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Sensing Technologies

Exciting News from Au and our Partners!!!!!

  • Everybody wants to use PID but it ALWAYS has problems…. CONDENSATION OF WATER!
  • Heatwave has arrived… and it is a GAME CHANGER.
  • This patent pending new technology is changing the world of Environmental TVOC monitoring.
  • For the past 15 years there has been a struggle to find a way to make PID sensors useful in ambient TVOC monitoring applications. PID is inexpensive compared to other monitoring approaches and it is simple to use.
  • Just about everybody tried to use PID sensors in ambient TVOC applications and just about everybody failed.
  • Au has changed the game completely. The new HEATWAVE PID SENSOR is greatly immune to the negative effects of moisture condensation.

In the words of one of our Beata Test customers:

“I never thought PID sensors would perform well enough to use in ambient TVOC measurement. Heatwave has changed my mind. It actually works. It is the simple solution we always wanted from PID”.

Heatwave Series PID Sensor

Now Available

The revolutionary new, Moisture Tolerant Heatwave Series VOC sensors are simple 3-pin devices (PWR, GND & 0-2.5V signal) that sense their environment via diffusion. These sensor can be enclosed in a special housing and adapted for flow-thru sampling configurations if desired.

Most importantly, these sensor do not allow moisture to condense inside of their internal critical components.

  • Heatwave PID Sensors work where other PID Sensors have repeatedly failed.
  • Direct replacement for expensive and low performance sensors
  • Affordable & Long Life (7500 lamp hours) 10.6 eV lamp
  • Temperature Stable & Humidity Tolerant
  • Sensitive and Repeatable
  • Fast Warm-Up

Rainbow Series PID Sensor

Now Available

The Rainbow Series VOC sensors are simple 3-pin devices (PWR, GND & 0-2.5V signal) that sense their environment via diffusion. These sensor can be enclosed in a special housing and adapted for flow-thru sampling configurations and can even give good results when placed at the end of a chromatographic separations column.

  • Direct replacement for expensive and low performance sensors
  • Affordable & Long Life (7500 lamp hours) 10.6 eV lamp
  • Temperature Stable & Humidity Tolerant
  • Sensitive and Repeatable
  • Fast Warm-Up & Low Power

Cyclone FID – Organic Compound Detector

Now Available

Cyclone is an innovative new flame ionization detector design with extraordinary performance specifications.

FID is well known as a universal hydrocarbon (organic compounds) detector. It can be configured to sense gas phase propane to less than 1 ppb (by volume) or with various dynamic ranges, up to 100% propane. The detector is virtually unaffected by hot and wet samples and will operate with reasonable particulate loads. This makes the FID a very good choice for many environmental monitoring applications.

  • Manifold Mounted for compact design
  • Inclusion of focus electrode greatly improves performance.
  • Extremely Stable vs Temperature (to 190 C)
  • Linear over 6 Orders of magnitude in single fixed configuration
  • Highly Sensitive (1 ppbv or 2mg/m3 as propane)

Fireworks II – Stand Alone Smart Sensor – Electronic FID Sensor

Coming soon!

Fireworks is an organic compound sensor based on the Cyclone FID. This sensor includes the necessary electronic circuitry to provide easy adjustment of various configuration parameters and to operate without the need for custom circuits.

  • Cyclone FID with support electronics
  • Operates in Polling or Streaming modes
  • Onboard Calibration for reporting directly in units of concentration
  • Signal digitization
  • Polarizing voltage control
  • Flame lighting and monitoring
  • Multiple communication options
  • Requires flow-controlled fuel and combustion air in addition to flow controlled sample.

Microscope is included

Fireworks is delivered with Microscope Dashboard to facilitate OEM product development



PID Max™ – Digital Wide Range PID Sensor

Coming soon!

The PID Max is a 7P format ,digital PID sensor with an extremely large measurement range. The PID Max™ will be our first PID sensor to feature our innovative humidity mitigation technology in addition to humidity signal compensation.

  • Wide range – 1 ppb to 20,000 ppm in a single 7P device
  • Set ranges are also available
  • Dual signal digitization
  • Polarizing voltage control
  • Humidity mitigation to greatly improve life and provide stability, measurement precision and accuracy.
  • Humidity compensation
  • RS-232 Communications

In our product offering, we include both sensors and detectors:

  • A sensor requires power (and possibly support gases) to operate and it produces a signal proportional to the amount of the target compounds present in the sample.
  • A detector requires more than just power. It may require special external circuitry to configure range and sensitivity and possibly other specialized external controls which enable it to operate in a useful manner.
  • The difference between a sensor and a detector may seem insignificant but it is important to understand these differences when developing OEM products that incorporate them.
Beverage CO2 Plant @ JADE (Perth, WA, Australia)

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