Shaking the future means to be first and to create a revolutionary technological change that provides significant benefits to our customers.
As a reward, Rosemount Tank Radar AB engineers can claim many world’s first. Some of these are listed here:

• The world’s first radar level gauge in 1973, tried on the tanker Sea Scout
  
  
• First serial delivery of marine systems begins in 1975, and first commissioned system sails in 1976
  
  
• Mining radar developed and tested in 1978
  
  
• Wave radar for measuring wave height in the ocean developed in 1981
  
  
• Steel radar for measuring levels in blast furnaces was introduced in 1982. In 1991 came an upgraded version for measuring profiles across a blast furnace.
  
  
• The world’s first radar level gauge for land-based applications 1984-1985
  
  
• The first LPG system was installed in 1987 at a BP plant.
  
  
• The first radar with dual-port technology and circular polarization (TRL/2), introduced in 1992
  
  
• The world’s first radar level gauge for LNG applications: storage tanks in 1993, marine vessels in 1997.
  
  
• The world’s first Loop powered guided wave radar with interface measuring capability "Rosemount 3300", introduced in 2002. Today more than 10 000 units are installed world-wide.
  
  
• The 3-in-1 break-through that for the first time provides a cost effective solution that integrates level radar, high-level alarm and overfill alarm in one unit. Introduced in 2003
  
  
• The first dual-port pulsed radar with circular polarization for process applications "Rosemount 5400", introduced in 2005
  
  

More revolutionary innovations are currently being developed at Rosemount Tank Radar AB and will be added to the list as they become available in the market.

Being a pioneer and world leader means setting industry standards.
At Rosemount Tank Radar AB we take pride in carefully researching and developing different concepts and then selecting and refining the best for introduction in the field. The best confirmation of our leadership is when other companies follow our designs or solutions in their products by licensing the technology we have invested to develop.

A number of important standard-setting solutions are listed below:

• The Radar Level Gauge itself. Our first radar gauging patents filed in 1973
  
  
• Measuring in still-pipes: patent from 1984
  
  
• Highly robust parabolic antenna
  
  
• 2-wire radar gauging: patent from 1997
  
  

As an industry and technology leader we cooperate with leading research establishments, and are also active in several standard-setting organizations that affect the future of radar-based tank gauging and the development of tank monitoring systems. Examples of such standard-setting organizations include the International Standards Organization (ISO), European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI), OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) as well as Fieldbus Foundation, Hart Foundation, etc.

Rosemount Tank Radar AB is often recognized for its outstanding innovations. Some examples of awards received in recent years include:

• 2007 Readers Choice Awards for Contacting Radar (Rosemount 3300)
  
  
• 2007 Readers Choice Awards for Inventory Grade Level Gauges (TankRadar Rex)
  
  
• 2007 Readers Choice Awards for Non-contact Radar
  
  
• 2006 The Emerson Technology Award for best new product and technology within Emerson Electric Corporation
  
  
• 2005 The Frost and Sullivan Technology of the Year Award
  
  
• 16 new patents related to Radar level gauging systems in 2004-2005
  
  

We are equally proud of all these awards since they are given by different organizations that look at our results from many different angles.

• The Readers Choice Award is given in several categories by Control Magazine to the company that process industry professionals feel offers the best technologies and best meet their needs.
  
  
• The Emerson Technology Award is given to the Emerson division that has developed the best new product and technology within all of Emerson. Some factors considered are: innovative step, market leadership and a number of other technology and business parameters.
  
  
• The Frost and Sullivan Technology of the Year Award is presented each year by Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in growth consulting, to a company that has innovated and achieved a leading position in its market.
  
  

In the early 1970s, Olle Edvardsson, Rosemount Tank Radar AB, invented radar level gauging. The radar and signal processing technology that enabled radar level gauging came out of Saab’s missile division in Linköping. Since then, Rosemount Tank Radar AB has developed new technology as well as several generations of new radar level gauges for both marine and land-based applications.

Today the team has grown from a few engineers in Linköping to a global organization with its members located in several places around the world. A majority of our engineers holds a graduate degree (MSc, PhD) in engineering physics, electrical engineering, computer science, or mechanical engineering.