Beyond Limits:

Sensorics Engineered for Extremes

We design and manufacture custom sensoric devices for harsh environments. Where standard sensorics fail, we start.

Our devices provide you with an unique insight into the processes otherwise inaccessable by other means. Be it for research and development, continous performance monitoring, efficiency optimization or predictive maintanance, our devices help you to make key decisions based on facts.

Precision. Crafted. In-House.

We are proud of our dedicated manufacturing space with a comprehensive suite of specialized manufacturing tools, such as EDM machines, precision laser welders, and state of the art microscopes, enabling us to meticulously craft each sensoric device with the highest accuracy.

Together with our skilled hands and eyes keen for a detail, we can guarantee an exceptional quality control and the flexibility to customize solutions to your unique needs.

We partner with LEC GmbH, one of Europe’s leading research centers for large bore engines, to drive innovation and ensure our sensorics remain at the cutting edge.

Most of our systems are for R&D applications, which are from their nature highly confidential. While we are proud to work on the cutting-edge of the technology, unfortunately this also means we can’t show much from our work. Here you can see some of our older systems that are not so relevant any more and thus can be shown.

Valve temperature

  • Engine valves are notoriously difficult to measure on. They are highly stressed components with very severe limitations regarding space available for instrumentation. Yet we succeeded and made a fully digital, wire-less telemetry system capable of continuous real-time temperature measurement on 12 (not a maximum) positions all around the valve. The system does not restrict the valve motion in any way (full rotation and lift) and can be used without engine operation restrictions for unlimited periods of time.

    Thanks to its clever instrumentation design and some skilled machining from our side, the valve is not significantly weakned by the instrumented sensors as is often the case by other systems.

    • 12 temperature measurement positions

    • 10 Hz real-time, wireless sampling rate

    • unlimited operational time

    • 400+ °C max operating temperature at the valve plate

    • 140 °C max operating temperature of the telemetry unit (at the valve stem tip)

Conrod bearing temperature

  • Measurements on IC engine pistons and conrods are our bread and butter. We routinely build wireless telemetry systems with wide range of capabilites. For R&D applications, usually high performance systems with many instrumented sensors and fast sampling rates are required. For operation supervision and predictive maintanance lower performance and cost systems are prefered. Thanks to our fully digital systems we can offer both. Not only we can provide almost unlimited number of sensors sampled (i.e. “sensor channels), but also features such as in-operation two-way communication (turning sensors on/off, changing sampling rate), on device data storage and processing are possible.

    • 12 temperature measurement positions

    • 10 Hz sampling rate

    • wireless data transmission

    • battery powered, 100+ hours operation time on a single battery pack

Piston - conrod temperature

and ring pressure measurement

  • This is a good example of an older system for a R&D application. With more than 55 thermocouples and 2 pressure sensors instrumented in the piston and conrod, it provides a very detailed picture of the most crucial processes within the engine.

    Small speciality of this system is the indirect endoscopic routing of the thermocouples avoiding the deep bowl of the piston. It takes some very skilled hands to achieve this.

    Even though it is an older system, with a wired piston-conrod link we used to use for some applications, it still works to this day, with many hundreds hours of high load opeation under its belt.

    • 55 temperature measurement positions, 10 Hz sampling rate

    • 2 pressure measurement positions, 12 kHz sampling rate in bursts

Together with LEC GmbH we made systems for companies such as:

INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG

INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG

AVL LIST GMBH

AVL List GmbH

Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH

Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH