Eighteen New Products Win Sensors Magazine's Best of Sensors Expo Awards at This Year's Sensors Expo & Conference in Detroit.DETROIT Detroit, city, United States Detroit (dĭtroit`), city (1990 pop. 1,027,974), seat of Wayne co., SE Mich., on the Detroit River and between lakes St. Clair and Erie; inc. as a city 1815. -- Top Honors Go to Products Expected to Impact the Future of Products, Systems, and Daily Life The editors of Sensors
 ),n. , including potential impact on the way people work, timeliness and availability, distinctiveness, and the ability to serve a real need. "These awards highlight products that have the greatest potential to change the way people work and live," said Barbara Barbara maid exemplifying personal and domestic neatness. [Br. Lit.: Old Curiosity Shop] See : Orderliness G. Goode, Editorial Director for Sensors and Frontline front·line also front line n. 1. A front or boundary, especially one between military, political, or ideological positions. 2. Basketball See frontcourt. 3. Football The linemen of a team. Solutions Magazines. "Sensors are approaching ubiquity Ubiquity See also Omnipresence. Burma-Shave their signs seen as “verses of the wayside throughout America.” [Am. Commerce and Folklore: Misc. thanks to innovations such as the ones we recognize with the Best of Sensors Expo awards. Because these products work behind the scenes, most of us do not fully appreciate their impact, but that fact makes it no less real." Gold, silver, and bronze awards Several organizations issue awards with this name:
SENSORS PRODUCTS (self-contained devices that detect a property
and produce a signal, and may or may not include "smarts"):
-- A Gold award was given to Crossbow Technology Inc.'s NAV420, a
clever, real-time position, velocity, attitude, and heading system
equipped with a built-in GPS receiver, MEMS accelerometers,
MEMS-based rate sensor, and magnetometer. It allows local position
and heading information tied in with location data for
applications such as land vehicle guidance, UAV control, and
platform stabilization. www.xbow.com
-- Silver awards were presented to four products.
(1) The Terella 6 from Clymer Technologies is a 6
degree-of-freedom motion device that cleverly combines
magnetic sensors, accelerometers, signal conditioning, and
processing in a package the size of an AA battery. It senses
attitude-independent compass heading, roll, pitch, yaw, as
well as angular velocity and linear acceleration in 3 axes
without depending on an inertial reference frame. It is useful
for navigation, biomechanical monitoring and automotive safety
applications. www.clymertechnologies.com
(2) The TriRate from MEMSense is a little triaxial micromachined
angular rate sensor. The judges admired the temperature
output, which is helpful for compensation techniques, and the
two digital self-test inputs that excite each axis to make
sure sensors and signal-conditioning circuits are working
right. www.memsense.com
(3) The PSO1 Pneumatic Sensor from MTS Communications & Sensors
Inc., pneumatic/hydraulic device, detects the position of a
piston in a cylinder with an accuracy of +/-10 microns. It
works by coupling microwaves of different frequencies, with
the cylinder acting as the waveguide. According to the judges,
this is a very clever and amazingly accurate product.
www.mts-web.de
(4) The 4002 Charge Type Accelerometer from Vibra-Metrics,
designed for turbine monitoring, jet engine applications, flue
gas atomizers, and experimental projects, can survive working
temperatures up to 900 degrees F. Its extreme sensitivity and
excellent frequency response are nice, too.
www.vibrametrics.com
-- Bronze awards were presented to three products:
(1) The UVX 300 UV Luminescence Sensor from EMX Industries enables
a low-cost method for performing quality control and aiding in
certain assembly operations on a huge range of products. It is
a stellar example of a low-tech solution applied to high-tech
automation problems. www.emxinc.com
(2) Keyence Corporation of America's Laser Confocal Displacement
Meter, the LT 9000 distinguishes itself from the competition
by sweeping. It combines a tuning fork with an oscillating
unit to create a surface-scanning laser. The product is
designed for profile and displacement measurements without
concern for target color or angle. www.keyence.com
(3) Sensotherm's OCD Platinum Temperature Sensor is an RTD the
size and shape of a very small chicklet (about 2 by 2 mm). The
sensor handles a temperature range of -70 degrees C to
400 degrees C, and the judges foresee a wide market in home
appliances. www.sensotherm.de
COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING PRODUCTS (products that transmit sensor
data and/or link sensors with each other or with computers or
controllers):
-- The Gold award was presented to the Sensicast Development System
from Sensicast Systems, Inc., which is a wireless sensor network
management tool designed to work with all popular sensor
networking hardware. It lets engineers develop and control
bidirectional, multihop sensor networks, displaying real-time and
historical data. www.sensicast.com
-- Silver awards were presented to five products.
(1) The MICAz from Crossbow Technology Inc. This is the latest
incarnation of the company's Smart Dust wireless sensor
network products. The product is small, battery powered, and
designed for high-bandwidth applications that require reliable
operation, even in harsh indoor environments. The RF
transceiver is 802.15.4/ZigBee compliant and includes hardware
encryption for data security. www.xbow.com.
