About TRM Sensors LLC

TRM Sensors LLC was organized in 2013 but our experience with leak detection goes back to the 1980’s.  Leak detection application are much the same as they were in the last century, but 21st century technology has made it possible to make better products at lower costs with much less capital outlay.   And the time to market for new ideas has dropped dramatically.

TRM Sensors is structured to move quickly.    New product ideas are prototyped and evaluated in weeks.   Ideas that work make their way to the market quickly.  Concepts that don’t achieve their objectives are dropped, just as quickly.   We don’t let a project get “too big to fail”.  Large corporations have a vested interest in the status quo; change is costly.  It’s easier to keep making the same thing especially when there is a large base of installed products.   When the stakes are high, big companies spend the bulk of their development time planning and defining just the right product before producing the first article.    TRM Sensors, on the other hand, can try 6 different ideas in 6 months and run with the ones that work.

Using that “fast turn” approach, TRM Sensor has developed a large number of products in a relatively short span of time.    TRM-DFS-3, developed in 2014,  does a better job of detecting indoor fuel leaks at a lower price than competitors.   TRM-CC, also developed in 2014, was a quick response to a customer request for Crude oil detection in well-head Cellars.  The sensor quickly evolved into a general purpose fuel spill sensor for outdoor containments and sumps that is more robust, more corrosion resistant and tolerates 5 times more storm water (without moving floats) than what was on the market when we started.    Another customer asked about underground tank monitoring  and TRM commercialized sensors that detect both fuel and ground water in a package small enough to fit into the space between walls of double wall tanks and pipe system.   Where there was a need for high ambient temperature water detection cables or very tiny sensor wires for water cooled electronic systems, TRM Sensors was able to conceptualize a solution, produce a prototype, test, evaluate and commercialize a new product much faster than would be possible in larger corporate environment.

All of our sensors qualify as “simple apparatus”  per IEC 60079-11:2011 and NFPA 70 – 2014 edition, article 504.  The sensors and probes are all passive devices.  There are no internal electronics or energy storage components.   All of the TRM sensors can be installed in hazardous areas when necessary.