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• RBR's sales network continues it's expansion with the appointment of Maritech as our representative in France

Maritech (www.maritech.fr) has been involved with sales and installation of marine equipment for over 20 years, including: Side-scan sonar, Echo-sounders, Profilers, Current meters and buoys. Their experience will be invaluable in providing local support for the RBR range of instruments and will complement their existing portfolio.

• RBR is pleased to appoint the Technopole Company as our representative in Russia

RBR has reached an agreement with Technopole to market and support their oceanographic instruments and environmental monitoring products in Russia. Technopole is involved in technological research and development in Russia with an emphasis on Marine and Freshwater instrumentation.

• RBR is pleased to appoint Den-Ar as our representative in Turkey

RBR has reached an agreement with Den-Ar (www.den-ar.com) to market and support their oceanographic instruments and environmental monitoring products in Turkey . This agreement builds on existing sales and a relationship that will continue to serve the Turkish oceanographic and meteorological instrumentation market; Den-Ar provides a range of ocean engineering services on a regional scale in Middle East.

• RBR is pleased to appoint GWM Engineering as our representative in Finland

RBR has reached an agreement with GWM-Engineering (www.gwm-engineering.fi) to market and support their oceanographic instruments and environmental monitoring products in Finland . We anticipate that this agreement will support RBR’s current sales in the region and will support the growing need for environmental instrumentation in the Baltic.  GWM-Engineering provides a broad range of freshwater and marine measurement technologies in Finland.

• RBR is proud to announce that it has joined the Smart Ocean Sensor Consortium as a founding member

The Smart Ocean Sensor Consortium is a group of manufacturers and users dedicated to improving the reliability, utility and cost-effectiveness of hydrographic sensor networks through the adoption, development, and promotion of appropriate standard interfaces and protocols. Manufacturing members will supply a universal unique identifier (UUID) with each compliant instrument, and will comply with a group-defined interface to retrieve the UUID from the device's serial port. The Consortium will work towards a sponsored submission to the Open Geospatial Consortium process as one of its goals for wider acceptance and dissemination. For further details contact:

Neil Cater, Chair - SOSC,

• Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland,
• PO Box 4920, St John’s, NL, A1C 5R3, Canada,
• Ph. +1 709 778 0200, Fax. +1 709 778 0346.

• RBR wrapped up another excellent year in 2008

  2008 saw further sales increases and additional product releases for RBR. Capping off one of the best years in its history, RBR introduced several new products and developments; including:

  • The XRX Series of instruments - A Multi-channel Logger with support for up to 10 Sensors
  • MBARI "Puck" enabled instrument

• RBR Commits to MBARI PUCK Protocol (October 2008)

RBR is working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - (MBARI) to develop “PUCK” enabled instruments. Such instruments facilitate integration of RBR sensors into monitoring networks using the PUCK protocol to configure real time settings and upload data. An RBR instrument is part of a current MBARI demonstration of a network of diverse instruments using IEEE-1451, Sensor Web Enablement, and PUCK standards. PUCK enablement demonstrates RBR’s understanding that end user requirements are driving manufacturers towards instruments that are readily interoperable.

• RBR appoints Director of Engineering (August 2008)

RBR has appointed Dr. Greg Johnson as Director of Research and Development. Greg will head up the R & D team at RBR and drive the development of the company’s leading edge oceanographic & fresh water instruments as well as the associated software and communications technologies required to deliver solutions to increasingly sophisticated users around the globe. Greg obtained his first degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal. His PhD in materials science is from Manchester University. He has worked for a number of large research facilities in the UK and France, across a range of disciplines. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, cycling, and reckless kite flying.

Product News

• Improved MS-310: a Salinometer without Compromise (February 2009)

  RBR is introducing a number of improvements to the MS-310, our portable salinometer with laboratory specifications and high-speed direct reading of conductivity ratio. These include:

  • mechanical upgrades to the packaging;
  • four layers of coil insulation for addition ruggedness;
  • facility for external control of the unit via a USB relay interface;
  • a 600mm heat exchanger coil on the inflow of the sample to halve the settling time;
  • low-noise electronics to further improve settling time; and
  • a medical grade peristaltic pump with simple service access.

These improvements further enhance the ease with which the unit can be serviced in remote stations, including an automated three-step standardisation process.

• New XRX series multi-parameter datalogger (June 2008)

The new XRX Series of multi-parameter data loggers allows ten sensor channels to be handled by a single instrument, including CTD, Turbidity, Fluorescence, pH, DO, ORP and other physical and biological parameters. The unit supports RS232 and RS485 data communications and external power, in addition to the standard internal autonomous mode. The XRX is an extension of the existing RBR sensor and logger range and the depth rating is down to 740m, depending on the sensors fitted.

 

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