Core Focus
Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring
Interlink Technology Platform
Gas Detection Solutions
Advanced gas detection instrumentation and electrochemical sensing programs for safety, environmental monitoring, and OEM development.
Delivery Model
Custom Engineering + Product Integration
Multi-decade gas detection R&D and instrumentation platform. Acquired by Interlink Electronics in 2022.
Technology
A platform built around gas detection science and field deployment
This platform is best understood as the deployment layer of Interlink's gas sensing portfolio: a place where electrochemical sensor science, electronics, firmware, calibration, packaging, and application-specific engineering are brought together into finished systems.
Instead of centering this page on company management or corporate biography, the focus here is the technology base Interlink helped establish: portable and fixed gas instruments, nanotechnology-enabled sensing, printed electrochemical sensor development, and OEM-ready gas detection platforms.
Technology milestones
93
1993
Gas detection product development begins
KWJ was founded to develop practical gas detection products for industrial, environmental, and safety applications.
99
1999
Transducer Technology capabilities join the platform
The Transducer Technology merger brought nanotechnology-enabled sensing work and a deeper electrochemical sensor R&D base into the business.
08
2008
Ozone monitoring capability expands
The Eco Sensors acquisition added ozone monitoring instruments, controllers, and environmental deployment expertise.
12
2012
Printed electrochemical gas sensing scales further
The SPEC Sensors platform extended the portfolio into compact printed electrochemical gas sensors for wearables, consumer devices, and IoT systems.
22
2022
Acquired by Interlink Electronics
Interlink added KWJ and the broader gas sensing platform in 2022, linking sensor science to group-wide manufacturing and commercialization support.
Pioneering Work
What this platform helped push forward
Electrochemical dosimetry and practical personal gas monitoring
The KWJ platform traces into the earlier electrochemical sensing work of Dr. Joseph Stetter and Transducer Technology, including first-generation electrochemical dosimeters and compact personal gas detection programs that later informed wearable and portable products.
Printed and nanotechnology-enabled gas sensing
KWJ’s merged R&D base helped push printed and nanotechnology-enabled electrochemical gas sensors toward real productization, bridging lab-scale sensor science with deployable instruments and OEM modules.
Deployment-ready gas detection systems
Beyond sensor invention, KWJ’s distinguishing contribution is system translation: turning sensing chemistry into instruments, alerts, OEM modules, and calibration workflows that can be specified and used in the field.
Platform Strengths
From sensor architecture to deployed product
- Portable, fixed, inline, wireless, and wearable gas detection architectures
- Electrochemical sensing, nanotechnology-enabled sensor development, and OEM module design
- Characterization, compensation, calibration, and manufacturability planning
- Application-specific engineering support from concept through production transfer