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HP has developed an inertial sensing technology that enables a new class of ultrasensitive, low-power MEMS accelerometers that can deliver high-precision data capture at ultra-low frequencies. Integrating the devices within a complete system that encompasses numerous sensor types, networks, storage capabilities, and computation and analysis tools that monitor the environment, assets, and health and safety, enables a new level of awareness, revolutionizing communication between objects and people. HP is collaborating with Shell to develop a next-generation, land-based seismic acquisition system leveraging this technology.

The new sensing technology represents a breakthrough in nano sensing research and uses the fluidic MEMS technology codeveloped over the past 25 years by HP Labs - the company’s central research arm - and the company’s Imaging and Print Group. The technology is a key enabler of HP’s vision for a new information ecosystem, the Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE).