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MicroStrain is a leading designer and manufacturer of addressable, data logging wireless sensor nodes capable of fast (2K sample/sec/channel) data rates.

Previous award winning wireless systems from MicroStrain tightly controlled the flow of data from sensor nodes to base station. This structure was required to prevent nodes from interfering with one another, due to a limited number of available radio frequency (RF) bands. To control data flow, the base station would request that a specific addressable node on the network send or stream wireless data, then, on receiving this command, the addressable node would respond.

MicroStrain's engineers recognized a need in the sensing industry for multiple, independent wireless sensing nodes capable of communicating over the airwaves simultaneously. Test & measurement engineers as well as control system engineers require strain, acceleration, torque, force, pressure, and temperature measurements to be made at high data rates and in real time. The sensing nodes need to be distributed over their structure or machine under test.

The wireless data obtained in real time is used to protect valuable process equipment from overloads, or to help research engineers to better visualize and interact with the system under test.

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