial Consortium, an international consortium setting geospatial standards, is pursuing remarks on the "Earth Observation Satellite Tasking Extension for OGC® Sensor Planning Service (SPS).

19 Aug 2010

BSAC Joins the IPSO Alliance for Sensor Enabled Smart Object Communication

The IPSO Alliance, the organization describing the "Internet of Things," declared the latest association of the University of Berkeley, Sensor, Actuator Center and California (BSAC) with IPSO.

19 Aug 2010

LumaSense Technologies Acquire Opsens’ technology for Power Grid Reliability

LumaSense Technologies, a leading supplier of temperature and gas sensing equipments, declared that, it has secured the Opsens’ PowerSens system fiber optic sensing technology, for use in the energy companies for the detection of transformer points and to execute intense voltage equipment temperature sensing.

From Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 19 Aug 2010

Regal Group Inc. Acquires RFID Pioneer UHF Logistics

In continuance to the news released on 15th July 2010, Regal Group, Inc has acknowledged, that it has officially concluded the acquirement of UHF (UHF Logistics Ltd), a Hong-Kong based enterprise, the primary manufacturers of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) applications.

18 Aug 2010

ResearchInChina Unveils New Report on Worldwide FPC Market Trends

A new report entitled, ‘Global China Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) Industry Report’, has been made public, by ResearchinChina, for the year 2009-2010.

18 Aug 2010

LiDAR and SAR Technology Facilitates Precise Chesapeake Bay Mapping

The USDA Forest Service ecologist Megan Lang and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Greg McCarty mapped wetlands of Chesapeake Bay by blending LiDAR (light detection and ranging) an airborne laser sensor with a modified "synthetic aperture radar" (SAR) satellite sensor

18 Aug 2010