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Francois Bergeron

Displacement | Microstrain - 0 views

  • MicroStrain offers a range of miniature displacement sensors.  These include contact sensors, non-contact sensors, and signal conditioners. Within our contact sensors, we offer gauging, non-gauging, sub-miniature (very small) and micro-miniature (smallest available on the market) displacement sensor designs.  MicroStrain displacement/position sensors are known as DVRTs (Differential Variable Reluctance Transducers) which are half-bridge LVDTs (Linear Variable Differential Transformers).  Our DVRTs deliver a very high linear stroke range to body length ratio, and can be used in environments where traditional LVDTs are too large.  MicroStrain’s miniature displacement transducers are extremely robust, capable of operating at temperatures up to 175°C in corrosive media such as saline, oil, and brake fluid.  The near frictionless design enables sensors to operate over millions of cycles without wear or degradation in signal quality.
  • croStrain offers a range of miniature displacement sensors.  These include contact sensors, non-contact sensors, and signal conditioners. Within our contact sensors, we offer gauging, non-gauging, sub-miniature (very small) and micro-miniature (smallest available on the market) displacement sensor designs.  MicroStrain displacement/position sensors are known as DVRTs (Differential Variable Reluctance Transducers) which are half-bridge LVDTs (Linear Variable Differential Transformers).  Our DVRTs deliver a very high linear stroke range to body length ratio, and can be used in environments where traditional LVDTs are too large.  MicroStrain’s miniature displacement transducers are extremely robust, capable of operating at temperatures up to 175°C in corrosive media such as saline, oil, and brake fluid.  The near frictionless design enables sensors to operate over millions of cycles without wear or degradation in signal quality. MicroStrain’s displacement sensing products including transducers, signal conditioners, and motherboards. These systems provide highly precise measurement solutions. MicroStrain’s contact displacement transducers deliver highly precise linear measurements with an extremely small, miniature design.  Both gauging and non-gauging displacement transducers are available. Our non-contact displacement transducers are designed to measure the displacement and proximity of a metal target without physical contact. MicroStrain offers wireless, analog, and digital output DVRT signal conditioners. Signal conditioners are required for use with MicroStrain DVRT displacement sensors.   .familyNav1, .familyNav2, .familyNav3, .familyNav4 { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #CCCCCC; color: #FFFFFF; display: block; font-size: 14px; margin: 1px 0; padding: 6px 0 3px 6px; text-decoration: none; } .familyNav1:hover, .familyNav2:hover, .familyNav3:hover, .familyNav4:hover { opacity:1.0; filter:alpha(opacity=100); } .familyNav1:hover, .familyNav1.live { background:#0468AD; } .familyNav2:hover, .familyNav2.live{ background:#32641E; } .familyNav3:hover, .familyNav3.live{ background:#B55A11; } .familyNav4:hover, .familyNav4.live{ background:#76285D; } .familySub { margin: -1px 0 0; opacity:0.7; filter:alpha(opacity=80); font-size:12px; } .familySub img { width: 22px; } WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Steve Bosserman

When Cities Run Themselves | WOUB - 0 views

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    Machines talking to machines No doubt that the Olympics will have a profound effect in shaping London's future. By the time the Games begin, for instance, it will have Europe's largest free WiFi zone, with the city's iconic red phone booths converted, fittingly, into hotspots. But another opportunity London landed earlier this month could have just as much impact, perhaps more. A company called Living PlanIt announced that it will begin testing its "Urban Operating System" in the Greenwich section of the city. What does that mean? Put simply, London would have its own operating system, much as your PC runs on Windows or your Mac runs on Apple's IOS. This ties into the latest hot buzz phrase, "the internet of things," which describes a world where machines talk to other machines. No human interaction required. So, for a city, this means sensors in buildings would connect to sensors in water treatment plants which would connect to sensors in stoplights. It would be one gigantic, computerized urban nervous system, which a lot of experts think is the only way cities can survive a future when they'll contain more than two out of every three people on Earth. Based on what sensors reveal about the location and movement of humans in a section of a city, for instance, buildings will automatically adjust their temperatures, streetlights will dim or brighten, water flow will increase or slow. Or, in the event of a disaster, emergency services would have real-time access to traffic data, trauma unit availability, building blueprints. And soon enough, our smart phones will be able to tap in to the Urban OS. So will our household appliances. This is not some 21st century analogue of the personal jet pack. The Urban OS is the driving force behind a smart city being built from the ground up in northern Portugal. Construction is scheduled to be completed in three years; eventually it will have about 150,000 residents. It will also have more than 100 million sen
Kurt Laitner

