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Airak - Medium Voltage Sensors and complete Distribution System monitoring.
AirSprite - is introducing a family of infrastructure products based on two key emerging wireless standards for industrial process automation, WirelessHART and ISA100. These products enable dramatic improvements in operational efficiency, plant utilization, and employee productivity. The company’s products include a Wireless Adapter that unleashes powerful information trapped in intelligent field devices, such as HART instruments. The information is then transmitted to critical plant and enterprise applications in real time. The Adapter retrofits existing field devices and works with standards-compliant wireless infrastructure, including AirSprite Gateways and Routers.
Locations: Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Website: http://www.airsprite.com
Arch Rock - Energy - Building Automation Page. Locations: San Francisco, California.
Cannon Technologies - See Energy Demand Response Page for main entry. Cannon Technologies Distribution monitoring page.
Continental Control Systems - a privately owned Colorado limited liability company, began operations in 1995 as a product development and manufacturing company. CCS specializes in electric power monitoring and control devices for use by the energy services industry. Continental Control Systems developed the WattNode® line of watt/watt-hour transducers, which has been in production since 1995. Continental Control Systems uses Echelon's LonWorks® technology and is a member of the LonMark Interoperability Association. Continental Control Systems is staffed by a team of highly qualified design engineers, software and firmware engineers, applications engineers, production technicians and support specialists all with a common objective: To supply our customers with reliable and accurate electronic products at a reasonable cost, with the highest level of professional service and attention to customer needs.
Locations: Boulder, Colorado.
Website: http://www.ccontrolsys.com
Davidson Instruments - manufactures a line of rugged and intrinsically-safe fiber optic systems to measure temperature and pressure in harsh industrial environments at very high speed, at very long transmission range, and with very high resolution. Davidson’s pressure transducers can operate continuously at temperatures up to 1000°F and in corrosive and hydrogen-rich environments. Website. Investors: Rockport Capital Partners.
DeepStream Technologies - works closely with manufacturers embedding intelligent sensors into applications which mine valuable information from electrical networks, enabling system monitoring and predictive failure capabilities within critical power applications.
Website: Website.
Dynamic Ratings - DRMCC system provides Dynamic Rating, Monitoring Control and Communications for power transformers.
Website: http://www.dynamicratings.com/
EnOcean - stands for battery-less radio sensors which are maintenance free and flexible allowing cost reduction in buildings and industrial facilities.
Board Of Directors: http://www.enocean.com/en/supervisory-board/
Locations: Germany; Boston, Massachusetts; Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
People: http://www.enocean.com/en/management/
Website: http://www.enocean.com
EPRI
- Electric Power Research Institute - Energy
- Research Page. Locations:
Exacter - Energy - Distribution Page. Locations: Columbus, Ohio. Also, a monitoring company.
GainSpan - brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices. In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology. The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions. The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas. GainSpan's mission is to continue to innovate around these basic tenets to create a broad range of semiconductor solutions that can improve usage capabilities worldwide and enable deployment of products that leverage the pervasiveness of Wi-Fi.
Locations: Los Gatos, California.
Website: http://www.gainspan.com
GE Energy - Energy - Industry - Suppliers. Also sells on-line dissolved gas analysis for power transformers
GreenPeak - a fabless semiconductor, module and software company offering green ultra low power wireless communication technology for sense and control applications. GreenPeak’s mesh networks are enabled by the use of energy harvesting devices while not compromising in performance like range, data rate or reliability. GreenPeak driven networks powered by energy harvesting bring true maintenance-free operation. GreenPeak Technologies brings wireless and green (battery-free) solutions for control networks with high reliability and standard compliance.
Locations: Austin, Texas.
Website: http://www.greenpeak.com/
GridSense - manufactures and distributes advanced monitoring systems to electric utilities to cost effectively, improve power quality & reliability ('PQR'). High PQR is now very important for electric utilities, due to competition from privatization and deregulation. Furthermore, digital electronics, now used throughout industry, commerce and domestically, means PQR must be high, as digital systems frequently malfunction, when voltage disturbances occur, such as sags, swells, harmonics, transients, flicker, or when large motors start, etc.
