Abstract: The present disclosure describes, among other things, a method. The method may include receiving, by a wireless communication device, an instruction to actuate a valve. The method may also include receiving a period of time. The method may also include applying energy from a battery to the valve for the period of time.

Abstract: A non-interfering multipath communication technique establishes a base transmit and receive period for a variety of spaced apart transceiver devices of a base station and communicates between at least one field station and the base station through those transceiver devices; a period of the base station is allocated amongst the transceiver devices to maintain the non-interfering multipath communication between the at least one field station and the base station.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes, among other things, a method. The method may include receiving an instruction to actuate a valve. The method may also include receiving a first period of time. The method may also include applying energy to the valve for the first period of time. The method may also include comparing a first state of the valve with a state in the instruction. The method may also include determining a second period of time by increasing the first period of time. The method may also include applying energy to the valve for the second period of time. The method may also include determining that a second state of the valve matches the state in the instruction.

Abstract: A dew and/or frost point measurement instrument and related method are disclosed. An electrically actuated micro/nanoscale resonating element is formed over a resonator substrate. A temperature controlled platform is provided in thermal communication with the resonator substrate. A temperature sensing element is provided in thermal communication with the resonating element. A sustaining amplifier stimulates the resonating element to maintain substantially continuous oscillations at one of its mechanical natural frequencies. A control circuitry monitors the resonator frequency, controls the temperature of the resonator substrate accordingly, and interprets a dew or frost point of a gaseous compound of interest.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes, among other things, a method. The method may include receiving, by a wireless communication device, an instruction to actuate a valve. The method may also include receiving a period of time. The method may also include applying energy from a battery to the valve for the period of time.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes, among other things, a method. The method may include receiving an instruction to actuate a valve. The method may also include receiving a first period of time. The method may also include applying energy to the valve for the first period of time. The method may also include comparing a first state of the valve with a state in the instruction. The method may also include determining a second period of time by increasing the first period of time. The method may also include applying energy to the valve for the second period of time. The method may also include determining that a second state of the valve matches the state in the instruction.

Abstract: A variable length sensor probe system for connection to a sensor well includes a housing adapted for connection to the proximate end of a sensor well; a sensor probe having a distal end for contacting the distal end of the sensor well and a proximate end extending into the housing; and an indexing device for interconnecting the housing and the proximate end of the sensor probe for setting the penetration of said sensor probe in the sensor well at one of a number of discrete positions and continuously urging the distal end of the sensor probe against the distal end of the sensor well.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a remote process sensor and signal transmitter including apparatus for configuring the sensor and transmitter to perform various functions. The transmitter includes a program and apparatus for cycling through the program and the system microprocessor to set into the transmitter various conditions including its temperature range of operation, one of many possible remote temperature sensors and other operating states. The program includes two portions each of which can be entered by a switch. Each portion of the program can be cycled through and as selected portions of the program are reached, a selected parameter can be set into the microprocessor as a permanent operating condition. The set operating conditions can be set or reset at any time by cycling through the program in accordance with the set protocol.