KWJ Engineering, gas detection sensor and instruments manufacturer based in California has announced the development of extremely thin and durable Screen Printed Electrochemical Gas Sensors also called SPEC.
The new sensors are low power, low cost and extremely thin sensors that can be integrated into wireless platforms. To integrate gas sensors into wireless devices and smartphones, KWJ Engineering has developed this gas sensor technology using printed electronics. Funding for its development was provided by the National Science Foundation. The Screen Printed Electrochemical Gas Sensors will be featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronic Show being held at Las Vegas between 10 and 13 January.
The President of KWJ Engineering and the inventor of the sensor solution, Dr Joseph Stetter explained that the patent pending sensor platform will open the opportunity for safety sensor applications that were previously inconceivable. The developed sensors can detect toxic gases including carbon monoxide and are tiny enough to be integrated inside a wireless device. This breakthrough in gas sensing, as stated by Dr Stetter will vastly improve safety.
The cutting-edge gas sensors can be integrated into wireless modules as well as in smartphone platforms thus providing an alert and protection from dangerous toxic gases and chemical threats, thus improving the overall quality of health and providing an understanding of the air quality around them. In the future the sensors can be integrated into wearable designs that can be integrated into a person’s clothing or be worn on the skin to enable wireless health monitoring.
Source: http://www.kwjengineering.com