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Motivation

The RED-Systems Initiative's proposal is not merely academic. Rather, it is based on sound experience in establishing critical, real time, environmental monitoring networks using similar principles in Germany, France and Russia.

The engineers actually forming the RED-Systems Initiative have been fascinated by the enormous innovative potential, that would unfold after merging two top-technologies into one consistent engineering approach

# 1: micromachined silicon acceleration sensors, and

# 2: a radically new approach to digital radio communications

The first of both technologies is commercially available from several US companies in different qualities and at different price ranges. The intrinsic noise level, one of the most critical parameters, comes down to less than 0,01 %g (ptp) for the higher quality models. This figure would be sufficient to detect any seismic activity ten times lower in amplitude than the limit of human perception. Logically, micromachined silicon acceleration sensors are more than adequate for a dense strong motion network in an urban area.

The second technology has been thoroughly optimized to provide a robust vehicle for low-rate wide-range data collection in mission-critical environmental monitoring networks. Using massive DSP computing power, this fully digital radio technology operates close to the theoretical limits for data communication.

All of this highly complex radio design has been conducted by the same group of engineers who are now teaming-up for the RED-Systems Initiative - a dream-team to tackle the merger of key-technolgy #1 with key-technolgy #2. The people behind the RED-Systems Initiative are fully convinced that the amount of synergy generated in this way allows to create an extremely competitive product with a handful of unique features!

The question of the team´s motivation now may be translated into a simple phrase: