User:Swschmitt/Neil Brown Ocean Sensors, Inc.

Neil Brown Ocean Sensors, Inc. (NBOSI), located in Falmouth, Massachusetts, is a small business dedicated to making a new generation of Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) sensors available for scientific and environmental monitoring. The company was founded in 2004 after the approval of Neil Brown's patent, U.S. patent 6,720,773. NBOSI provides businesses in the oceanographic field, such as Teledyne Webb Research and Hydroid Inc., with high precision CTD sensors.

History

Neil Brown Ocean Sensors, Inc. was formed in 2004 by the ocean engineer Neil Brown, physical oceanographer Ray Schmitt, and engineer Robert Petitt. The company was started shortly after Neil Brown was awarded his patent for an improved conductivity sensor (U.S. patent 6,720,773).

Products

NBOSI's CTD sensors are used on Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), off-ship profiling casts, and similar applications requiring fast dynamic response. Teledyne Webb Research uses a thru-hull version of the CTD on their gliders while Hydroid Inc. uses a cabled version on their REMUS AUVs.

Technology

Designs are based on Brown’s 2004 patent for a 4-electrode conductivity sensor with zero electric field. The CTD achieves its stability through a self referencing transformer-based design that corrects for thermal drift of components. The improved dynamic response has been found to be essential for avoiding errors in salinity calculations due to the different temporal responses of the thermometer and conductivity cell.

External links

• Neil Brown Ocean Sensors, Inc.