Using the 25th Anniversary of the founding of NovaSensor as a celebration backdrop, the MEMS Technology Summit will be held at Stanford University on October 19-20, 2010. The event will celebrate the25th anniversary of the company founded by MEMS industry pioneers Dr. Kurt Petersen, Dr. Janusz Bryzek and Mr. Joseph R. Mallon Jr. (shown in the picture). Other […]
MicroStrain’s Wireless Sensor Products now Integrate with National Instruments’ LabVIEW
MicroStrain’s G-Link and SG-Link sensor products now easily integrate with National Instruments’ LabVIEW graphical system design software. The seamlessly connectivity to LabVIEW facilitates data acquisition, graphical display, analysis and data storage for MicroStrain’s wireless acceleration and strain systems. For a link to the LabVIEW driver for G-Link click here and for SG-Link click here
Balluff’s IO-Link–based RFID Connects Easily to Networks
Balluff’s IO-Link protocol allows users to connect an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system to an industrial network via a gateway using standard discrete sensor wiring. Instead of using barcode systems that have high installation costs because of shielded RS232 cables and RS232 communication and an I/O enclosure, the IO-Link-based RFID easily connects with a single […]
Yole Développement Sees Double Digit Growth for MEMS & Sensors
Yole Développement, a market research and business development consulting company, expects the market for MEMS & sensors in cell phones to experience double digit growth, expanding from $3.5B in 2009 to $7.9B in 2015. For those in terested in this growth, Yole Développement is presenting a free of charge webinar on MEMS & Sensors for cell […]
Customized Wireless Sensing & Training Courses offered by Libelium
Libelium, maker of the Waspmote wireless sensing is offering a couple of sensing design opportunities to potential customers. First off all, they will integrate a custom sensor with their Waspmote wireless sensing capability for a specific Wireless Sensing network (WSN) application. Waspmote is a low power wireless mesh network that uses ZigBee or wireless technologies. […]
RF-Enabled Sensing Benefits from ProximaRF Kit
ProximaRF, a company that specializes in high frequency (13.56 MHz) RFID has developed an RFID–enabled sensor kit that provides users access to Melexis MLX90129 RFID sensor transponder IC. Using the ProximaRF DVK90129 reader and evaluation kit, developers can immediately read and write code to the RFID IC using a plug and play USB high frequency […]
Freescale Merges Accelerometer and 32-Bit Micro into One Package
A tiny 3 x 3 x 1 mm package provides the home for a 3-axis accelerometer and a 32-bit microcontroller (MCU). Part of an approach that Freescale Semiconductor calls its Xtrinsic sensing solutions, the MMA9550L addresses both the sensing and computing needs of the rapidly proliferating touch sensing applications. As if this wasn’t enough, the package also […]
Customizable Energy Harvesting Development Kit
Microchip and Cymbet have combined forces to offer what is being called the world’s first customizable energy harvesting development kit. The XLP Kit uses Microchip’s PIC24F16KA102 microcontroller with eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology and Cymbet’s EnerChip EH Eval-08 Energy Harvesting Board. The EH board converts solar to electrical energy and stores it in an EnerChip […]
Humidity and Temperature Sensor Qualified to Automotive AEC-Q100 Requirements
Many environments require special qualification testing to prove that the product can withstand more than usual application requirements. This can include Underwriters Laboratories (UL), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) or in the case of automotive, the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC). Sensirion’s SHT21 humidity and temperature sensor has passed rigorous AEC Q100 qualification testing. The capacitive type […]
Kistler Single-Axis IEPE Accelerometer Weighs in at Just 3.5 Grams
Kistler’s recently announced Type 8640A accelerometer is an Integral Electronics Piezoelectric (IEPE) unit that has an IEEE TEDS (Transducer Electronic Data Sheet) option. Besides weighing only 3.5 grams, the 0.394 x 0.394-inch sensor has an integral 10-32 connector and a 5-40 UNC-2B stud mount as part of its hermetically-sealed, welded titanium housing. The internal ceramic […]
