Analatom Customers

Market applications exist in different industries such as aerospace, petrochemical, utilities, land-based vehicles, and civil infrastructures and building structures. Analatom has contacts in each of these industries and each of them is or will shortly field-test the LPR corrosion sensors and data logging systems. The total market will increase in the future because high value structures, for technical and financial reasons are becoming more difficult to replace and hence they are left in service for longer becoming more prone to corrosion.

Aerospace: Prototype sensors are currently being field-tested by two major commercial airlines on passenger revenue flights. The manufacturer considers the sensor systems under development to be of significant value and successful field-testing will lead to installment of these sensors in commercial airlines. Furthermore, other potential aerospace customers from Europe and South America have contacted Analatom Inc. They have all expressed great interest in the product and initiated discussions to procure LPR sensors for prototype testing.

Petrochemical: Several companies in the petrochemical industry have been in contact with Analatom offering themselves as potential customers for its technology. Analatom received statements from the petrochemical industry expressing special interest in the miniaturized LPR sensors for which they can see several Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) applications. Chevron has tested and validated the LPR sensor. Petrochemical industry applications exist for monitoring of oil recovery equipment and verifying the integrity of oil and gas pipelines.

Utilities: The Analatom MEMS corrosion sensors have also applications in the utilities industry for monitoring corrosion of different systems, one being high voltage power grids. A European utilities company is evaluating Analatom’s MEMS sensors to monitor steel pylons. Present Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) practices repaints the towers on a ~7 year scheduled. The use of the Analatom Inc. system would increase this to ~10 years.

Land based vehicles: A US company has ordered a 100 number LPR micro sensor systems, the company is funded by the Army to maintain a corrosion center of excellence. The Army vehicles to be monitored for corrosion include land-based vehicles such as trucks and tanks and additionally Army helicopters. The successful LPR testing followed the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE) test protocols to represent realistic vehicle operation environment. Analatom and the company are now approaching the military and commercial trucking industry for installation of its Microflex Circuit mounted sensors into land based vehicles.

Civil Infrastructure and building structures: A major application of the Analatom LPR sensor is the monitoring of corrosion of the rebars in reinforced concrete and cables of suspension bridges. Analatom is now part of the Federal High Way Administration (FHWA) awarded contract to Columbia University, Parsons Transportation Group, Physical Acoustics and Drexel University to develop a distributed sensor network to be installed in suspension bridge cables. The bridges to be monitored are in New York. Additionally, Analatom is in discussion with the FHWA and Caltrans to monitor steel/iron cables of bridges such as the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge near San Francisco, California.

Civil Engineering: Caterpillar, Inc. contacted Analatom, Inc. for partnering on its SHIELD (Structural Health Integrated Electronic Life Determination System) ATP/NIST proposal. The partners also include Motorola, Inc. and Native American Technologies (NATech). In the SHIELD proposal the sensor work was performed by Analatom, the wireless data transmission by Motorola, the data collection by NATech and the structural analysis by Caterpillar.

Shipping Industry: For shipping applications Analatom has installed prototype sensors as a Structural Health Monitoring system in a shipping environment at Northrop Grumman the largest shipbuilder in the world. The testing has resulted in making an inquiry regarding feasibility and cost of installing the sensor system in a ship.