VPG Weighing System To Be Featured At White House Summit
May 15 2014 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (NYSE: VPG), a leading producer of
precision sensors and systems, based on its resistive foil
technology, today announced that its G4 Weighing Instrument will be
featured at the SmartAmerica Challenge Summit, taking place at the
White House in June 2014.
Ziv Shoshani, VPG’s chief executive officer said, “We are proud
that we have been invited to demonstrate our technology at the
SmartAmerica Challenge. This summit, created to feature systems
that have the potential to improve safety, sustainability,
efficiency, mobility, and overall quality of life for people around
the world, is a perfect venue for us to show how we are committed
to developing innovative technology, which is a result of our
strategy to support organic growth.”
The G4, a product of BLH Nobel, will be utilized in the
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) test bed. In the
demonstration, the device — which supports the legacy Modbus TCP
protocol — will be ported to a server in Sweden using the XMPP
instant messaging protocol, as defined by the IEEE P21451-1-4
committee, allowing real-time monitoring of a dispensing process.
Through such connectivity, many other connected devices in the
industrial sector would be able to participate in the IoT.
The G4 Weighing System offers high speed and high accuracy
measurements for industrial applications, such as process weighing
and control, force measurement, web tension measurement and
control, automation, force vector calculations, high dynamic force
measurement, and high-speed batching/blending systems. The modular
unit provides users with a highly flexible, upgradeable, single
instrument system capable of weighing up to eight independent
vessels or scales.
Created by the National Institute of Technology (NIST) in 2013,
the goal of the SmartAmerica Challenge is to accelerate IoT
advances by providing a venue for innovators to present concepts
for interconnected Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) technology,
programs, and test beds to demonstrate the potential for improving
the economy, fueling job creation, creating new business
opportunities, and saving costs. The initiative will culminate in
the SmartAmerica Challenge Summit at the White House, where teams
will present their achievements. More information on the
SmartAmerica Challenge can be found at
http://www.nist.gov/el/smartamerica.cfm.
About VPG
Vishay Precision Group, Inc. is an internationally recognized
designer, manufacturer and marketer of: components based on its
resistive foil technology; sensors; and sensor-based systems
specializing in the growing markets of stress, force, weight,
pressure, and current measurements. VPG is a market leader of Foil
Technology Products, providing ongoing technology innovations in
precision foil resistors and foil strain gages, which are the
foundation of the company's Force Sensors Products and its Weighing
and Control Systems. The product portfolio consists of a variety of
well-established brand names recognized for precision and quality
in the marketplace. To learn more, visit VPG at
www.vpgsensors.com.
VPGWendy WilsonSenior Director Investor Relations and Corporate
Communications919-374-5501wendy.wilson@vpgsensors.com
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