mPhase says it will show a small, extra sensitive magnetometer
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Norwalk, Connecticut-based mPhase Technologies (OTCBB:XDSL) says it will show its new ultra-sensitive magnetometer in late April at the New Jersey Technology Council’s 2nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Homeland Security & Defense Expo at Princeton University. Magnetometers detect changes or disturbances in magnetic fields and derive information on properties such as direction, presence, rotation, angle, or electrical currents. They make good sensors for a wide range of applications. The company’s uncooled magnetometer is designed to be produced with standard silicon production techniques. It will be very small in size, but produce a sensitivity which the company says will be up to 1,000 times greater than anything possible with today’s magnetometers for it size and power consumption of the device. mPhase CEO Ronald Durando says that “The extreme sensitivity of this device gives us the opportunity to develop the next generation of homeland security solutions ….In subways, for example, the planned magnetometer may be able to detect the presence of a metallic object from a single sensor or when integrated into a sensor network. Moreover, these relatively inexpensive sensors will allow multiple levels of security.”
-read more in this news release; read more about the 2nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Homeland Security and Defense Expo at event Web site
