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Matrix-5 Technologies, Inc.
- Systems integrator of networked automated monitoring systems
for industrial, commercial, and government groups. We specialize in
seismic and meteorological/photovoltaic instrumentation which operates at remote
outdoor sites. Related products include our advanced SP3 series Seismic
Alarm Device , several types of Surge-Protectors
specific to analog and digital sensors and solar-panels.
We also design and assemble custom-fabricated remote instrumentation enclosures
which include solar-power panels/sub-systems, wiring, and cooling/filtering.
To economically satisfy requirements for industrial/scientific electronics not
otherwise available, we design and assemble custom circuit-boards and/or design
and package in ruggedized enclosures.
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The the design of our products and accessories for remote instrumentation
derives from our experience of solving tough communications and monitoring problems at
remote sites. This experience involved meteorological, geotechnical, seismic,
hydrological, aerospace, and industrial applications of computer, wireless,
telemetry, networking, data-communications, and electronics technology.
Remote Met-Station with standard and custom solar sensors
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Seismic Station Infrastructure & Enclosure Design
Remote Digital Seismic Station
Seismic Alarm Device with Voice-Dialer
Custom Power-Conditioning Card for Quantum Sensors Group
Matrix-5 is a technology-based firm with the mission to develop and
manufacture remote instrumentation products and accessories
using data-communications and embedded processor technology. Matrix-5 has been
operating for 20+ years; the principals have directly related technical and
management experience spanning 30+ years.
In general, we develop and integrate embedded-controller monitoring and
data-communication systems which employ wireless technology. Much of the time
we also design/assemble custom cables and accessories for remote instrumentation.
When required, our products include proprietary or custom software to provide
more advanced features at lower cost. However, we prefer to
take an 'open architecture' approach. A constant effort is made to apply proven
technology and 'standard product' components. Major customers are USBR, USGS,
USCOE, NIST, PV-power developer, and geotechnical groups (private and gov't).
Please note that a major growth market is now served by our solar-sensor
enhanced meteorological stations targeted at the photovoltaic
power-production industry. In 2009 we are rolling out portable solar irradiance
monitoring equipment ideal for prospective site evaluation.
Areas of application for our instrumentation technology are:
- Solar radiation measurement/monitoring
- Meteorological measurement/monitoring
- Seismic recording stations
- Special monitoring in industrial facilities (e.g., power-plant geotechnical)
- Vibration monitoring related to construction
Manufacturability and serviceability are considered very important.
Areas of expertise such as software, user-interfaces, digital hardware, analog
hardware, materials-science, and data-communications are combined with solid,
practical experience with enclosures, sealing, isolation, transient protection,
diagnostics, ruggedizing, maintenance, and connectorizing.
Regarding system integration, we are as familiar and comfortable with
software and the Internet as we are with PCB-design, board-stuffing and cable-assembly.
Similarly, we are flexible regarding suppliers. When one supplier doesn't provide a good
fit to new or unique customer needs, we can rapidly find and use another. We keep our
overhead low, stay responsive, and move very fast when required. We are familiar with
many sensor technologies and related acquisition/signal-conditioning/conversion.
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Following are a number of key products which exhibit our design and
manufacturing capabilities.
- Solar-sensor enhanced meteorological stations which
employs wireless networking, data-logging, high-end solar-irradiance sensors,
and pyroheliometer-tracker -- with web-page for customer access to databases
- Accessory equipment for seismic recording stations;
includes sensor- and data-comm cables, solar-power subsystems, enclosures,
grounding and surge-protection components/devices, cable-testers
- Portable Solar-Measurement Units with cellular (GPRS) data-communications
for site-evaluation; solar-powered and designed for 24x7 operation over years.
- Integrated early-warning systems which monitor sensors and
detect event signals and immediately respond with voice, fax, or data
messages to selected recipients
- High-speed digital radio modems integrated into long-range, mixed-mode
telemetry systems and early-warning systems
- Simple-to-use, targeted smart equipment monitors for
industrial applications where more complex and involved PLCs or computers
are not economic; for example, conveyor speed monitoring combining trip
relays and analog outputs
- Smart seismic sensor (accelerometer) interfaces and calibrators
- Advanced high-speed, high-resolution A/D systems capable
of 16-bit conversions of two channels at 450,000 samples/sec each into 5Mb
of buffer space (no particular PC, bus, or processor required); expands to
four channels -- for high-frequency seismic and vibration applications
- Various specialized data-loggers and data-acquisition systems
integrated to meet specifications which off-the-shelf products do not meet
- Custom and specialized sensor packages fabricated for
pressure, temperature, vibration, acceleration, displacement, load, and
water-level monitoring and recording
- Hardware interfaces for digital data and data-communications
- Electrical transient protection equipment for sensor signals
- Automated data-acquistion for soil-testing laboratories
telco circuits
- High-power power-supplies and low-noise, low-power sensor power-supplies
- Networked/on-line smart sensors made practical by
integrated smart transmitters
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- New product design involving sensors, data-interfaces, and
embedded-controllers with professional attention to specifications, budget,
time-frame, and documentation
- Software packages to collect and manage geotechnical and
hydrological data for purposes of dam performance evaluation and flood
prediction; includes field data collection subsystems and large databases
- Monitoring circuit and system design
- Embedded-controller hardware and software
- Computer and instrumentation installation and maintenance
- Spread-spectrum radio surveys with propagation analyses
and antenna recommendations for digital data telemetry; developed in-house
propagation analysis package which uses public-domain 3-arcsec terrain data.
- Sound and vibration data-acquisition
- Analog and digital circuit-board design, prototype, and
manufacturing
- Scientific/Engineering Software Development using
problem-oriented languages (such as C, AWK, PYTHON, FORTRAN, BASIC, ASSEMBLY)
and knowledge of advanced numerical methods for analysis and modelling.
Developed advanced serial communications scripting language.
- Custom instrument cable assembly for field recording systems
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Links to companies we use and recommend
- Embedded ARM-based
processors with low power requirements, numerous interfaces. (Technologic Systems Inc.)
- High-speed,
long-range, low-power (no-license) radio modems with multiple interfaces. (Freewave Corp.)
- High-speed,
long-range, ethernet-bridges and industrial radios for wireless LANs. (GE MDS)
- High-speed,
long-range, ethernet-bridges and industrial radios/systems. (Sales for GE MDS Radios)
- Easily-networked,
reliable, precision analog and digital I/O (smart remote transmitters). (DGH Corp.)
- Broad range of solar
radiation instrumentation; world-class high-quality instruments. (KIPP & ZONNEN)
- Advanced seismic
early-warning network and systems. (USBR seismo group)
- Rugged motorized lenses,
cameras, and high-performance IR illuminators for outdoor sites. (ISO-RAINBOW Inc.)
Matrix-5 Technologies, Inc.
Voice: 303-987-2713
Fax: 303-987-2719
If you have requests or comments, email me at
denisb@matrix-5.com
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