Steve Arms, President of MicroStrain (right) and Mike Robinson, VP Sales and Marketing accept awards
Williston, VT – June 15, 2009 — MicroStrain won two more “Best of Sensors Expo” awards at Sensors Expo in Rosemont, IL. These Gold and Silver awards bring MicroStrain's total to ten Gold awards and two Silver awards, accumulated over the last eight years.
This year's gold award was for HS-Link™ three channel High Speed Wireless Node with sample rates up to 100 kHz on all three channels. During user definable sampling sessions, HS-LINK™ stores bursts of data in a buffer; once sampling is complete data are then transferred to non-volatile flash memory.
Each sensor channel has a dedicated 16 bit analog to digital converter (A/D) enabling the three distinct sensor inputs to be sampled simultaneously. HS-LINK™ also features a precision timekeeper, which can receive a high priority timing beacon, which enables multiple HS-Links™ in a star network to achieve a node-to-node data sampling synchronization of ±4 microseconds.
The silver award was for 3DM-GX3™-25, Miniature Attitude Heading Reference System. 3DM-GX3™-25 is amongst the smallest and lightest AHRS on the 
market today, with versions weighing as little as 11.5 grams. Improved performance in the face of ambient vibrations and oscillations is achieved by oversampling at 30 KHz and then digitally filtering and performing coning and sculling integrals at 1 kHz. Oversampling also greatly improves the resolution of the sensor readings.
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User adjustable output rates of up to 1000 Hz make the 3DM-GX3™-25 AHRS one of the fastest attitude heading reference systems available today. Each 3DM-GX3™-25 is individually calibrated to compensate for gyro g-sensitivity and sensor misalignment and includes routines for hard and soft iron field calibrations. Full temperature compensation ensures performance over a wide operating temperature range.
“Our customers asked, and we delivered,” said Steve Arms, President of MicroStrain. “Both the HS-LINK™ High Speed Wireless Node and the 3DM-GX3™-25 AHRS represent breakthroughs. HS-LINK™ High Speed Wireless Node is an exceptionally fast wireless data acquisition node which will find immediate applications in helicopter and wind turbine gearbox monitoring. 3DM-GX3™-25 AHRS provides high performance in an extremely small package, enabling the next generation of micro-unmanned vehicles and wearable tracking devices. We're grateful for the development support we have received from the US Navy. It's truly exciting to be selected for two awards by the judges at this year's Sensors Expo.”
The Sensors “Best of Sensors Expo” awards honored the most exciting new products
that were on display at the Sensors Expo & Conference, which took place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. All entries were judged on the basis of potential impact, application, distinctiveness, timeliness, and availability.
This panel of judges was comprised of the magazine's editorial staff, members of the editorial advisory board, and industry experts including Melanie Martella, executive editor of Sensors; Deborah Lickness of John Deere; and Ed Ramsden, a member of Sensors' editorial advisory board and principal of Sensorlytics LLC.
"All of the nominations demonstrated exceptional innovation, integration, and ease of use, and all of them addressed real needs. We believe this year's winners will be leaders in the sensors marketplace and offer our congratulations to the companies recognized," said Martella.
For further information, detailed specifications and pricing please contact MicroStrain at www.microstrain.com.