Scientific R & D
Our worldwide customer base in the scientific R&D business field has now grown to hundreds of users coming from the University of Alaska in Anchorage to the University of Wellington in New Zealand. Over the last eleven years, we have delivered our special microsensors and our non-invasive systems for various applications such as respirometry, biology, or medical research.
We offer a wide variety of sensors and transmitters.
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Imaging Solutions - 2D sensing of oxygen-, pH- and CO2- distributions: Seeing the invisible!
PreSens is about to expand its product portfolio towards image processing devices which make use of the unique and well established PreSens sensor technology. Complementary to our high resolution single point sensing systems, the new imaging devices record the sensor response of a planar sensor foil which covers the surface of the sample. This combination of digital imaging technology with optical sensor technology results in a unique method for making visible the invisible: the optical sensor foil translates the respective analyte content into a light signal which is recorded pixel by pixel using a digital camera. Heterogeneous samples can now easily be evaluated with respect to reliable addressing regions with high or low analyte content because one single image contains the information of an array of single point sensors!
Imaging System and Sensors
The system consist of a camera equipped detection head...
Software
The software allows controlling the image recording process and...
Applications
Spatially highly resolved imaging of heterogeneous systems using...
PreSens in Practise
- Red necked ostrich chicks at the Adventure Zoo Hannover
Breeding endangered red necked ostriches is an ambitious project of the Zoo Hannover. Through its commitment the zoo wants to contribute to keeping this species alive. But artifical breeding is by no means easy. Equipment from PreSens for non-invasive measurements of oxygen helped to optimize the incubation installation.
In spring 2011 the Adventure Zoo Hannover succeeded in hatching 15 out of 24 red necked ostrich eggs and raising all chickens. The eggs were imported from Morocco in North Africa. Foregone was the contruction and optimization of an incubating installation for the conservation breeding of this rare animal. And the insistent appeal of Dr. Heiner Engel, Head of the Zoological Department, to all relevant authorities to allow the import of ostrich eggs from North Africa. In 2010 he finally held the offical permission in his hands.
- Dr. Stephan Blossfeld, Biologist
For geobotanists and other biologists whose work focuses on analyzing vegetation (particularly in soil), oxygen and carbon dioxide contents and pH values in the rhizosphere are important indicators that can lead to solid conclusions regarding the activity of plants and their conditions. Whith the help of the measuring technology by PreSens, the German biologist Dr. Stephan Blossfeld was able to determine how metabolic processes in soil evolve across long periods of time and which parameters are responsible for their changes through the use of relatively simple but extremely precise instruments. During a period of approx. 8 weeks 1.1 million pH measurements were performed in an automated manner.
