Modern agriculture is making increasing use of navigation systems to increase yield. Precision Farming, or Precision Agriculture as it is now called, is the term being applied to describe the use of high technology in agricultural processes. The aim is generally quite ...

Enabling a breadth of new technologies to emerge into the mainstream vehicle market. Vehicles continue to be fitted with an increasing number of active and passive safety / driver assistance technologies requiring ever more sophisticated inertial sensor input. This ...

Modernising cockpit systems with ultra-reliable solid state MEMS sensors. Traditional spinning wheel mechanical gyroscopes in aircraft were great in their day, but they were big, heavy, expensive and, like all things that spin on bearings, they needed routine maintenance. Not the sort of device you ...

Keeping mobile satellite TV antennas pointing in the right direction. Watching satellite TV at home is nothing remarkable, watching it in the back of a car on the road or boat at sea is. Keeping the antenna ('dish') of a satellite TV ...

Silicon Sensing gyros provide the enabling technology at the heart of the Segway PT The Segway PT is instantly recognisable across the world as a unique and alternative means of transport. Its press launch in December 2001 attracted enormous attention. But, by ...