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Smart Building Automation: LUFFT launches new compact Weather Sensor WS10
Today the Fellbach sensor manufacturer Lufft announces the official launch of the WS10. The new all-in-one weather sensor is primarily used to monitor building automation, smart city and smart home applications as well as solar power systems.

August 29, 2018

Suitable for every climate: Lufft launches new CHM8k cloud height sensor
The product innovation Lufft CHM8k complements the ceilometer family of the South German metrology specialist and is suitable for applications in which low-lying measurement ranges in up to eight kilometers are in focus.

February 21, 2018

Every second counts: The maintenance free WS100 measures precipitation from the first drop
Especially in the cold and wet season, it is vital that operational decisions can be made and implemented within a few seconds. This is especially true for meteorological data evaluations for aviation and road traffic.

October 10, 2017

Reinforced heating: The new VENTUS-X from Lufft for extreme locations
Summer is drawing to an end and the cold season is approaching. Reason enough for the Lufft sensor company to introduce an upgraded version of the VENTUS ultrasonic wind sensor - the VENTUS-X.

August 31, 2017

LUFFT Weather Sensor on "Willi Wien Tower" of the German National Metrology Institute
The environmental sensor manufacturer Lufft from South Germany supplied the amateur radio interest group DL0PTB located in the German Metrology Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig with a professional weather sensor.

August 8, 2017

Lufft brings SHM31 laser-based snow depth sensor onto the market
A new measuring tool for meteorological services, airports, road maintenance depots, and ski resorts, as well as for the generation of renewable energy, is now available from Lufft: the SHM31 measures snow depths of up to 15 metres in mere seconds.

May 24, 2017

Lufft Launches Vs20k Sensor To Measure Visibility Up To 20 Km
Measurement technology manufacturer Lufft announced the official launch of the VS20k.

May 5, 2017

Lufft Introduces New Non-Invasive Road Weather Sensor For Smart Traffic Applications
After a year of development work, a new generation of Lufft stationary street weather sensors is now ready. The StaRWIS, which is installed at a measuring distance of 5.5 meters above the road, is based on an award-winning and innovative LED technology.

April 12, 2017

Sensor Manufacturer Lufft Ranks Among The Top 100 Companies
Fellbach company joins Germany's innovation elite. Honored by TOP 100 mentor Ranga Yogeshwar.

June 28, 2016

MARWIS Product Film recognized with international prizes
For all those who haven’t watched the film about the advantages of the mobile road sensor MARWIS yet, it’s now time the latest: A few days ago, two international awards went to the creators of the MARWIS film.

May 27, 2016

Lufft introduces new visibility sensor VS2k and launches MARWIS 2.0
Two innovations are to supplement the product portfolio of G. Lufft, the sensor manufacturer based at Fellbach. The new VS2k-UMB visibility sensor will replace the VS20-UMB optical sensor from the middle of May.

April 28, 2016

The Reference is coming – First Presentation of a new class of Weather Sensor
Just assuming there's a new weather sensor, which is so precise that a normal calibration laboratory isn't able to measure the accuracy. Imagine there's an environmental sensor, which could serve as the reference for all other environmental sensors.

January 12, 2016

Lufft wins innovation award of Baden-Württemberg
The measurement and control technology company Lufft was selected as one winner of the "Dr. Rudolf Eberle Prize" at "Haus der Wirtschaft" in Stuttgart.

November 17, 2015

As fast as lightning: The new weather sensor with lightning detection
Up to now, there was little evidence to prove that damage or fires were caused by lightning. Lightning strikes cannot only cause dangerous fires but can also give rise to great financial losses in the case of surge damage.

October 15, 2015

Ultrasonic wind sensors for the DWD's maritime monitoring network come from Lufft
In a call for bids for the renewal and extension of ultrasonic wind sensors in the maritime monitoring network of the German Weather Service, the ultrasonic wind sensor Ventus from the Fellbach-based manufacturer of environmental measuring equipment won t

May 4, 2015

Lufft wins INDUSTRIEPREIS 2015 with mobile sensor MARWIS
As part of the German award INDUSTRIEPREIS 2015 Lufft has been elected as overall winner at the start of the industry trade fair HANNOVER MESSE. The mobile road sensor MARWIS prevailed in the category "Optical Technologies".

April 21, 2015

Lufft delivers more than 100 Ceilometers to German Weather Service (DWD)
The DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst meaning German Weather Service) is convinced, that a large number of cloud height sensors CHM 15k from the company G. Lufft will be used in the future.

March 13, 2015

Lufft Compact weather sensor with Secondary Standard to revolutionize PV-Monitoring
As of now the Compact weather sensor from Lufft WS510-UMB, equipped with a Kipp & Zonen PyrANometer of the secondary standards, unites the precision of a variety of meteorological individual sensors in a single all-in-one device for the first time.

March 9, 2015

Lufft among the finalists for the Prism Award 2015
At this year's Prism Award 2015 the measurement and control technology company Lufft from Fellbach, Germany was among the last three nominations in the category of "Detectors and Sensors".

February 16, 2015

LUFFT IS THE AUDIENCE FAVORITE AT GLOBALCONNECT-AWARD 2014
In the evening on November 4th, 2014 the measurement and control technology company G. Lufft GmbH from Fellbach/Germany, got the audience award at GlobalConnect-Awards during a solemn prize giving ceremony.

November 13, 2014