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OMRON, STMicroelectronics Unveil Industry-Unique Sensor for Smart Gas Metering

MEMS-based gas-flow sensor first to embed automatic gas-quality compensation

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

OMRON Corporation and STMicroelectronics announced the completion of the development of a MEMS-based gas flow sensor with industry-unique built-in correction for differences in gas composition. OMRON will start sample shipments of the new sensor in November 2012. As with electricity-consumption measuring, gas metering is moving from conventional mechanical solutions to smart electronic meters with automatic meter-reading functions. There are more than 400 million mechanical gas meters in the ...

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