Exhibitors Honored for Innovative Products at Sensors Magazine's ''Best of Sensors Expo'' Awards; Recipients Honored During Sensors Expo & Conference.CHICAGO -- Questex Media Group, Inc. has announced the recipients of its Sensors magazine "Best of Sensors Expo" Awards, honoring new products with the best potential to change the future of sensor-enabled design. The presentations were made during a Reader Reception held Tuesday evening, June 7, at Sensors Expo & Conference at McCormick Place in Chicago. The editors of Sensors, which has led the industry for more than twenty-one years, presented gold, silver, and bronze awards to 11 Sensors Expo exhibitors in four categories: Sensors, Sensor Components, Networking and Communications, and Data Acquisition. Exhibitors submitted new product nominations and the entries were judged on the basis of whether the product has potential to change the way people work, whether it serves a real need and whether it is highly distinct from other product offerings. "The Best of Sensors Expo Awards recognize products we feel will have the greatest and broadest impact," said Barbara Goode, Editor-in-Chief of Sensors magazine. "With the quality and strength of submissions, selecting the winners was a very difficult task. The expo is a magnificent display of innovation and ingenuity- even products that did not win will likely have substantial impact in their specific areas." The following is a list of award recipients, along with a description of their winning product: Gold Awards Category: Sensor Components Analog Devices: AD7745 capacitance to digital converter, a high-resolution sigma-delta converter that accepts direct capacitance inputs. It features an astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. resolution of 20 attoFarads. Category: Sensors EnOcean: STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. 100, a battery-free wireless sensor module that uses a small solar cell and integrated energy store to allow for several days of operation in total darkness. Category: Sensors Microstrain: Inertia-Link, which combines three orthogonal gyroscopes, three orthogonal accelerometers, an embedded processor, data logger and RF receiver. Using complex algorithms, the device can provide an interpolated interpolated /in·ter·po·lat·ed/ (in-ter´po-la?ted) inserted between other elements or parts. yaw yaw, in aviation: see airplane; airfoil. See pitch-yaw-roll. reading from the gyro and accelerometer accelerometer Instrument that measures acceleration. Because it is difficult to measure acceleration directly, the device measures the force exerted by restraints placed on a reference mass to hold its position fixed in an accelerating body. signals. It also supports wireless 802.15.4, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , RS-232/RS-485 and CAN bus communications. Silver Awards Category: Sensors Cross Bow Technologies: MicroNAV, a digital sensor and servo control board for miniature ground and air robotic vehicles. The unit combines accelerometers, angular rate sensors and a magnetometer to create an inertial measurement unit
Category: Communications and Networking Dust Networks: SmartMesh mesh networking platform, which combines software and very low power wireless nodes to form reliable mesh networks capable of operating over a long-term period without human intervention. This operation is particularly beneficial in building automation, industrial monitoring and defense applications. Category: Communications and Networking Ember: EM250 802.15.4/ZigBee compliant system, a chip that integrates a programmable microprocessor, RF Radio, network protocol stack and memory to help engineers build and develop ZigBee-based products and applications. Category: Sensors FISO FISO Fast In Slow Out FISO Flight Information Service Officer (UK) FISO Fault Isolation FISO Force Integration Staff Officer FISO Fiscal Intermediary Services Organization FISO Field Information Systems Organization Technologies: FOP-MA, a fiber-optic acoustic pressure sensor that uses white light interferometry to measure the deflection of a silicon diaphragm. This tiny sensor is designed for acoustic and microphone applications. It is intrinsically safe, immune to EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. , and measures from zero to two psi with 0.0075 psi resolution. Category: Sensors MEMSENSE: MAG(3), a small IMU Noun 1. IMU - a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries measuring 0.7 by 0.7 by 0.4 inches. It combines a triaxial tri·ax·i·al adj. Having three axes. tri·ax  i·al i·ty n. accelerometer, triaxial angular rate sensor and magnetometer, which allows for raw analog signal use in inertial design. Bronze Awards Category: Data Acquisition Lascar: EL-USB-2 Easy Log temperature and humidity logger with direct USB interface, a sensor-enhanced USB flash drive See USB drive. . Users can quickly and conveniently plug the device into the USB port on a PC, configure it and plug it back into the PC to download data. Category: Data Acquisition National Instruments: CompactRIO embedded DA and control platform, which uses a reconfigurable EPGA EPGA Embedded Programmable Gate Array (VariCore) EPGA Emergency Petroleum and Gas Administration EPGA East Point, Georgia , allowing users to implement multiloop analog PID (1) (Process IDentifier) A temporary number assigned by the operating system to a process or service. (2) (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) The most common control methodology in process control. and digital control systems for real-time control. The system runs LabVIEW code, which increases the ease of use. Category: Communications and Networking Sensor Synergy: NEEM-112, which allows users to easily connect conventional sensors to the Internet. By using direct sensor interface technology, users can connect sensors to the Internet in less than 30 minutes and take advantage of electronic data sheets, correction engines and network-enabled data views. About Questex Media Group, Inc. Sensors Magazine and Sensors Expo & Conference are produced by Questex Media Group, Inc. (www.questex.com), a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media provider, headquartered in Newton, MA. Questex serves multiple industries including technology, beauty, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, industrial and specialty services through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media and integrated marketing services. The company's properties include 23 trade publications, 50 websites, 25 conferences and tradeshows. Questex has more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. |
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