Board Of Directors: http://www.gridsense.net/investor.php
Locations: West Sacramento, California;
People: http://www.gridsense.net/investor.php
Website: http://www.gridsense.net
Grid Sentinel - develops advanced fault location and disturbance analysis software system. Fault data from various IEDs, including digital relays and digital fault recorders, is analyzed and the results are delivered to system operators in real-time. Grid Sentinel's enterprise-level software products provide system operators and engineers the most accurate tool for understanding power system faults and making informed decisions. *
Website: http://www.gridsentinel.com
Kelman - Energy - Distribution Page. Also sells monitoring equipment.
LumaSense Technologies - is a global leader in providing quality sensor instrumentation to the clean technology, medical and energy markets. LumaSense is an operating company with a strategy to acquire other leading sensor instrumentation companies serving similar customers with complementary technologies and products. LumaSense’s first two acquisitions are industry pioneers with hundreds of global customers: Luxtron Corporation - fiber optic temperature measurement sensors and Innova AirTech Instruments - trace gas monitoring and analysis. Website. Investors: Element Ventures. Management. *
Morgan Schaffer - manufactures the world's most precise and accurate transformer monitoring instruments. Protect your investments the intelligent way, with high performance products manufactured under the strictest quality management systems.
Website: http://www.morganschaffer.com/
Mythos Solar - provides reliable, environmentally friendly power solutions to business, governments and homes. Our flexible, scalable products work in a wide range of applications — from outdoor, stand-alone units to high-capacity backup power, supplemental electricity and intelligent energy management. At Mythos, we envision a future based on clean, sustainable, renewable energy. By “making solar simple™”, we’re helping to make that future a reality today. Remote monitoring with solar charged battery backup.
Locations: Belmont, California.
Website: http://www.mythossolar.com/
NxtPhase - develops and markets digital disturbance recorders, data collection and disturbance analysis software, fiber optic current and voltage sensors used in the control and measurement of electricity by utilities, and digital relays for high-voltage transmission line and transformer protection. Investors: Perseus, Emerald Technology Ventures (see Energy Investors). HQ: Vancouver, Phoenix. Website. *
Optisense - mission is to create a leading sensor systems company. Company technology provides a new approach to primary power measurement that does not require the sensors to contact the energized conductors. The sensors are the enabling technology that will be added to existing software and communications technologies to provide a total smart grid solution.
Locations: Bridgeport, Texas
Website: http://www.optisense.net/default.htm
PowerSense - PowerSense has developed a technology for monitoring and detection of faults in the medium voltage electrical grid by means of optical sensors installed in the transformer stations. The technology makes it possible for utilities to optimize the operation and reliability of the existing grid and to eliminate or postpone investments in capacity. Website. Investors: Bankinvest. Locations: Denmark.
Senscient - develops, manufactures and markets advanced gas detection products for industrial safety, environmental monitoring and process control / analysis applications. The technology developed by Senscient to meet the demands of these applications is “Enhanced Laser Diode Spectroscopy”, a truly revolutionary gas detection and measurement technology. The advantages of ELDS™ technology compared to the currently available gas detection technologies include open path detection of both toxic and flammable gases by a single unit, remote electronic functional testing of detectors (Simu-Gas™), no un-revealed failure modes, high sensitivity, and significantly reduced installation and maintenance costs.