Intel CTO: Smart Sensors, Wearable Tech Coming Soon - Hardware - - 0 views

  • He described the process in terms of not only "hard sensors" that track physical attributes such as light, heat, pressure and motion, but also "soft sensors" such as a user's calendar, social network activity and Web browsing habits. "What context awareness does is collect all of that, some of which is up-to-the-minute on the physical sensors and some of which is accumulated incrementally over a long expanse of time through these soft senses, to create devices that really anticipate your needs," he said.
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    hard and soft sensors creating context awareness
Francois Bergeron

Conference Detail for Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Techno... - 0 views

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    "Three-axis distributed fiber optic strain measurement in 3D woven composite structures   Paper 8690-6 Time: 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM Author(s): Matt Castellucci, Evan M. Lally, Sandra Klute, Luna Innovations Inc. (United States); David Lowry, NASA Johnson Space Ctr. (United States) Hide Abstract Add to My Schedule  Recent advancements in composite materials technologies have broken further from traditional designs and require advanced instrumentation and analysis capabilities. Success or failure is highly dependent on design analysis and manufacturing processes. By monitoring smart structures throughout manufacturing and service life, residual and operational stresses can be assessed and structural damage identified. Composite smart structures can be manufactured by integrating fiber optic sensors into existing composite materials processes such as layup, filament winding and three-dimensional weaving. In this work optical fiber was integrated into 3D woven composite parts at a commercial woven products manufacturing facility. The fiber was then used to monitor the structures during a VARTM manufacturing process, and subsequent static and dynamic testing. Low cost telecommunications-grade optical fiber acts as the sensor using a high resolution commercial Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometer (OFDR) system providing distributed strain measurement at spatial resolutions as low as 2mm. Strain measurements using the optical fiber sensors are correlated to resistive strain gauge measurements during static structural loading."
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Blood pressure (BP) measurements with fiber optic pressure sensor. Systolic blood press... - 3 views

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    Another pressure sensor similar to the one FISO sells. Uses a membrane to sent the light back. 
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    this swedish company started to manufacture engine compression control sensors for Volvo cars...
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

BeagleBoard.org - 2014-01-29-project-spotlight-beedome - 0 views

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    "The BeeDome is a computerized system based on the Sitara-processor-powered BeagleBone Black computer as well as a specially designed "cape" plug-in board. BeagleBone Black is connected to the Internet, and stats are uploaded periodically to a website so that the company can closely monitor the nucs. The BeeDome also integrates GE Telaire T6613/T6615 and MG811 sensors to monitor the CO2 level; DS18B20 sensors to monitor temperature; DH22 sensors to monitor humidity and temperature; and Sharp COM-10636 SSR devices to control 120V devices. "Bee" sure to check out ForestDew Apiaries' website for more information on this "unbeelievable" project!"
Francois Bergeron

Wright Center for Sensor Systems Engineering - Cleveland State University - 1 views

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    Better sensors and sensor systems will improve the products for which Ohio is well known - automotive, aerospace, biomedical, agriculture and food processing - and emerging markets such as advanced energy and advanced materials. And, northeast Ohio has significant business presence and world-class research and development capabilities in Instruments, Controls and Electronics. This provides critical enabling capabilities for development and commercialization of sensor and sensor systems technologies.
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

g.Sensors - measure physiological and physical signals, connect directly to the amplifi... - 0 views

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    "Limb Movements This piezo-electric sensor is placed on the ankle to detect movements of the feet during sleep. For investigation of restless leg syndrome (RLS) and periodic limb movements (PLM)."
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Synkera Technologies, Inc. - Synkera - 0 views

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    Jonathan met them at Sensors Expo in Chicago. They have some interesting chemical sensors that can be used in agriculture and other applications. Jonathan was interested in them for lab-on-a-chip. 
kozak30k

Robot Sensors - RobotShop - 0 views

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    Many, many sensors.
kozak30k

Robot Sensors - 1 views

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    More sensors.
Steve Bosserman

'Biochemiresistor' sensor is fast, super-sensitive | KurzweilAI - 4 views

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    this sensor is amazing ! very close to the vision we have for personal portable sensors: fast to immediate reading, detection of any compound...
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

AN OPTICAL FIBRE SENSOR FOR USE IN A TISSUE CUTTING TOOL - 1 views

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    AN OPTICAL FIBRE SENSOR FOR USE IN A TISSUE CUTTING TOOL
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Beyond The Internet Of Things Towards A Sensor Commons | Techdirt - 2 views

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    fantastic !
Francois Bergeron

World Emerging Sensors Markets - 1 views

  • Fiber optic, MEMS, wireless and touch sensors are discussed separately, as these sensors are expected to play a significant role in the sensors market globally over the next 5 - 7 years.
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

A 3-Axis Optical Force/Torque Sensor for Prostate Needle Placement in Magnetic Resonanc... - 0 views

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    A 3-Axis Optical Force/Torque Sensor for Prostate Needle Placement in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Environments
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