Our Vision
First we went through a computing revolution with micro-processors becoming smaller and smaller packing more and more transistors into tinier cheaper packages. Then we went through the communications revolution with blue tooth, wifi, cellular and now 5G and satellite based communications becoming ubiquitous and inexpensive. What is the next revolution on deck? Ber believe It will be trillions of cloud connected sensors helping us monitor everything from temperature, pressures, light conditions, traffic, industrial processes, inventory and what have you! We are still in the very early innings of this transformation sweeping the world.
Loadstar Sensors wants to enable this tranformation by providing sensors, interfaces and software to easily incorporate sensors into YOUR application easily, quickly and inexpensively. We enable you to connect sensors to a PC, PLC, Smart Phone or into the Cloud. Our guiding principle is - Sensing Made Easy!
Plug and Sense Simplicity
Our technology enables end users without any knowledge of sensors or interfaces or signal conditioners to use them on a PC or PLC and start measuring within minutes. Whether you want to work with just one sensor or a few or hundreds to thousands of them per site, we have a solution for you!
Our technology enables software developers to build great new applications that incorporate sensors such as force and load sensors into their application effortlessly. You don't need to be an electronics engineer to use one! This simplicity of use is what we refer to as "Plug and Sense Simplicity".
Key Highlights of Our Technology
We offer sensors for force, weight, displacement, torque, pressure, level and temperatures. Our digital interfaces allow you to connect digitally via UART, USB, WiFi, BLE or Xbee or via Analog 0-5V DC output. We try to offer the broadest range of interfaces for your application.
The sensors and interfaces can work on as lows as 3.V DC or 5 vDC and draw as low as 10 mW of power to help you save energy and run on rechargeable batteries for a truly cable free operation.
Our capacitive sensors output frequency as the basic signal proportional to loads. The resistive load cells output low level analog signals. Using various digital and analog signal conditioners, we provide higher level analog (0 to 5V DC) or digital (UASRT, USB, Serial, WiFi, BLE and XBee Wireless) outputs to help you work with the best channel and protocol for your application.
All our digital sensors and electronics come with built in APIs that can be used to develop your custom application without paying us royalties or annual software license fees in most cases. You can use any programming language or any computing platform to talk to our sensors and interfaces via simple ASCII commands.
Whether you want to use one sensor or thousands, our sensors and interface technology can be scaled up modularly to meet your demands. You can start with just a few to try out and then add additional units as needed.
Our patented technology and in house development in Silicon Valley combined with a world wide supply chain, enables us to build these sensors & interfaces at significantly lower cost. In volume, our prices can be lower than our competition by 30-50%.
Sensor to Cloud
Connect your load cell to the Cloud for access anywhere, anytime on any device.
