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Probes and sensors
News Release from: Kistler Instruments | Subject: PiezoSmart pressure sensor identification
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 April 2005
System identifies individual pressure
sensors
PiezoSmart is an active system for automatic identification of individual pressure sensors and is used for automated setting of the parameters of measuring chains (plug and measure).
PiezoSmart is an active system for automatic identification of individual pressure sensors It is used for automated setting of the parameters of measuring chains (plug and measure)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Installed in PiezoSmart sensors is a transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS), with sensor and calibration information as well as user data.
It offers functions that guarantee comprehensive quality assurance of data.
In Spring 2004 the industry standard (IEEE 1451.4) on which PiezoSmart is based was codified in Rev.
3.0 making IEEE 1451.4 conditionally approved by the IEEE that can be used as a fully fledged standard.
This is a milestone in technical standardization and harmonization.
About 40 companies have either been involved in the creation of this standard or intend to implement it in their products.
It offers the user involved in routine measurement with sensors standardization across the range of brands and products.
Kistler was one of the initiators of this standard and has made an important contribution over past years.
PiezoSmart from Kistler therefore represents a worldwide standard and demonstrates the viability of the innovative concept of automatic sensor identification.
* About Kistler Instruments - established in Wintherthur (Switzerland) in 1957, Kistler is represented in over 50 countries and has subsidiaries in Germany, France, Italy, UK, Japan, USA, China, Korea and Singapore.
Heavy investment in research and development, 15% of staff worldwide are engaged in research and development, has generated a number of innovations using piezoelectric, piezoresistive and capacitive techniques to provide solutions to numerous force, pressure and acceleration measuring problems.
These innovations include the world's first commercial quartz sensor, two-wire constant current technology to integrate sensors with microelectronic circuitry, high-temperature pressure sensors for use up to 400 Deg C and three-component force measuring sensors.
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