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Article Type: Web sites, patent abstracts and book review From: Sensor Review, Volume 32, Issue 3
Microstrain
This US based, privately held company with a tagline of “Little Sensors, Big Ideas” manufactures smart, embedded micro-displacement transducers, inertial sensors, and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks.
Microstrain’s state-of-the-art and comprehensive web site is divided into four main areas: products, applications, company, and contacts and support. Each of these tabs portals to in-depth information.
Microstrain’s four products – wireless sensor networks, energy harvesting, inertial sensors, and displacement sensors – feature a multimedia “system overview”, a customized “configure your system”, and a “product comparison”. The six applications in aerospace, biomedical, civil engineering, environmental, industrial manufacturing, and robotics industries contain videos, white papers, case studies, and application notes.
The company pages list its awards, events, news, employment, and research papers. The contacts and support features an impressive “live chat”and Skype, in addition to the company’s terms, warranties, RMA, trial systems, and FAQ.
Self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks and data
The focus of self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks and data(SomSed) at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg is to promote cooperative research and expand on a facility’s boundaries.
SomSed’s web site, translated into English by Google Translate,describes its research program which is based on the themes of sensors, sensor and data networks, and self-organizing networks, in the fields of logistics,surveillance and aircraft and marine engineering.
The site documents more than 30 funded projects as well as its publications.
Detcon, Inc
Detcon, an international company headquartered in Texas, USA, designs and manufactures a wide range of industrial grade gas detection sensors and electronic control systems.
Detcon’s homepage highlights its products, press releases, trade show schedule, and employment. The rest of this clear and concise web site provides:details on its product line of sensors, control systems, gas anaylzers, and alarm stations; an extensive, international library of varied documents; and a product video.
Radio frequency circuits and systems research
The nearly ten-year old radio frequency circuits and systems research (RFCSR)group at the University of Florida has generated many publications and patents,and graduated 13 PhD students.
RFCSR’s well-laid out web site emphasizes its current research on radar sensors, RF positioning, wireless power transmission and energy harvesting, high efficiency power amplifier for digital radio, high frequency devices and circuits in nanotechnologies, high efficiency electronics for plasma generation,as well as 11 past projects.
The rest of the web site includes news, people, useful links, and a full list of publications.
Coalesenses
Coalesenses, a German spin-off company from the University of Lübeck,provides innovative solutions for wireless sensor networks.
Coalesenses’ homepage promotes five of its flagship products: IPv6 dual network stack, wireless sensor solutions, solar power harvesting, wireless sensor devices, wireless sensor modules, along with information on its wireless sensor technology.
The rest of this easy-to-navigate web site is comprised of additional company information, including projects; technology applications and research; all products which range from solutions to iSense modules, devices, kits and software; and a download section of documentation, software and other resources.
Future Analog Systems Technologies Lab
The Future Analog Systems Technologies Lab (FAST) covers a broad range of topics related to analog, mixed-signal, RF and mm-wave circuits, with an emphasis on novel architectures and circuits.
FAST’s web site gives an overview of its research on: co-existence of heterogeneous programmable systems, low-voltage circuits implemented in modern nanometer length processes, ultra-low power circuits for cellular based systems,mm-wave CMOS circuits for communication and imaging, and high-speed I/O.
The site also contains the lab’s publications and presentations,members, and a links tab to both the University of Washington Wireless Sensing Lab and the University of Washington System-On-Chip Lab.
Adaptive Signal Processing for Emerging Communications Technologies
The Adaptive Signal Processing for Emerging Communications Technologies(ASPECT) group at the University of Notre Dame is engaged in research on adaptive signal processing and parameter estimation for emerging wireless communication applications.
ASPECT’s straightforward site addresses the issues, among others, of:adaptive signal processing, the set membership filtering (SMF) concept, adaptive algorithm approaches, new applications, and multiuser detection.
SMF theory, audio demonstrations, beamforming, publications, and personnel are other links available on ASPECT’s web site.
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