Sensors, Transducers and Detectors Reference Materials

Description: Greyline AVFM Area-Velocity Flow Meters are deployed throughout Denmark for municipal stormwater and sewer flow monitoring in open channels and pipes. ...

Description: Wax and solids build-up were plugging off pipes and in-line flowmeters at this oil battery site in Alberta. Petrobakken Energy solved the problem by switching to Greyline DFM 5.0 Doppler Flow Meters ...

Description: A new TTFM 1.0 Transit Time Flowmeter monitors and logs irrigation water pumped to sprinklers at Summerheights Golf Links. The clamp-on flowmeter is used to comply with a Ministry of Environment ...

Description: Culligan Water installs Greyline SLT32 Level Monitors to control tank levels in their bottling plant in Calgary, Alberta. With non-contacting ultrasonic sensors the SLT32's control fill and discharge ...

Description: Chapter 36 from the Wiley & Sons publication: Environmental Instrumentation and Analysis Handbook. This is an informative summary of applications and level instrumentation used in Wastewater Treatment ...

Description: The demands of sophisticated automated processing systems, the need for ever-tighter process control, and an increasingly stringent regulatory environment drive process engineers to seek more precise ...

Description: In light of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's new guidelines for vaccine storage, pharmacies have an increasing need for automated temperature monitoring and alarming. CAS DataLoggers ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature monitoring and alarming solution for a customer who produced whole frozen turkeys for sale in supermarkets. Once frozen, the meat needed to be ...

Description: Current switches (aka current sensors) are used to monitor the operation of motors, pumps, fans, compressors, lights, and other equipment. Two common types of current switches are fixed point and ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the continual monitoring and alarm system for a server storage provider whose customers relied 24/7 on the equipment's reliability. For example, if a single server ...

Description: Ultraviolet (UV) inspection techniques can be applied to a wide range of processes, from medical to automotive to glass manufacturing and product packaging. It often involves verification of the ...

Description: Raw sugar producer supplying sugar to customers with lower ICUMSA colour (higher quality) than specified in order to prevent customer rejection results in increased production costs. Current ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the automated data logging solution for a crude oil refinery which wanted standalone systems for thermocouple measurement in a number of their observation wells. ...

Description: Sherborne Sensors, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of sensors for military, aerospace and industrial applications, has helped RUAG Space, Europe's largest independent ...

Description: Sherborne Sensors, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of sensors for military, aerospace and industrial applications, has helped Canada's Carleton University complete ...

Description: Industry continues to reap the benefits of solid-state magnetic field sensing. Every day new applications are found for solid-state magnetic field sensors due to their small size, low power. And ...

Description: Fuel efficiency, emission control, and improved precision in machine control have become high priorities in engineering design. Advanced computers and sophisticated software algorithms are valuable ...

Description: The measurement of magnetic fields for their own sake is a relatively uncommon goal outside the laboratory. It is more typical (in industrial, consumer, and automotive applications, for example) to ...

Description: At CAS DataLoggers our customers often call in to ask us how often they should set their data loggers to sample for their particular monitoring and alarming projects. While this can vary based on your ...

Description: Recently CAS DataLoggers provided an Accsense temperature alarm and monitoring system to a hospital blood bank looking to replace their old paper chart recorders. To keep their refrigerated blood ...

Description: The most popular germicide used in water treatment is chlorine, which kills bacteria by way of its power as an oxidizing agent. Chlorine is used not only as a primary disinfectant at the beginning of ...

Description: When considering the purchase of pressure transducers for inclusion in a refrigeration chiller, pump, pump skid, engine test equipment or other machinery to be built and shipped to an end user, there ...

Description: F lare gas is the name given to the surplus waste gas produced during the extraction of crude oil and the subsequent refining process. It is typically vented to atmosphere and burned in a flare stack ...

Description: It is essential to any cleaning validation program that analytical methods are selected appropriately for their intended use. Analytical methods should be able to adequately determine that a validated ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied a wireless alarming system to a brewery mass-producing American lager. As its top priority, the brewery wanted to monitor its fermentation process in greater detail ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers is proud to have recently provided the wireless data logging solution to Dave Friend, owner of the Ojai Sulcata Project Inc. in Ojai, California, which rescues and researches the ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers receives many calls from manufacturers who need a datalogging solution for quality assurance purposes. A common project involves scanning bar codes on products coming off of ...

