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But the big news at MicroStrain is about what gets smaller and smarter. That and the 40 percent annual growth the company has enjoyed the past five years.
A recent collaboration with Irish startup DecaWave will enable the Williston company's tiny sensors to shrink further, and then radio their evermore precise data to evermore remote monitors, using considerably less power.
In practice, the gizmos could map your tennis swing and upload the results (and recommendations) to your smart-phone, MicroStrain's president, founder and CEO Steve Arms, said last week.
Or track the swing and pitch of an industrial wind turbine's blades for maximum efficiency. Or predict metal fatigue within a helicopter's rotors, or a bulldozer's front-end.
Or follow the progress of a firefighter in a building where GPS locators don't work.
Arms said fresh ideas at MicroStrain are a renewable resource simply because his customers keep presenting him with new, exciting challenges.
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