Website: http://www.senscient.com
SensorTran - develops advanced fiber-optic based sensors for complex asset monitoring applications. Since 1998, SensorTran's Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) instruments have been helping companies around the world in Oil & Gas, Electric Power, Pipeline, and other industries improve the performance and management of their critical assets. SensorTran's DTS instruments are easy to use, and provide the most cost-effective performance on the market. Service offerings from SensorTran include training, on-site installation, and system integration consulting. With a track record of responsive support, SensorTran is committed to helping customers be successful with their DTS installations. Under contract to NASA in 1996, SensorTran was formed as a division of Systems and Processes Engineering Corp. (SPEC) to develop a compact and lightweight DTS system for monitoring cryogenic tanks on the next-generation X-33 space shuttle from Lockheed Martin. SensorTran successfully passed flight qualification of the new DTS system in 1998. Following this successful program, SensorTran began a new effort to commercialize its DTS technology, and began selling the new system, called the Model 5000, in 1999. By 2000, SensorTran had established itself as a significant player in the DTS market, selling systems primarily to Oil and Gas and Electric Power customers. SensorTran is now selling its second-generation DTS system, the Model 5100, for a variety of applications around the world. This new model brings significant improvements in performance and ruggedness, and remains the most cost-effective solution available for its target applications. Investors: Expansion Capital Partners. Website. @
Serveron - offers accurate and repeatable measurements of critical fault gases and other key parameters. Investors: Perseus, Nth Power.
SmartSignal Corp - For managers intent on increasing their plants’ availability, SmartSignal’s Predictive Analytics solutions deliver early, actionable warning of deteriorating equipment-performance and operational issues to the right people at the right time. Whether you are an individual plant using the Shield Service Suite or a large fleet using EPI*Center™, SmartSignal improves your availability through unprecedented insights into the health of your operations and critical rotating and non-rotating equipment.
Southern States LLC - Energy - Distribution Page. Also sells monitoring equipment.
SpectraSensors - A leading manufacturer of optically-based gas sensors for the industrial process and environmental monitoring markets. Typical applications include non-contact measurement of moisture, carbon dioxide, and other corrosives in natural gas pipelines (Energy Market), toxicity of industrial process emissions (EPA compliance), arsenic and other impurities in drinking water (Water Purity), and airborne water vapor and other atmospheric measurements from commercial aircraft for the U.S. and International Weather Services (Atmospheric). Website. Investors: Nth Power.
Synapsense - developed the world's first wireless sensor network platform featuring SynapSense OneClick Architecture™, providing customers with a complete software solution and extensive monitoring, tracking and alert capabilities This is the first new WSN architecture in half a decade, and addresses virtually all of the major problems with which previous architectures have struggled. The SynapSense solution is comprised of a complete hardware and software solution set that enables a broad sensor network platform and extensive customer applications. Website. Investors: Nth Power, DFJ Frontier.
Telepathx - is a leading developer of intelligent reactive (WSN) wireless sensing network infrastructure technology. Its primary focus is in developing intelligent energy networks while simultaneously providing transport, environmental, consumer and industrial asset monitoring services by means of telecommunications aggregation.
Locations: Victoria, Australia.
Website: http://www.telepathx.com
Tollgrade - Since the introduction of our patented MCU® technology in 1988, Tollgrade Communications has continued to provide innovative solutions for network testing and management. Tollgrade has made strategic business acquisitions in both the telecom and cable broadband industries over the past several years, allowing us to offer complete, cost-effective and integrated solutions for network assurance. We have built an organization of seasoned industry veterans and technology experts, some of whom have helped build the largest networks in the country. Our comprehensive, integrated software, hardware and service-related offerings have been developed with an astute understanding of current and future technologies, service-quality benchmarks and the economic and regulatory challenges that service providers face today, as well as those they’ll face tomorrow. Website. Board Of Directors. Management. Yahoo Finance.
WattNode - See Continental Control Systems - Energy - Monitoring Page. Locations: Boulder, Colorado.
Resources
Homecontrols.com - portal site to purchase home control devices.
Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) - is a term used in the electric power industry to describe microprocessor-based controllers of power system equipment, such as circuit breakers, transformers, and capacitor banks.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_electronic_device
Remote Magazine - remote site and equipment management information and resources.
Sensor Expo and Conference -
http://www.sensorsexpo.com/sensors2007/v42/index.cvn
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