MicroStrain Inc, a leading developer and manufacturer of microminiature sensors and advanced wireless systems, announced enhanced integration of its G-Link® and SG-Link® sensor products with National Instruments' LabVIEW graphical system design software.

This integration allows MicroStrain customers including engineers, universities and manufacturers to rapidly create and customize data acquisition applications using LabVIEW. "We are committed to open architecture and offer free software developer kits throughout our sensor range. This latest integration further expands the number of our sensors that can seamlessly connect to LabVIEW to facilitate data acquisition, graphical display, analysis and data storage," said Steven Arms, President of MicroStrain.

MicroStrain is particularly known for its innovations in very small, durable sensors with embedded microprocessors. The product range covers displacement, inertial and wireless, with the recent addition of energy harvesting, an area that MicroStrain has made great inroads with the work undertaken for the US Navy in helicopter structural health monitoring. These innovations are now being added to the commercial product range.

"Integrating with MicroStrain's award-winning sensors enables LabVIEW users to develop wireless acceleration and strain systems within the same software environment that engineers and scientists are using today for wired measurement systems," said Robert Jackson, Senior Product Manager in Product Partner Development at National Instruments.