Electro Standards Laboratories (ESL) offers a broad range of data acquisition and process control instrumentation, as well as digital signal conditioners for load cell and linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) measurement sensors.

These support various applications such as:

• Measurement of material physical properties
• Jet engine thrust
• Bottle filling
• Pipe bucking
• Other process measurement and control instrumentation

Figure 1: ESL offers a wide range of data acquisition and process control instrumentation. Source: ESLCommercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products include the Model 4215 Load Cell/LVDT Electronics and CellMite® Digital Signal Conditioners. They are available encased or board-only for embedded applications.

Also commercially available are the Fiber/USB Load Cell Extender/Isolator Host and Hub pair, which is used for extending the distance of four USB load cells over 500 meters.

It is ideal for:

• Platform scale application
• Industrial control
• Weight tables
• Isolated DAQ
• Remotely located USB sensors
• Fiber optic isolation from noise
• Plug-and-play USB

Industries supported include production process management, material testing laboratories, aerospace and defense industries, oil refineries, steel manufacturing and many others.

Such products will save factory or laboratory time and money by providing highly accurate, high speed data and visible metrics with compatible graphing software.

Custom designs are also available to work with any application. ESL has a team of R&D engineers and scientists available onsite, as well as its own manufacturing facilities within the same location. This allows ESL to solve any problem, by taking an idea from theory to prototype development, then through rigid testing to turn it into the perfect solution for any application.

The R&D contract engineering services group also has expertise in energy storage, management, and integration of monolithic and hybrid systems made from combinations of lithium ion super capacitors, batteries, turbines and solar cells.

Products that have emerged from this research include the SCups® line of super capacitor uninterruptible power supplies and ESL’s lithium-ion capacitor energy action system development shelf — an industry first.

name="_Hlk31698123">ESL’s team of scientists and engineers has developed controls, models, hardware and the software for electromagnetic aircraft launch systems deployed in aircraft carriers for aircraft launch and landings.

Applying knowledge of data acquisition and sensor technology toward biotechnology, ESL’s research team has worked alongside doctors and professors in developing a closed-loop, noninvasive system to treat neurological disorders such as PTSD.

ESL has also collaborated with local universities to develop ocean wave energy harvesting systems designed for sensor buoys to convert wave motion into electricity and allow operation under all weather conditions. The goal of the program is to develop wave energy converters that can operate in all environmental conditions and augment or replace any of the currently used battery/solar power systems with efficient, low-cost, ambient ocean wave energy systems.

The company is also seeking organizations with applications for this technology, or with an interest in furthering this scientific study, or who are interested in commercializing the technology.

Targeted applications for the technology include:

• Recharging stations for unmanned underwater vehicle
• Replacement or augmentation for solar power
• Elimination of batteries
• Sonar listening stations
• Weather monitoring buoys
• Wave monitoring buoys
• Tsunami warning stations
• Port monitoring buoys

ESL is proud to be a prime contractor of Seaport-e and Seaport Next Generation, supporting the U.S. Navy. ESL also offers many products at a discounted rate on the GSA schedule for government purchasers on GSA contract number GS-35F-0286V.

All ESL products are designed and assembled in the U.S. and can be exported all over the world. With over 40 years of expertise in providing state-of-the-art solutions for application-specific products, it is easy to see why ESL is the right choice.

Find out more at www.electrostandards.com or give them a call at 401-943-1164 or email: ESLAB@electrostandards.com.