Description: Today's technologically advanced pressure transducers are more accurate, reliable and rugged than ever before. They are ideal for long-term use even in harsh environments of extreme temperature, ...

Description: Every day, CAS DataLoggers offers customers our temperature monitoring and alarming solutions for use in a wide range of industries. With this in mind, let's take a look at Radio Frequency ...

Description: Recently CAS DataLoggers provided its Accsense VersaLog Temperature Monitoring and Alarming System to a shipper exporting its temperature-sensitive fruit and vegetables to remote markets. Therefore, ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the remote alarming system for a processing plant storing various temperature-sensitive industrial materials. Plant supervisors needed to prove to their end users ...

Description: If you're part of a hospital or pharmacy staff responsible for monitoring the temperature in your refrigerators/freezer units, you may be surprised at how much your system's readings can vary ...

Description: In 1987 we delivered a large tiltmetering system to the Ásco 2 nuclear power plant for monitoring of foundation stability. As part of the acceptance process, four surface mount tiltmeters, Models 711 ...

Description: After an "instantaneous" rotation of a 757-Series tilt sensor, the output settles to approximately 99.9% of its new value within eight time constants. Since the sensor's time constant is 0.13-second, ...

Description: Output and Temperature versus time. ...

Description: Environmental temperature changes alter the mechanical and electrical characteristics of all instrumentation. Metals expand and contract, and electrical properties such as resistance and capacitance ...

Description: You can use Applied Geomechanics Tiltmeters and Miniature Tilt Sensors to level platforms and equipment within a few microradians of true level. Here's how: ...

Description: In most applications, accuracy is one of the more critical specifications that a product needs to meet. However, accuracy is also one of the more, if not the most, confusing parameter for any product ...

Description: Pressure non-linearity is one of the parameters that impacts sensor accuracy. (For other factors, refer to All Sensors Pressure Point 2: Understanding Accuracy and Precision for MEMS Pressure ...

Description: Several pressure sensor manufactures promote product incorporating “dual die compensation.” This compensation technique is employed for very low pressure sensors where common mode errors ...

Description: The extensive mining and port facilities situated in remote tropical northwest Australia means that it is essential that the most accurate weather data indicating cyclone formations is available to ...

Description: The leading supplier to Puerto Rican & Carribean power and process instrumentation industries came to us looking for a continuous 2.5 mile thermocouple extension cable to test the conditions of water ...

Description: A tilt sensor at rest experiences a constant gravitational acceleration G. When the sensor is tilted (rotated) by an angle ? from its starting position, it senses this tilt as the acceleration ...

Description: Two important structures in Boston's Financial District in Dewey Square, with different structural foundation supports had similar concerns as a result of the Big Dig's 10-year cut-and-cover ...

Description: Computation of Cross-Axis Tilts ...

Description: Libby Dam is a straight axis concrete gravity dam on the Kootenai River approximately 17 miles upstream of Libby, Montana. The dam, constructed in 1961, is part of the Columbia Basin network of dams ...

Description: It is sometimes necessary to measure tilt (rotation) in the presence of a strong magnetic field. Strong fields have no effect on the output of our electrolytic tilt sensors when the gradient between ...

Description: The FAA operates a state-of-the- art, full-scale pavement test facility dedicated solely to airport pavement research. Located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center near Atlantic City, New Jersey, ...

Description: Jewell Instruments has recently began monitoring a critical gas pipeline in a notoriously active landslide zone. Using fiber-optics in conjunction with traditional vibrating wire equipment, the ...

Description: The Alameda Corridor will streamline the freight rail connection from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to an interstate rail hub near downtown Los Angeles. The 10-mile long midsection of the ...

Description: Green Valley Road was built in Watsonville, California in the 1960s on a fill embankment placed over sands and clays of the Pleistocene Aromas Formation. The original ground surface sloped to the ...

Description: These guidelines are an overview of typical borehole tiltmeter installation methods. They will help you achieve stable and reliable readings from the Lily Borehole Tiltmeters installed in shallow ...

