On the 1st of June, 2016, in presence of half a dozen heads of state and government, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is officially opened. More than 2000 individuals from the army, police, federal government, Swiss Federal Railways, AlpTransit Gotthard (ATG) and private companies are in action during the festivities, to greet a public of thousands of passionate visitors and journalists from over 20 nations.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel consists of two 57-kilometers-long single-track tubes. Including all cross-passages, access tunnels and shafts, the total length of the tunnel system is over 152 km. It links the north portal at Erstfeld with the south portal at Bodio. With a rock overburden of up to 2300 meters, the Gotthard Base Tunnel is not only the world's longest, but also the world's deepest, railway tunnel constructed to date.
MEET Ltd congratulates all the parties that have been involved in this great accomplishment.
MEET proudly provided its small but nevertheless important contribution to the success of this undertaking, by equipping various concrete production plants involved in the tunnel construction with its Wavetester™ contactless moisture sensors and therefore ensuring an optimal product quality and reliability.
Click here to download the interview to the Managing Director of MEET Ltd, which appeared on the Corriere del Ticino newspaper's special supplement of the 30th of May, 2016, in occasion of the opening ceremony (pdf, 1.8 MB, in italian).
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Article: Innovative Sensorik zur Produktion von umweltfreundlichen Baustoffen
The renowned industry magazine Aktuelle Technik has published the article "Innovative Sensorik zur Produktion von umweltfreundlichen Baustoffen" about the challenging and Swiss first application of non-contacting moisture sensors for the real time monitoring of rinsing slurries in one the most advanced building material production plants of Switzerland. This difficult task was successfully mastered by MEET's Wavetester™ technology, thanks to some of its key properties:
accuracy
requiring no physical contact with the material
capability to measure moisture contents beyond 50% H2O
Click here to download the article (pdf, 200 kB, in german).
SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, is featuring the two-day "Food for Brain" Event at the Expo 2015's Swiss Pavillon. Here, researchers and industrial partners are displaying successful research projects around the theme of food quality and food production. Due to its long-standing partnership with SUPSI and the reliable presence of its technology in the food industry, MEET Ltd is also part of this event.
Today, MEET begins shipping an enhanced version of its successful USBKey device. Called USBKey Pro, the new product extends the original USBKey with wireless capabilities. All the existing features and the mechanical dimensions are maintained, but in addition to handling wired input signals (typically connected to electromechanical switches) it can now also respond to wireless signals transmitted by compatible RadioButtons and RadioSensors, also available from MEET.
The total number of inputs that can be translated to any keyboard, mouse or phantom command is therefore extended from originally 10 to 48 (10 wired + 38 wireless).
This is an example of MEET's custom engineering achievements, leading to solutions that are generally considered unfeasible just before.
In this project, commissioned by a private customer, MEET was entrusted to develop a fully autarchic - solar powered - boat house automation system. Key feature was a powered windlass capable of hoisting a motor boat weighting 3 tons out of the water. Furthermore, a lakeside motorized gate, with remote control was part of the project.
