The Kistler Group has been awarded the contract for instrumentation of three crash centers for the Indian automobile industry. The client for this substantial deal worth almost twenty million Swiss francs is the autonomous project under Department of Heavy Industries – National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP). This means last year's acquisitions by the Business Unit Vehicles of the Kistler Group are already paying off.

KT Automotive provides a new sensor test device integrated into a Tablet PC. This system provides Bridge supplies for 2.5V, 5V and 10V at a max. sensor current of 40mA and a signal accuracy of 0.5%. The system is able to measure the total resistance of the sensor bridge as well as the sensor offset. It checks for shorts between each of the Excitation, Signal and Sense lines as well as