Colibrys – Smart sensing solutions

In the year 2004, Qinpex became the official Agent of COLIBRYS for China Market. COLIBRYS is a world-leading company active in the sector of standard and semi-custom MEMS based motion sensors.

Colibrys SA was officially created on January 1st, 2001 as an independent company spinning-off with some 90 employees and all relevant IPR from CSEM its mother company. Colibrys is active in the fields of Inertial sensing, Vibrating sensing, seismic sensing and tilt sensing.

MAIN PRODUCTS

MEMS GEOPHONE

The experience and know how inherited from our leading position in manufacturing of MEMS digital geophones for seismic imaging allows us to offer very low noise products dedicated to building, machine or structural monitoring as well as earthquake and seismology measurements. The SF1500 and SF2005 are unique products offering sub µg/?Hz noise levels for a measurement range up to ±4g as required by the above listed applications.

ACCELEROMETER

Colibrys offers various accelerometer products featuring long term bias stability, high degree of reliability and performance repeatability for different application. The flagship MS8000 product family is used in IMUs, AHRS, drilling application, Civilian and military UAVs. This product is offered in different ranges starting from ±2g up to ±100g. MS9000 has the same baseline performance as MS8000 but is offered in a smaller form factor facilitating its application where space is a concern and/or stress reduction related to mounting of the sensor is of utmost importance. MS9000 product family is offered in different ranges starting from ±2g up to ±200g.

IRIS is the newest family of high precision accelerometers from Colibrys. Currently they are offered as ±10g full range dedicated to the AHRS application featuring composite bias repeatability of better than 1.5mg and scale factor repeatability of better than 300 ppm and extremely low vibration rectification better than 65g/g². A ±3g version is also available dedicated to drilling applications including borehole survey and measurement while drilling. This product features composite one-year bias repeatability of better than 600µg and scale factor repeatability of 300 ppm. This product can be used in platform stabilization for antenna, radar, turret and camera platforms.

VARIABLE CAPACITANCE

Variable capacitance sensors can advantageously replace traditional piezo-resistive products in some specific market area. MEMS capacitive sensors produced by Colibrys can offer improved performances for numerous Airborne sensing applications (Flight vibration testing, Flutter testing, HUMS), Ground sensing applications (GVT, Modal testing, Automotive testing, eneral lab testing) or Monitoring & Control (Transportation, Train monitoring, Condition based monitoring, Low frequency machinery).

Markets

Colibrys products are specifically targeted for harsh environment applications and particularly used in the three market segments below:

Energy market
The main applications of Colibrys motion sensors are for the use in:

  • Sub-surface seismi
  • imaging for hydrocarbon (oil/gas) exploration
  • Down bore-hole drilling for petroleum production
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Military / Aerospace market
Colibrys motion sensors have a broad range of applications in the military aerospace market such as:

  • Inertial navigation and guidance of missiles and smart munitions
  • Inertial navigation in aircrafts or ground vehicles
  • Platform stabilization of communication platforms or fire control systems
  • Health Usage Monitoring of various military equipment
  • Unattended Ground surveillance (UGS)
  • Anti-vibration damping / control
Industrial markets
Colibrys motions sensors can be used in a variety of existing and emerging industrial and saftey critical applications such as:

  • Railway technologies (high speed tilt trains, comfort and safety monitoring systems)
  • Generic Instrumentation for crash and structural testing
  • Structural monitoring of large structures such as high rise buildings, dams, bridges, nuclear plants, airports, skyline, rail tracks, oil rigs or wind turbines