(2) The Airborne Wireless LAN Node Module from DPAC Technologies
Corp. lets OEMs add LAN and Internet connectivity easily to
one or more sensors. The highly integrated 802.11b wireless
module includes a radio, base band processor, application
processor, and software. The built-in Web server allows
engineers to interact directly with sensor applications,
reducing development time. www.dpactech.com
(3) The EM2420 from Ember Corp. is a radio chip that lets
engineers add wireless mesh networking to applications. It is
designed to comply with the 802.15.4 standard and is
compatible with ZigBee. In combination with supporting
networking software and development tools, the RF chip
promises new capabilities for wireless sensing, control, and
device management in all kinds of industries. www.ember.com
(4) The ZigBee Enabled Platform with RF Transceiver from Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc. is a full RF transceiver data modem
combined with an 8-bit microcontroller and ICs for
acceleration and pressure sensing. The judges say this product
will make it convenient for OEMs to deliver products
conforming to the ZigBee wireless industrial communication
standard. www.motorola.com/zigbee
(5) The ZMD44101 Single Chip RF Transceiver from ZMD America, Inc.
This transceiver is designed for wireless monitoring and
control in industrial, residential, and home applications. It
uses the 900 MHz band, supporting both the EU and North
American frequencies. Its power requirements are modest,
thanks to an external real-time clock that wakes it up for
beacon reception in a star network. Temperature specs are
(-40 degrees C to 85 degrees C). www.zmd.biz
-- A Bronze award was given to i-Bean Sensors Network Monitoring
Software from Millennial Net, which automatically discovers and
displays active wireless sensor endpoints, routers, and gateways,
allowing engineers to view and control the sensor network
environment from a single station. www.millennial.net
DATA ACQUISITION PRODUCTS (products whose primary purpose is to
collect sensor data):
-- A Silver award in the category was awarded to Agile Link from
MicroStrain, Inc., a wireless system offering high-speed data
acquisition for use with strain gauges, accelerometers, and
millivolt-level inputs. It can use a wide array of frequencies
through software configuration, and thus allows multiple nodes to
communicate without interference. The judges say that it will
enable actual test of setups that previously had to be simulated.
www.microstrain.com
TECHNOLOGIES (products that are important primarily because of the
technology innovation upon which they are based):
-- A Gold award was given to The QTC PILLS from Peratech Limited
which, when deformed by compression, twisting, or stretching, can
transform from a virtually perfect insulator to a metal-like
conductor. Their resistance goes from 10 megohms to less than 1
ohm over a smooth, repeatable curve that drops exponentially. The
response is tunable to the forces applied, and it's reversible.
www.paratech.co.uk
-- The judges gave a Silver award to The Rejustor from Microbridge
Technologies. The Rejustor is made to trim passive micro
resistors -- up or down, for thousands of times -- to a few ppm
precision. Its obvious apps are in electronics, but it would be
equally handy for the sensor industry where you need to trim
resistors for initial setup, calibration, and recalibration.
www.mbridgetech.com
Best of Sensors Expo award nominations are made by the companies who produce new products on display at Sensors Expo. The editors of Sensors judged the 2004 nominations with help from the following members of the magazine's editorial advisory board: Ed Ramsden, author of the book "Hall Effect Sensors A Hall effect sensor is a transducer that varies its output voltage in response to changes in magnetic field. Hall sensors are used for proximity switching, positioning, speed detection, and current sensing applications. "; Wayne Wayne, city (1990 pop. 19,899), Wayne co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit, on the Lower Rouge River; inc. as a village 1869, and with surrounding areas as a city 1960. It has automobile and aircraft industries and other varied manufactures. Manges, Industrial Wireless Program Director for Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, city (1990 pop. 27,310), Anderson and Roane counties, E Tenn., on Black Oak Ridge and the Clinch River; founded by the U.S. government 1942, inc. as an independent city 1959. National Labs and a founder of the Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance
WINA WAP Interim Naming Authority (mobile networks) WINA Whitetail Institute of North America WINA Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (Glen Cove, New York) ); and Carl Smith, Ph.D., Senior Physicist and Program Manager, Advanced Technologies for NVE NVE see no visible estrus. Corp. About Sensors Magazine Sensors, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is the only publication dedicated to meeting the information needs of design and production engineers involved in the design, application, and implementation of sensor A device that measures or detects a real-world condition, such as motion, heat or light and converts the condition into an analog or digital representation. An optical sensor detects the intensity or brightness of light, or the intensity of red, green and blue for color systems. systems. Sensors provides up-to-date and in-depth in-depth adj. Detailed; thorough: an in-depth study. in-depth Adjective detailed or thorough: an in-depth analysis technology information about sensors and related systems in three areas: Sensors Technology & Design, Putting Sensors to Work and Intelligent Systems. The magazine's editorial focus uniquely connects sensors technology and intelligent systems with exciting developments in data acquisition, wireless and wired data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , control, test and measurement, and other arenas. For more information, visit www.sensorsmag.com. About Sensors Expo & Conference Sensors Expo & Conference is the premier event in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. focusing exclusively on sensors and sensing technologies. As the world's most comprehensive marketplace for Sensors products and services, sensors buyers and influencers have come to depend on Sensors Expo & Conference to find solutions to their unique challenges. For more information on future events, please visit: www.sensorsexpo.com. Advanstar Communications Inc. (www.advanstar.com.) is a worldwide business information company serving specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. markets with high-quality information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. and integrated marketing solutions. The company has more than 1300 employees and currently operates from multiple offices in North America, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). , and Asia.
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