Mantracourt have announced the release of their Wireless Active Repeater, a module that allows wireless instrumentation transmission to span around obstacles such as buildings or walls as well as increasing range. The repeater acts as a transparent link between Mantracourt’s T24 Acquisition modules and a base station or a handheld display.
The Active Repeater was originally developed to achieve greater coverage for wireless load cell technology in the construction sector. “The development of the Active Repeater helps us further build on the success of our T24 wireless telemetry range,” said Kelly Voysey, Sales and Marketing Manager at Mantracourt. “The T24 range is proving a great success and is now being used in a broad range of industries worldwide.” UK based Mantracourt is a leading manufacturer of industrial measurement technologies and a world leader in the design and manufacture of electronics for measurement technologies, including strain gauge, temperature, pressure, voltage, current, potentiometer, rate, flow, LVDT and displacement in either analog, digital or wireless form.
The Mantracourt T24 wireless telemetry range is a flexible low power radio system designed to enable the transmission of high accuracy measurement data from load cells, inclinometers, accelerometers, displacement and pressure sensors. With a combination of transmitter and receiver technologies, engineers are able to remotely monitor instrumentation readings. “As many engineers will be aware, a low power telemetry system can overcome a lot of logical problems when collecting instrumentation data in difficult to access locations,” said Kelly Voysey. “However, occasionally the range of this type of low power telemetry system can be a limitation, especially in a built up area.
The Active Repeater enables engineers to overcome this, broadening the coverage of the system and ensuring the integrity of the data being monitored. For more remote monitoring, the T24 system can also be interfaced to a GSM system.” The T24 system has a range of up to 200m (650ft) without the use of a repeater. Using the Active Repeater will allow messages to be repeated once, which can effectively double the radio range. It is powered by either a pair of alkaline ‘D’ Cells or an external power supply (5-18 Volts) and can be configured for extended battery life. The Repeater is also enclosed in an IP65 rated NEMA4 protected enclosure, to ensure protection in hostile environments.
About Mantracourt Mantracourt design and manufacture instrumentation for load cells, strain gauges, pressure sensors, torque transducers, flow sensors, temperature sensors, for signal conditioning, display and control using analog, digital and radio wireless telemetry techniques. Based near Exeter in the South-West of England, Mantracourt Electronics has become firmly established as a key technology provider to many major OEM sensor manufacturers and now has a product range of over 1000 designs. Key to its commercial success is Mantracourt’s specialist engineering team that is constantly developing new products using the latest technologies and components. Mantracourt was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2009. http://www.mantracourt.co.uk/ Mantracourt Contact: Kelly Voysey Marketing Coordinator tel: +44(0)1395 232020 [email protected] Media Contact: Richard Blackburn Energi Technical Ltd tel: 01603 436078 mobile: 0790 66 88 283 [email protected] www.energi-tech.co.uk
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