For the eighth time, AMA Association for Sensor Technology will award its annual 10,000 € SENSOR Innovation Award on occasion of its Trade Exhibition SENSOR+TEST. The award is reserved to go not to companies or institutes but rather to the individual developers themselves.

 

This year the prize went to a team of three developers from InfraTec GmbH, the Technical University of Chemnitz, and Fraunhofer IZM Chemnitz.

 

Despite a slight decline in the number of application, the quality of applications this year remained at the established outstanding level customary for the SENSOR Innovation Award. More than one third of all applications came from outside of Germany, confirming the award’s good international reputation.

 

Led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Schütze of the University of Saarbrücken, the jury had in February 2008 nominated three entries as finalists to the award. In a second round the jury decided on the winner based on a considerable lead in all evaluation criteria. As part of the opening ceremony of the SENSOR+TEST 2008, the jury and the Chairman of the Executive Board of AMA Association for Sensor Technology presented the awards to the nominated teams and especially to the winner.

 

The nominated innovations were

“Intelligent Multisensoric Writing System BiSP®”

Fachhochschule Regensburg - Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik (University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Electronics and Information Technology Department)

Team spokesman: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kempf

 

“SensFloor® - Sensitive Floor Covering for “Ambient Assisted Living” Applications”

Future-Shape GmbH + Ing.-Büro Rupert Glaser

Team spokeswoman: Christl Lauterbach, Future-Shape GmbH, Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn

 

Dr. Norbert Neumann (Fa. InfraTec GmbH, Dresden), Dr. Karla Hiller (TU Chemnitz - ZMT), and Dr. Steffen Kurth (Fraunhofer IZM Chemnitz) for the development

 

Infrared sensorics and measurement technology has a broad spectrum of applications in the analysis of gases, liquids and surfaces. Users until now only had the choice of either compact filter-based sensors (NDIR) that work only in a restricted wavelength region or of elaborate spectrometer solutions. Thus many attempts have been made to miniaturize Fabry-Perot interferometers in order to achieve tunable micromechanical IR filters. After stringent optimization of configuration and processing, the present volume- and micromechanically implemented system presents the first successful realization of a very effective module with good spectral resolution and high optical quality, suitable for a broad range of applications, ranging from environmental monitoring through security to medical technology.

 

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