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Alessandro Donati

Kayser Italia SRL

Piazza 185º R. A. Folgore,

2/3 – 57128 Livorno

Italia 

www.kayser.it

T.: +39 0586 876111

Fax.: +39 0586 876208

a.donati@kayser.it

 

Kayser is a small, independent system engineering company. Main area of business is in the study, design, manufacturing, integration and testing of systems for space, advanced industrial research and environmental monitoring. The broad background of its staff includes expertise in physics, computer science, aeronautics, electronics, optics. In the environmental monitoring field, the company gained a strong experience in the remote sensing techniques for atmospheric pollution monitoring, especially on the DOAS, FTIR and LIDAR techniques. Additionally, the company is currently involved in the European R&D project EMECAP in the framework of which the company acts as designer and developer of a portable atmospheric mercury mini-analyzer. The company know-how in the environmental monitoring field is completed by a strong experience in field measurement campaigns and feasibility studies for the application of measurement techniques.

Kayser Italia is a small, independent system engineering company. It has been incorporated in 1986; since 1995 the company is 100% Italian property.

Main area of business is in the study, design, manufacturing, integration and testing of HW and SW systems and subsystems for space application, environmental monitoring and advanced industrial research.

The broad background of its staff, including expertise in physics, computer science, aeronautics, electronics, optics and a deep know-how gained during many challenging projects have contributed to the continuous growth and success of the company. The company is located in Livorno, Toscana, Italy, 20 Km south of Pisa, in a building of 1500 m².

The personnel contributes to the success of the company in different areas in the following competencies: system engineering, electronics design of analogue, digital and power circuits, electronic design with FPGA and microprocessors, firmware and software, communications (PCM telemetry, RF links, etc.), implementation of LAN and WAN, mechanical and thermal design, product assurance and quality control.

Electronic laboratory instrumentation is periodically calibrated and includes: analogue / digital oscilloscopes, multimeters, frequency meters, logic analysers, spectrum analysers, data acquisition systems, signal conditioners, power supplies, sensors, calibrators. Development tools for microprocessors and FPGA are extensively used.

Manufacturing and testing of PCBs and harness is in accordance with ESA PSS standards. Periodic certification for manufacturing personnel and for P.A. inspector is maintained regularly. The company is certified ISO 9000.

Equipment includes: more then 30 LAN connected PCs, a server dedicated as supervisor of the ESA FOTONET WAN and an Internet server dedicated to the EU Telecities project. Many workstations dedicated to CAE, CAD, CAM, ATE. Software includes: Design software, Programming languages, Office automation, Internally developed software.

Industrial applications: Power plants, Car, Railway, Aircraft, Military. Environmental control and monitoring applications: Development of optical technologies for pollution monitoring, Geomagnetic surveillance of sea and land. Space applications : Microsatellites, Microgravity experiments, Mission and operations, Electronic Ground Support Equipment.

The company has matured experience both as prime contractor and subcontractor for space projects. Actually it has a record of 14 space flights with 8 different payloads and most of them fall into the Life Science (i.e. incubators for biological samples).

The company has matured experience both as prime contractor and associate contractor to major European projects in various sectors.

CV of the Key Proposer Alessandro Donati  

Alessandro Donati KAYSER ITALIA Responsible for Industrial Market achieved the Doctor Degree in Computer Science at University of Pisa in 1987 and the Post Doctor Specialization in Optics at University of Firenze in 1987.

Previous experiences: design and development of a relational data-base at Italian Ministry of Defence, Software engineer at IN.TE.S.A. SpA. – Torino designing and developing transmission software procedures on the Italian IBM network, Sales officer of computer integrated solutions et BULL HN Information Systems Italia SpA.

Kayser Italia R&D Experiences: project manager of many European and national research and development projects, among them: SPOT, VEMIA, MARIS, EQUALITY, EXPERTISE, MOPI, MICROTRANS, LAPMI, EMECAP. Detailed experience maturated in the development of opto-electronic systems for atmospheric remote sensing systems, especially based on FTIR, DOAS and LIDAR techniques.

Publications

 [Kayser1] E. Simeone, A. Donati - Kayser Italia, S.r.l. Livorno,E. Simeone, A. Donati - Kayser Italia, S.r.l. Livorno: "Signal optimization, noise reduction and systematic error compensation methods in long-path DOAS measurements",  SPIE - EUROPTO98, "Remote Sensing” session, Barcelona - September 1998. Ref. Paper 3493-21

[Kayser2] N. Beverini1,3, O. Faggioni2,3, C. Carmisciano3, E. Alzetta1, E. Maccioni1, M. Francesconi1, A. Donati4, E.  Simeone4, F. Strumia1: "A project for a new alkali vapour magnetometer, optically pumped by a diode laser", Annali di Geofisica , Vol. 41, N. 3, August 1998

[Kayser3] E. Simeone, A. Donati - Kayser Italia, S.r.l. Livorno:  “SPOT: Innovazioni tecnologiche sulla tecnica DOAS per misure su lungo percorso” Giornate di Studio “Progettare la qualita’ dell’aria”, Lipari (ME), 25-26-27 Settembre 1997.

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