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The 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show

For four days, Las Vegas was home to some of the most innovative technology products ever seen. This year's International CES kicked off on January 6th, and had not only the most technologically advanced products featured on the show floor, but also gave attendees the opportunity to listen to presentations given by some of the brightest in the industry.

Learn How to Monitor Multiple Critical Spaces From One Location

The "central command station" of each floor in a hospital (aka the central nurse's station) plays a critical role in the proper operation of OR suites, isolation wards, and other critical spaces where room condition is crucial. Floor nurses and circulating nurses are tasked with monitoring multiple rooms in their wing, which requires them to physically check each room's condition via the room's condition monitoring device.

Three Part Blog Series: Why Building Humidity is Important

Selecting a Proper Humidity Sensor

Throughout this three part blog series, real world scenarios, health & safety concerns, cost savings, mold prevention, and industry best practices for proper sensor selection relating to building humidity levels will be reviewed and analyzed. Part 3 examines the best practices for selecting the right humidity sensor for wall mount, duct mount, or outside air along tips for field replacement.

Three Part Blog Series: Why Building Humidity is Important

Health Risk & Dangers

Throughout this three part blog series, real world scenarios, health & safety concerns, cost savings, mold prevention, and industry best practices for proper sensor selection relating to building humidity levels will be reviewed and analyzed. Part 2 takes a deeper dive into the health risks and damages of failing to properly measure building humidity. Risks and damages include: an overview of sick building syndrome, mold growth, and how to prevent mold from occurring.

Three Part Blog Series: Why Measuring Building Humidity is Important

Throughout this three part blog series, real world scenarios, health & safety concerns, cost savings, mold prevention, and industry best practices for proper humidity sensor selection relating to building humidity levels will be reviewed and analyzed. Part 1 focuses on why monitoring building humidity levels are necessary and what health risks and dangers could come into play when humidity isn't properly measured.

How to Select Differential Pressure Transducers For Low-Differential, Critical Pressure Applications Part 2

System manufacturers are providing the highest quality, most reliable, and most energy efficient automobiles, airplanes, turbine and gas engines, and associated components ever produced. This is due in large part to the manufacturer's ever increasing demand for rigorous test and measurement of these products. 

For Low-Differential, Critical Pressure Applications Part 1 of 2

System manufacturers are providing the highest quality, most reliable, and most energy efficient automobiles, airplanes, turbine and gas engines, and associated components ever produced. This is due in large part to the manufacturer's ever increasing demand for rigorous test and measurement of these products. Differential pressure transducers are an integral part of that process for applications that demand reliability, repeatability, and high accuracy. This paper discusses how differential pressure transducers are used in critical pressure applications, two performance characteristics of a differential pressure transducer, and why they are important to consider when selecting a pressure transducer for low differential, critical pressure applications.

Pressure Sensors In Critical Environments

One of the most important decision that mechanical designers, engineers, and architects can make is the selection of a low-differential pressure transducer for critical-care ventilation. These transducers perform precise monitoring and contamination control of isolation-room pressures in critical environments. Pressures can be either positive for protective isolation, or negative for airborne infectious isolation control.

NECN Interview With Setra

Setra’s Room Pressure Monitor, SRPM, was highlighted on the ‘Saving Dr. Brantly’ segment on NBC a few weeks ago, as it was installed on all of the isolation rooms at Emory Hospital in Atlanta.

On Wednesday October 22, Peter Howe from New England’s News Station (NECN) came to Setra to interview David Carr, General Manager of Setra, to learn more about how Setra’s line of Room Pressure Monitors can help prepare hospitals around the world for an epidemic, such as Ebola.

Industrial pressure transducers are used in a wide variety of applications ranging from HVAC/R compressors, refrigeration and variable speed pumps to hydraulic pressure, oil and water. A transducer can be used anywhere there's a pipeline or chamber, its function is to sense and convert pressures into a proportional electrical output signal that is transmitted to monitoring or control system.