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CSI:  Crime Scene Instrumentation.......

Get a closer look at some of the instrumentation used in the popular CBS television show.  Some of the high tech stuff you see on TV is actually the equipment you need for your next environmental clean-up.  Each month we examine another piece of instrumentation you might have seen on the CBS hit television show CSI.

Season 2
Episode #026  Bully For You

When a teenage boy is found dead in the boy's bathroom, CSI goes back to school to identify the schoolmate responsible for the murder.

Crime Scene Instrumentation:  "E-Nose" or electronic nose (AKA Cyranose 320).

Cyranose 320™. Technically, an electronic human nose marketed by Cyrano Science in Pasadena, California.  This handheld electronic odor detector can digitally analyze a wide range of smells in just 10 seconds. It's commonly used to detect spoilage at food plants, detect hazardous chemicals, and test perfumes. It's also being used in forensic applications as well. The Cyranose 320 contains 32 olfactory sensor elements and is easy to use by just pressing a button. A ceramic chip does the sniffing, and a 32-bit Hitachi SH4 microprocessor brain runs the software to analyze the pattern. It's got 256K of RAM, an analog output and input, and digital I/O ports.  Click Cyranose-320 for more information