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Sandia’s Sensors to Study Effects of Cloud Cover on Solar Plants

Sandia National Laboratories’ researchers are employing sensors connected by a RF network to forecast the repercussions of cloud cover on the output of gigantic solar power plants.

15 Oct 2010

Award Winning Optical Fiber Vibration Sensor to Monitor Landslides

According to an academic source from the National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology (NKFUST), an award winning optical fiber vibration sensor, has been used effectively in monitoring and signaling alerts of landslides.

15 Oct 2010

Scout Lens from Lensbaby Uses Fisheye Optics for Flare Effects

Lensbaby is supplying its Scout fisheye SLR imager lens with mounts for use in all standard SLR camera components.

15 Oct 2010

Innovative Imagers to Mimic Remote Stethoscopes for Monitoring Pulse

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are advancing an economical imager to mimic a remote stethoscope that can monitor the patient’s pulse without touching the body.

14 Oct 2010

Leica to Release XPro V5.0 Sensors for Ground Data Processing Missions

Leica Geosystems, a pioneer in the fabrication of aerial sensing devices, launches a DSM extraction system for its recognized sensor series called the Leica XPro to furnish improved ground information processing, starting from the download of data to the generation of images.

From Leica Geosystems AG 14 Oct 2010

Sony to Develop Exmor R CMOS Image Sensors for Smartphones

Sony has declared that the company’s IMX081PQ camera sensor is designed in such a way as to overcome most of the conventional obstructions encountered with the mobile phone imagers.

14 Oct 2010

e2v to Advance CCD Image Sensors for ESA Space Mission

e2v, a global supplier of standard imaging devices, has been offered an award by the European Space Agency (ESA) to configure a novel Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera sensor for use in the Euclid space science project.

14 Oct 2010

Trimble Launches a New Digital Sensor System

Trimble unveiled the Trimble DSS WideAngle, a novel digital sensor system, at the INTERGEO 2010, the biggest global conference on land management, geoinformatics and geodesy, to be utilized in the direct geo-referenced aerial imaging system.

14 Oct 2010

Panasonic Unveils the LUMIXPhone at CEATIC 2010

Panasonic has launched the LUMIXPhone, an innovative smartphone, at an exhibition in Japan, the CEATIC 2010, which is comparable to the US based CES or the German IFA event.

14 Oct 2010

austriamicrosystems Presents Hall Sensor IC AS5510 for Mobile Electronic Systems

austriamicrosystems, a pioneer in the designing and fabrication of standard analog ICs, has released a linear Hall sensing IC called the AS5510 with a miniature size and a resolution of ten-bit digital display.

14 Oct 2010