Omni Sensors and Transmitters Ltd., as UK Distributors for E+E Elektronik GmbH of Austria, are pleased to announce a major new contract won by E+E

E+E Elektronik has won a European tender for delivery of 500 Humidity Sensors for the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).

KNMI is the national data and knowledge centre for Weather, Climate and Seismology. The Institute is an agency of The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.

The humidity sensors will be mainly employed in the GMS-2 road monitoring system (ice warning system) of Rijkswaterstaat.(Public Works and Water Management), but also at automatic weather stations , air bases ,and airports in the Netherlands. The sensors will also be used on offshore platforms in the North Sea.

E+E won the tender with humidity sensors of the high end EE33 Series with innovative monolithic humidity and temperature sensing element, and with separately controlled heating for the sensing element and the sensing head. E+E competence in calibration and the fact that E+E maintains the national Austrian standard for humidity, dewpoint and temperature in air were other important decision factors.

Further details on the EE33 series are available from Omni Sensors and Transmitters Ltd