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Senix Corporation Articles
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The Senix Difference
Senix ToughSonic ultrasonic level and distance sensors are built for durability, accuracy, and flexibility, making them some of the highest value sensors available on the market today.
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The Role of Ultrasonic Sensors in Flood Monitoring Systems
Natural disasters can happen anywhere in the world, and, in recent years, they have occurred with greater frequency. One of the most common types of natural disasters is floods. Due to the devastation, they can reign on a community, region, or, in ...
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The Role of Ultrasonic Sensors in Wireless Monitoring Systems
The development of wireless monitoring systems has greatly expanded the scope of measurement in distance, tank level, and other monitoring applications. They enable users to measure various metrics (e.g., water levels) without having to physically ...
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How Can Senix Non-Contact Ultrasonic Sensors Measure & Control Roll Diameter?
Senix ToughSonic General Purpose ultrasonic distance and levels sensors are designed for use in some of the harshest industrial environments and are suitable for use with a variety of materials, ranging in type, color, translucence, and ...
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Ultrasonic sensors reduce chemical usage
The innovative Sonic Spray attachment from farm equipment manufacturer Gillison’s Variety Fabrication, Inc. (GVF) uses Senix ultrasonic object detection sensors to detect orchard trees and precisely control the application of sprayed ...
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Ultrasonic sensors in agricultural automation
Back in the 1980’s, brothers Mike, Gregg and Don Tvetene were working at their family-owned Tvetene Turf Farms in Billings, Montana. The business was faced with a critical labor shortage at the same time that it was experiencing huge ...
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ToughSonic sensors teach dynamics at Duke
Mechanical engineers at Duke University are finding that Senix ToughSonic® 14 sensors are the ideal tool for conducting hands-on experiments in dynamics. According to Pat McGuire, senior laboratory engineer in Duke’s Mechanical ...
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ToughSonic sensors and tsunami warnings
Senix ToughSonic ultrasonic sensors play a critical role detecting sea level changes as part of a sophisticated Tsunami Early Warning System (TeWS) in the Philippines. Senix engineers collaborated with the Philippines Advanced Science and Technology ...
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Sensors provide Iowa flood warnings
To create the world’s most sophisticated flood monitoring and forecasting system, the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) uses more than 200 Senix ToughSonic 30 and ToughSonic 50 ultrasonic sensors to measure water levels in streams across the ...
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Flying over water with a ToughSonic®14
The solar-powered boat designed and built for competition by a team of students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands depends on Senix ToughSonic 14 ultrasonic sensors to keep the craft at just the right height above the ...
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Senix sensors monitor Philippine flooding
Extraordinary flood risks require extraordinary technology A variety of factors make the Philippines, and especially the Manila region, among the most flood prone in the world. Tropical rains flow rapidly from mountain uplands to the ...
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Water level sensors help Australian irrigation
Irrigation management is serious business in Australia especially within the Murray-Darling Basin, a 1,000,000 square kilometer watershed that is home to Australia’s most productive agricultural land. The basin’s 23 rivers have ...
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Senix measures Vermont syrup production
Ultrasonic liquid level sensors monitor maple sugaring to streamline operations and provide local flavor When Timothy Perkins, Ph.D., became Director of the University of Vermont Proctor Maple Research Center, he understood intuitively ...
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Senix ultrasonic sensors guide Oracle boat
Oracle Team USA won the 2013 America’s Cup race with one of the most efficient sailing vessel ever built. Oracle Team USA’s AC72-class yacht, USA-17, was a 100’ long, 90’ wide and 223’ tall carbon fiber technological ...
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Senix Water Level Sensors Drive Irrigation Automation Project
Australia’s Water Crisis Irrigation management is serious business in Australia especially within the Murray-Darling Basin, a 1,000,000 square kilometer watershed that is home to Australia’s most productive agricultural land. ...
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Toughsonic Sensors Guide Solar Boat
Senix Renews Sponsorship of The TU Delft Solar Boat Team. Senix Corporation is once again a proud sponsor of the Solar Boat team at Technical University Delft in the Netherlands. Senix ultrasonic sensors play a key role in controlling the ...
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Sensors Measure Height at Healthworks!
Sometimes ultrasonic sensors are just for fun! Ultrasonic distance sensors are used to measure stack height, wave height, crop height and more, but at HealthWorks! Children’s education center in Tupelo MS, Senix ultrasonic sensors are ...
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Sensor Cad Drawings Now Online
You can now download Computer-aided design (CAD) models of any Senix ultrasonic sensor from the ToughSonic® product pages on http://www.senix.com/. It’s just one aspect of our ongoing commitment to ...
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Tank Level Sensor Added to Senix Line
At Senix, we make all our sensors as compact and rugged as possible for maximum application flexibility. Take our ToughSonic 50 sensors, for example. We packed a 50 foot maximum range into a 2.1 ...