Chemical analyzer hits the road.

AuthorFoster, Sharon
PositionTech Talk - Travel IR - Brief Article

SensIR Technologies, of Danbury, Conn., has developed a compact, portable chemical analyzer, called the TravelIR. Alan Rein, the company's vice president, explained that, after a chemical spill, the analyzer can take a sample of the material and match it to an internal database of thousands of compounds. If it finds a match, the identity is displayed.

Current users include the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Drug Enforcement Agency; Agriculture Department; Argonne National Laboratory...

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