FT Technologies was founded in 1981 by Peter Elgar and Derek Cavendish-Pell. The business originally concentrated on defence based research projects. In 1986, Dr Savvas Kapartis joined the company after completing his BSc and PhD in Electronics at Surrey University.
In the 1990s there was a government requirement for a wind sensor for ballistic meteorology. The problem was, it had to have no moving parts and be strong enough to operate reliably on battlefield equipment.
At that time, conventional sonic anemometers relied on time of flight measurement. This meant they were large in size, with delicate arms that could easily be damaged.
Pondering the problem on his way into work one day, Savvas was sitting at a set of traffic lights when he suddenly had an idea. What if you were to resonate an acoustic wave inside a small cavity, and measure the phase shift of the moving air on the signal bouncing between the transducers? Then, he hypothesised, you could create a small, and therefore easily heated, wind sensor with no moving parts.
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