Your information and communication tool

Besides the information posted by commercial companies and research institutes with respect to their activities or products, the platform also contains other informative portals to which registered members also can submit information:

News&Analyses

The 'news&analyses' portal covers business as well as technological news items which are relevant for the FO sensing community. Furthermore, this portal also seeks to promote the diffusion of market and technology oriented information without being too much product or company specific. The information is categorised using the following categories:

Industry highlights
e.g. standardisation news/governmental decisions related to the industry/new start-ups/application highlights.
Research highlights

e.g. new research projects/new patents or inventions/invitation to join research project / partner search/governmental news related to the research field.
Market insights

e.g. market information/technology impact/competing technology landscape.
Technology insights

e.g. technology education for non-specialists/insights in standards and standardisation activities/insight in potential application fields/technology realisations.

All registered partners have the possibility to submit news&analyses items via their log-in account after which the submitted information will become reviewed by the editorial board for publication.

Business Brief

The 'business brief portal' seeks to distribute company specific business information which is also recently published as a press release on the companies website:

e.g. Investments/Acquisitions/Alliances/joint ventures/Financial results/New start-ups/Company strategy changes/Company expansion plans (e.g. opening of new offices)/Large sales contracts/ Announcements of management changes/New product releases

All registered partners have the possibility to submit items for this portal via their log-in account. The information only contains a title and an external link to the press release on the companies website for reading the full text. Business brief items are not reviewed by the editorial board.

Events

All registered commercial companies and research institutes have the possibility to make free announcements of upcoming events which can be considered to be relevant for the fiber optic sensing field such as conferences, courses, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, ...

Free e-newsletter

In order to stay updated easily, a free e-newsletter will be send out periodically to all registered members. This e-newsletter will highlight some market and technology related items of the last period.