Description: The impulse was generated by rotating the clinometer through an angle of 3.4 degrees by pulling a gage block out from under one end of a Model 791 Tiltmeter Calibration Plate. The test was reproduced ...

Description: The following graphs show the response of the viscously damped 59579-02 Wide-Angle Sensor to a sudden impulse. The impulse was generated by rotating the tiltmeter through angles of 19.8 and 4.4 ...

Description: Tiltmeter bias (B) as defined here is the difference between the true angle and the angle reported by the tiltmeter. Think of a perfectly horizontal surface with a Jewell tiltmeter sitting on it. If ...

Description: We reviewed our repair records for all 700-Series Platform and Surface Mount Tiltmeters sold during an 11-year period between February 9,1995 and February 8, 2006 to obtain an estimate of the mean ...

Description: The Carnegie Institution of Washington has installed two Jewell Instruments Model 510 Geodetic Borehole Tiltmeters in the sea floor east of Japan. The scientists are attempting to establish long-term ...

Description: Over the past few years, the Colorado Department of Transportation has developed a unique relationship with Jewell Instruments. Jewell is CDOT's go-to for monitoring system design, install, data ...

Description: Accurately positioning large and small telescopes has always been a difficult problem. Jewell Instruments precision tiltmeters provide a simple and effective solution. Tiltmeters are unlike ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the freezer alarming solution for a slaughterhouse with meat lockers storing product requiring continual temperature monitoring. The company also needed proof of ...

Description: Portable Power for Permanent Speed Sensors allows accurate speed measurements and TTL trigger pulses for vibration monitoring, dynamic balancing and synchronous time averaging, Monarch provides a ...

Description: SMR-50B-N is designed for reading Address Mark Magnet SMG-100N (N-pole is up. /Yellow laminate), that will be installed at stopping position or at a branch of magnetic navigation type AGV. By ...

Description: GS-315 is an Analog Voltage output type magnetic tape navigation sensor for AGV. The analog voltage (Deviation out) changes proportionate to a relative position between GS-315 and a guide tape. GS-315 ...

Description: GS-3384A is a 15 bits multiple switching output type guide sensor for a magnetic tape navigation AGV. Built-in 15 bits magnetic switches formed a line in every 10mm pitch detect magnetic flux from a ...

Description: GS-115 is a 15 bits multiple switching output type guide sensor for magnetic tape navigation AGV. Built-in 15 bits magnetic switches formed a line in every 10mm pitch detect magnetic flux from a ...

Description: GS-116 is a 16 bits multiple switching output type guide sensor for magnetic tape navigation AGV. Built-in 16 bits magnetic switches formed a line in every 10mm pitch detect magnetic flux from a ...

Description: GS-108 is 8 bits multiple switching output type guide sensor for magnetic tape navigation AGV. Built-in 8 bits magnetic switches formed a line in every 10mm pitch detect magnetic flux from a magnetic ...

Description: GS-1919 is an analog voltage output (DEVIATION OUT) type magnetic navigation sensor for AGV. MACOME original magnetic sensor elements "saturable coil" are applied in GS-1919. An analog voltage changes ...

Description: LP-1903 outputs an analog voltage which is proportionate to a displacement from a center of a magnetic tape; SMG-100N (ANALOG OUT) and Gate signal (GATE OUT) which signified that the LP-1903 is on the ...

Description: SMR-100C is designed for reading Address Mark Magnet that will be installed at stopping position or at a branch of magnetic navigation type AGV. By accumulating each Address Mark Magnet, AGV ...

Description: SMR-106 reads 6 bits codes of Address Mark Plate SMG-106 from a distance between 15mm and 35mm. SMR-106 outputs the code magnetized on SMG-106, when SMR-106 comes just over SMG-106 and the data is ...

Description: SMR-2352H2-S reads 8 bits codes of Address Mark Plate SMG-2352S from a distance between 15mm and 35mm. SMR-2352H2-S outputs the code magnetized on SMG-2352S, when SMR-2352H2-S comes just over SMG-2352 ...

Description: Weather stations are a valuable tool for many different businesses and organizations in the community. Now the Applications Specialists at CAS DataLoggers show you how to put together your own weather ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the environmental datalogging solution for a factory with office rooms experiencing serious air quality issues. Employees began reporting headaches, indicating a ...

