November 4, 2016
LONDON - Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced commercial availability of the SL869-3DR, a GNSS module for global use which leverages information from internal gyros, accelerometers and a barometric pressure sensor to perform dead reckoning (DR) navigation for application areas like track & trace and in-vehicle systems. The module
September 27, 2016
NEW ORLEANS - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today its Telog® 41 Series of wireless, battery-powered sensors for water monitoring applications. These new Internet of Things (IoT) sensors use innovative, low-power, Long-Range (LoRa® technology) wireless communications to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and groundwater systems including water pressures, flows, levels and rainfall volumes. As part
July 11, 2016
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 11, 2016 — UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), announced the award of a study contract to complete the integration of its MS-177 sensor system into the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). Awarded by Lockheed Martin, the contract will support the USAF and
July 8, 2016
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A pair of University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers aim to explore fundamental properties of infrasonic optical sensors that could make them more sensitive and accurate over long distances. The results of their research, which combines experiments and theoretical modeling, could impact future operation of these sensors in areas ranging from
April 6, 2016
Andover, Mass.—MEMSIC Inc., a leading sensing solutions provider, today announced the availability of a new whitepaper that spotlights and explains the various types of sensors and sensing technologies found in a typical drone product. The new whitepaper can be downloaded here - http://www.memsic.com/about-memsic/publications.cfm “Most people have no idea how many sensors are in a typical drone,”
March 11, 2016
NASA has selected two proposals for new Earth science investigations that will put new instruments in low-Earth orbit to track harmful particulate air pollutants and study the development of tropical cyclones. Observations of small atmospheric aerosols from the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) will be combined with health information to determine the toxicity of different
March 8, 2016
The three instruments on the Sentinel-3A satellite are now offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s in store for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. The latest images, which feature Europe and Antarctica, come from the sensor that records Earth’s radiant energy. Launched just three weeks ago, Sentinel-3A carries a suite of cutting-edge instruments to provide systematic
March 4, 2016
DALLAS — VectorNav Technologies introduced today the VN-360 GPS-Compass heading and position sensor. The VN-360 is an OEM GPS-Compass module that provides an accurate, True North heading solution for systems integrators seeking a reliable alternative to magnetic-based sensors. Many systems currently available on the market depend on digital magnetometers for providing heading measurements of a manned
February 2, 2016
NORCROSS, GA, February 2, 2016 — Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Aerial Services, Inc. (ASI), a privately owned small business based in Cedar Falls, IA, has purchased a Leica ALS70-HP LiDAR sensor co-mounted with a four-band, 80 megapixel RCD30 imaging camera. ASI provides aerial acquisition, processing, orthophoto production, mapping and LiDAR services to government,
January 20, 2016
Kreuztal, January 20, 2016 — IGI launches the new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice software in version 5.4.50. This new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice version can do coverage maps for scanning sensors. But there is more. For example, the sensor footprint can be adjusted via the setup page. It is possible to select and define if the sensor has
