We engineer your sensors.

About Us


smart microwave sensors GmbH has been working with industrial and automotive customers since its founding in 1997. We do not only develop commercial radar products, but have always been doing related scientific research work. A number of important patents and patent applications have been achieved.

Company
The company was founded in November 1997 by 
     Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Rohling and
     Dr.-Ing. Ralph Mende
as a spin-off of the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

Prof. Hermann Rohling is today Vice President of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) and head of the Communications Department at this University, while Dr. Ralph Mende is the Managing Director of smart microwave sensors GmbH.

Facts
30 employees, most of them scientists, Ph.D. graded or highly specialized engineers form the outstanding staff of smart microwave sensors company. We work in over 820m² offices and labs at the Panther Business Center Braunschweig, and another 200m² test field and production labs. The company is steadily growing year by year at a high double-digit growth rate.

Awards
2. Kooperationspreis des Landes Niedersachsen 2001
The state of Niedersachsen awarded us at the Hannover Messe 2001 in April for the very successful co-operation with the Technical University of Braunschweig.

Wolfgang-Martini-Preis 2000
The German Insitute of Navigation (DGON) awarded Dr. Ralph Mende at the International Radar Symposium October 2000 in Berlin for his work in automotive radar.

Partners
We co-operate with selected partners that provide us with hi-performance RF modules in case we do not build them ourselves.

Furthermore, close co-operations exist with the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, as well as with federal research institutes in the Braunschweig region.