Description: Using your Accsense remote monitoring system, it's easy to access your critical temperature data (along with humidity and other values) remotely from our secure cloud servers. The Applications ...

Description: Torque is a measure of the forces that cause an object to rotate. Reaction torque is the force acting on the object that's not free to rotate. An example is a screwdriver applying torque to a rusted ...

Description: A Spider system with multiple modules uses PTP to synchronize the internal clocks of each module over the Ethernet network so that all input channels can be accurately phase-matched. Each module is ...

Description: The purpose of storage is to create the external conditions which are necessary to control the ripening cycle of the cheese as far as possible. For every type of cheese, a specific combination of ...

Description: Wind farms can extend over kilometres of land or offshore areas where the climate and the wind speed can vary substantially, especially in hilly areas. Positioning towers only slightly to the left or ...

Description: Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies are under a great deal of pressure to comply with regulatory requirements from the inception of a product to its final destination. These regulations are in ...

Description: A large manufacturing technology company contacted CAS DataLoggers after being asked to develop a method for testing the cure and strength of structural concrete in the field. Reproducing real-life ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the heat treatment monitoring solution for a manufacturer who needed to monitor their through process. The customer's large production runs were cured in batches for ...

Description: Gas chromatographs (GCs), mass spectrometers, optical spectrometers and photometers are a few examples of analyzer technologies applied in process and plant systems that need sample flow assurance. It ...

Description: Accsense wireless real-time monitoring systems are commonly used in hospitals, pharmacies and businesses for applications such as fridge and freezer monitoring. Infrequently, facilities have an issue ...

Description: Numerous studies have been conducted to compare the performance of various TOC methodologies on a wide range of raw source water and finished drinking water samples. The methodologies studied are ...

Description: This white paper will provide a foundation for understanding the different types of pressure switches available and why one should be selected over another. The information can be used to specify ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied a temperature and humidity logger to a homeowner in the Northeast who needed continual monitoring for his summer vacation home. This way the caretaker (a relative) ...

Description: Most flammable vapor analyzers respond differently to different vapors. Whenever the process solvent is changed, the analyzer must be either recalibrated or reprogrammed to ensure that it's ...

Description: We will focus only on those flammable hazards involving flammable gases and vapors. The difference between a gas and a vapor is that vapors arise from liquids, whereas gases are normally in a gaseous ...

Description: Indoor and outdoor gas hazards that exist in open areas are usually monitored using diffusion-type sensors. A diffusion sensor has no active sample-drawing system; diffusion sensors rely on the ...

Description: Gas & Vapor Atmospheric Groups Flammable gases and vapors are separated into four different atmospheric groups: Group A - Atmospheres containing acetylene. Group B - Atmospheres containing hydrogen, ...

Description: A basic principle of safety can be illustrated by the accident triangle. This principle states that for each accidental death that occurs, there are X instances of human injury, Y instances of ...

Description: In addition to the sensor technologies already discussed, CIC offers a series of electrochemical sensors (Echem). Echem sensors are able to read a specific gas even when it is mixed in a background of ...

Description: The following instruments are capable of detecting flammable gases and vapors. Of these four, only cata lytic and flame temperature sensors are recommended for [FL monitoring. ...

Description: Most flammable vapor analyzers share a common trait-they respond differently to different vapors. For example, you would expect an analyzer calibrated for Toluene to accurately measure any Toluene ...

Description: Gas/vapor hazards usually are present in air. The amount of gas/vapor present reduces the amount of air present. There are three basic mixtures of a flammable gas/vapor in air. ...

Description: Hazardous gases found in semiconductor facilities must be continuously monitored to ensure the health & safety of employees, to protect property, as well as to maintain regulatory compliance. Reliable ...

Description: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amended the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 1996 to balance the risks presented by microbial pathogens and by-products from the disinfectant used to ...

Description: Most flammable vapor analyzers share a common trait-they respond differently to different vapors. For example, you would expect an analyzer calibrated for Toluene to accurately measure any Toluene ...

Description: Sensors that detect leaks spend most of their lives exposed to little or no flammable gas. Only rarely are they needed to detect the leak, and in these moments they are useful if they can indicate the ...