An introduction to the line of Sensofoil® membrane potentiometers.
What is Sensofoil®? In our last blog post, we answered the question, “What is a membrane potentiometer?” Today, we’re going to talk about Sensofoil®, the Hoffmann + Krippner brand of membrane potentiometers, and how it differs from others. The name...
What is a membrane potentiometer?
Potentiometers have long served as key components of electrical controls as well as position sensing. However, their size and expense make traditional potentiometers inappropriate for many applications, such as flat-screen touch input devices. As the name suggests,...
When cleaning rooms means dealing with dirty-minded guests, how do you keep hotel housekeepers safe?
“I was so scared,” Juana Melara, a housekeeper in Southern California, told The New York Times when recounting an incident where a guest pursued her from his room into the hallway with his genitals exposed. “The rooms were empty – there were a lot of...
New laws are coming to protect hotel cleaning staff; are hotels ready?
More and more municipalities and states are passing laws imposing new safety requirements on hotels to protect their workers. Similarly, hospitality unions are increasingly pressing for the distribution of panic buttons or other safety devices to be written into...