Sept/Oct 2014 Newsletter

Traci Barrows

Sensing System Sales

traci_barrows@lord.com

802-876-6526 (office)

New Product: WSDA^®-1500-LXRS^® Wireless Gateway

The WSDA-1500-LXRS is LORD MicroStrain's newest wireless sensor data aggregator. It enables simultaneous, high-speed sensing and data aggregation from scalable sensor networks. It has the same footprint as the WSDA-1000-LXRS, with the addition of several new features to improve functionality.

Highlights include:

* Ability to push data to a J1939 CAN bus

* 4GB of data storage memory (WSDA-1000 had 2GB)

* 13x faster download rate than WSDA-1000

* 1 GHz processor (WSDA-1000's was 600 MHz)

Click here to learn more about the WSDA-1500.

Our latest white paper is a joint project with our friends at AgustaWestland and addresses the issue of developing a helicopter on-rotor HUM system powered by energy harvesting. AW's Daniel Wells and Tiziano Frattini co-authored the paper with LORD MicroStrain's Sensing Technology Manager David Churchill and Engineering Manager Steve DiStasi:

"Helicopter transmission health and usage monitoring is mature and operating on many helicopters worldwide. Attention is now being given to improving the monitoring of rotor systems, in order to 1) further enhance safety by the early detection of incipient failures, and 2) reduce the maintenance burden by minimising or ultimately replacing high-frequency on-aircraft rotor component inspections.

"To realise these aims, rotor monitoring needs to go beyond the traditional track and balance management based on airframe vibration measurement and one approach is more localised sensing on rotor components...

Click here to read the AgustaWestland/LORD MicroStrain white paper.

LORD MicroStrain will be attending NBAA2014 in Orlando, Florida, October 21-23. If you would like to meet up with our Business Development Manager Greg Baker, please contact him in advance by calling 802-876-6552 or emailing him.

In addition, LORD MicroStrain will also be attending a number of other industry tradeshows, including:

October 28-30 - Novi, MI

Automotive Testing Expo (with LORD Stellar Technologies, Inc.)

Booth #8096

November 5-7 - Las Vegas, NV

Remote Monitoring and Control Conference 2014

Booth #3

December 8-12 - Daytona Beach, FL

International Maintenance Conference 

Booth #301

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