Citation
(2011), "Web sites", Sensor Review, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2011.08731aag.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Web sites
Article Type: Web sites From: Sensor Review, Volume 31, Issue 1
Gas Analysis and Sensing Group
This is the homepage of the Gas Analysis and Sensing Group (GASG), a UK self-funded interest group formed in 1993, that brings together manufacturers, users, laboratories and academic departments having technical interests in gas sensors and their applications, including environmental monitoring, and health and safety.
Upon entering the site, the visitor is given an overview of GASG. Additional pages provide more information on its: members including companies and universities; next colloquium; publications; history; and links to two cooperating organisations, Sensors in Water Interest Group, and Sensors and Instrumentation.
Honeywell Analytics
Honeywell Analytics is the world’s leading manufacturer of toxic and flammable gas and fire detection systems and is part of Honeywell’s Life Safety Division. With global locations, Honeywell Analytics’ homepage first asks the user to choose his location and preferred language where the door to the comprehensive web site is then opened.
The site is comprised of five main divisions, each linking to several pages of further detailed subcategories: about us, products, gas detection explained, resources, and technical services and support.
Search keys enable the visitor to browse through the vast archives of: documentation, press, and trade shows and events.
Also under Honeywell’s Life Safety Division, is recently acquired City Technology, Ltd, a UK-based company that manufactures in excess of 1.5 million sensors annually and has a range of over 200 different sensors detecting 20 gases.
Sensor Research and Development Corporation
Sensor Research and Development Corporation (SRD) is a business that utilizes semiconducting metal oxides for solid-state chemical gas sensor research and development for the US Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Energy.
SRD’s web site is well laid-out and easy to navigate. The homepage automatically toggles between images which link to SRD’s three main products: gas delivery mixing system, gas delivery accessories, and gas testing and evaluation.
Other links include news, careers, SRD’s laboratories, and information about SRD.
Owlstone
Owlstone, with offices in the UK and USA, makes a pioneering dime-sized chemical detection system.
Owlstone’s homepage features its nanofabricated field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer; links to products and applications; OEM products; distribution information; and latest news. This state-of-the-art site also presents product videos and slide shows, and narrated Powerpoint presentations.
ITIMS Gas Sensors Group
The Gas Sensors Group is a part of the International Training Institute for Materials Science (ITIMS) at Hanoi University of Technology. The Group’s current research focuses on nanomaterials and nanofabrication of gas sensors.
The homepage contains an introduction to the group and lists its most recent publications. Additional links contain material on its members and offer an e-mail subscription sign up to the group, publications, lectures, research, pictures of its facilities, and news.
NASA Glenn Chemical Species Gas Sensors
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/chemsensors/
This is the web site for the NASA Glenn Chemical Species Gas Sensors Team, which develops gas sensing technology for the aeronautic and space industry. NASA’s MEMS-based sensors can also be used for commercial applications.
The homepage provides a general overview of the chemical gas sensors and the rest of the site is divided into three main areas: sensors – hydrogen, hydrocarbon, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, oxygen, and carbon dioxide sensors; sensor arrays for leak, fire, and emission sensor applications; and the Gas Sensor Team, which lists the members’ contact information.
Environics
Environics, headquartered in Finland, is a worldwide provider of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) protection solutions comprised of sensors, detection instruments, integrated networks, and CBRN reconnaissance vehicles.
Environics’ homepage lists the company’s latest headlines and events, and new products and solutions. The rest of the web site details the company; products which consist of portable CBRN detection and the first portable Fourier transform-infrared gas analyzer in the world, fixed CBRN detection, and biological detection; solutions; technology which includes Environics’ patented Ion Mobility Sensor, Micro Sensors and their specialized metal oxide semiconductor gas sensors, and their detection algorithm.
Though technical datasheets are provided for each product, more multimedia such as videos, images, and information on customer applications on this pioneering technology would be of interest to the site visitor.
e2v Gas Sensors
www.e2v.com/products-and-services/Instrumentation-solutions/gas-sensors/
e2v designs, develops, and manufactures a wide range of gas sensors. Under Instrumentation Solutions on e2v’s company homepage, are the gas sensors pages.
In addition to links on e2v’s gas technology, evaluation kits, and newest products, also provided is a very useful selector that shows the user matching sensors and technologies, and any correlating spec sheets, to the gases the user has selected. This is also available as a downloadable desktop application. Other available downloads include application notes and brochures.
Another unique page on this informative and interesting site displays e2v’s latest advertising campaigns and editorials.