Netzer Precision Motion Sensors has launched its new SSI interface – available within the Electric encoder™ or as an external board. The industrial common digital streaming – SSI, provides a wide variety of options and flexibility to the existing Netzer DS product line of the Electric Encoder™. Netzer Precision Motion Sensors' implementation of the SSI includes the intelligent sensors capabilities with advanced calibration and tuning tools for high precision output.

Netzer's world-wide patented, rugged high performance Electric Encoder™ technology, suits a wide variety of applications ranging from space and avionics, through military and defense, to instrumentation and automotive.

The Electric Encoder™ non-contact technology relies on interaction between the measured displacement and a space/time modulated electric field. It offers a blend of features unequalled by optical or magnetic encoders.

Advantages of Electric Encoders™ include:

•Simple, robust structure with a virtually no- failure- mechanism

•Generous mounting tolerances

•Very low weight, inertia, and profile (=<10mm)

•Ring shaped, hollow shaft with a wide range of diameters

•Absolute position output over 360° rotation range

•Precision to 0.001° in selected models

•Default operation range from -55°C to +125°C

•Dual and triple redundancy options

•No magnetic signature

•High tolerance to condensation and contaminants

•Insensitivity to EMI/RFI and magnetic fields

•High customizability

•Low power consumption

•Ultra-high-speed options

•Wide variety of position feedback protocols

Netzer Precision Motion Sensors has taken a revolutionary position sensing technology, originally developed for harsh environment specialized applications, and made it available for today's broader range of defense, homeland security, aerospace and instrumentation motion control requirements. Standard and customized rotary and linear electric encoders are also applicable to medical, automotive and a wide range of other applications.