Sensor Provides Maximum Deployment Flexibility With One-Second “Clear Time"

AUSTIN TX, USA – RF Code, Inc. has introduced a real-time liquid detection sensor that totally eliminates the need to wire or cable a data center for liquid leak detection capabilities.

Combining unique thin-film technology with RF Code’s real-time, wire-free environmental monitoring technology, the new sensor provides the freedom and ease to deploy liquid detection wherever vulnerabilities to conductive liquids threaten expensive IT assets.

Deployment scenarios include:

* Wrapping the film-based sensor around floor or ceiling pipes
* Laying it down on vulnerable floor areas including areas under or above a raised floor
* Placing it on water delivery systems and chillers, including those found under raised floors in older data centers
* Attaching it to air conditioning units and walls


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FOR CAMERA PHONES AND DIGITAL STILL CAMERAS

SUNNYVALE CA, USA – InvenSense, Inc. has announced the new IDG-2000™ dual-axis MEMS gyroscope, its next-generation IDG™ family of MEMS gyros.

The IDG-2000 family provides the market with a smaller and thinner gyroscope ideal for improving optical image stabilization (OIS) in digital still cameras and high-resolution, eight megapixel and above camera phones.

The IDG-2000 is fabricated on the larger 8-inch wafer to meet increased volume capacity and to further reduce the overall solution cost to meet competitive price requirements demanded by consumer electronics OEMs.


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OMT364 for Hazardous Areas: Nonincendive, Factory Mutual (FM) approved for USA and Canada

Helsinki, Finland -- The Vaisala SPECTRACAP® Oxygen Transmitter OMT364 is designed for oxygen monitoring in moist and aggressive process gases.

Laser based measurement, the OMT364 incorporates a compact tunable diode laser (TDL) gas spectrometer built in the measurement probe.

This optical measurement technology is well known for unmatched stability and robustness. The patented SPECTRACAP® sensor offers unique TDL technology in a compact probe suitable for field use.


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Longwatch's NEW product records exactly what was on HMI screens when an event occurred, archives it, and plays the video back for training or analysis purposes

Norwood MA, USA -— Longwatch announces the Operator’s Console Recorder, a software module that automatically records images being shown on multiple HMI or SCADA operator’s displays.

The module takes its signals directly from each HMI screen’s video software driver, so it records the actual video being sent to the HMI. The software can accommodate video signals from an unlimited number of HMIs to show what operators were watching at the time of an event, alarm or process upset.

Video images can be combined with the automatic data mapping capability of Longwatch’s Video Historian, so the Console Recorder can automatically retrieve and replay operator displays simply by clicking on a time-based alarm or system message.

Playing back what the operator was seeing at the time of an event can be a valuable tool for training and analysis purposes, and can help mitigate insurance and regulatory issues by eliminating guesswork and conjecture.

Videos used for monitoring plant activities can also be combined with the operator console videos and data from a process historian. This enables engineers, analysts or investigators to see what was happening in the plant, what the operator was seeing on the HMI screen at the time, and all relevant real-time data that occurred at the time of an event.


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GL signed Contract with Sinovel

Shanghai, China - Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has signed a contract on wind turbine measurements with Chinese SINOVEL Wind Co., Ltd. Services include load, power performance and power quality as well as acoustic noise measurements.

The agreement comprises measurements for three Sinovel turbines: SL1500/82, SL3000/100 and SL3000/90 (on- and offshore). Last-named is, for example, erected in the Shanghai East Sea Bridge's 100MW Offshore Wind Farm - China's first national offshore wind power demonstrating project.


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DAILY RFID has launched a series of hygienic RFID tags for livestock tracking on large animals, like cattle, pigs and sheep

Guangzhou / Guangzhou, China -- The ear tags are constructed of polyurethane which is not easy for bacteria to grow on to decrease the chance of infection in tagged animals.

Thus, DAILY's advanced RFID Animal tags can deliver high performance in both tag retention and infection prevention for animal tracking.

These user-friendly RFID animal ear tags perform well in a wide range of livestock lifecycle tracking, just like cattle, pigs and sheep.

The passive components(with no battery) are worn as ear tags to enable automated livestock management in processes, such as feeding, immunity, disease management and breeding practices.


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PESC-F100 in a Nutshell

Discovery Bay, CA -- The PESC-F100 is an alternative to costly digital control system (DDC) retrofits of pneumatic systems which can cost $2000 or more per thermostatic zone.

Existing pneumatic control systems control great, but they are like the straw man in the Wizard of Oz....they have no brains!

The PESC-F100 provides the existing pneumatic system with a simple on-off-auto switching valve and the brains to provide all the energy-saving attributes of the proven DDC control systems that are popular today.

We leave the existing thermostats and control system intact and simply turn it off like a light switch.


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After Completing 150th TET TrialM

PHILADELPHIA PA, USA -- - ERT has celebrated a significant milestone by completing its 150th Thorough QT clinical trial (TET).

ERT provides full TET support to the biopharmaceutical industry, including consultation, study design and provision of ECG equipment to ECG analysis, data processing, management, reconciliation, reporting, quality control and regulatory support.

Cardiac safety concerns continue to be the primary reason for drugs being refused licenses or to carry restricted labeling and in the worst cases withdrawn from market completely.

As a result, all new drugs are expected to undergo electrocardiographic testing (ECG) in the clinical development process and with the advent of the ICH E14 Guidance, a TET study is required for most drugs where more robust and rigorous ECG testing is performed.


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NEW Packages Provide Fast, Accurate and Reliable Testing in Metallurgy, Petrochemical, Cement & Central Labs

ECUBLENS, Switzerland - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has introduced four new analytical packages designed to enhance industry specific routine X-ray analysis.

The packages are based on the successful Thermo Scientific ARL OPTIM'X WDXRF spectrometer, enabling the company to offer a range of unique sequential and simultaneous spectrometers with pre-configured analytical packages.

These packages are specifically tailored to meet the analytical testing requirements of metallurgy, petrochemical, cement and central laboratories.

Continuing its tradition of innovation and leadership in WDXRF, Thermo Fisher has developed four pre-calibrated, turnkey solutions for the analysis of sulfur in fuels and oils, slags, clinker and cement as well as varied materials in central laboratories.


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COX Instruments Announces Asia/Pacific Flowmeter Calibration Center

New Tokyo facility provides primary standard calibrations for all types of meters

{OPENING DAY CONGRATULATIONS:
(R) Takeyoshi Hamabe, President & CEO – NTK International, Tokyo, Japan; (L) Mark Oehrlein, CFO – COX Instruments, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA}Tokyo, Japan -- COX Instruments, a supplier of precision flow measurement instrumentation for the world’s most demanding applications, has announced the opening of an Asia/Pacific primary standard flowmeter calibration center.

Operated under an agreement with NTK International Corporation, the new NTK/COX calibration facility is located at 417-1 Shimoongata, Hachioji-City, Tokyo, Japan. Phone: 0426-50-5400 / Fax: 0426-50-5880

The NTK-COX calibration lab provides primary standard NIST-traceable liquid calibrations for all type of flow measurement devices, ranging from 0.01 to 300 GPM in fluids from 0.5 to 100 centistokes.


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