With strong ties to Stanford, Acellent Technologies, Inc. designs and delivers advanced structural diagnostic systems. The company is developing advanced active diagnostic systems using built-in networks of actuators and sensors for real-time structural health monitoring. Potential users of Acellent's SMART technology include companies from aerospace and automotive companies, to civil structures, energy and utility companies and, within the public sector, defense, space, transportation and energy departments of state and federal governments. The firm's products are able to translate the condition of aging, degrading, and failing structures to an easy to understand metric on the health of the structure. Acellent Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures sensor network products that leverage its proprietary SMART Systems technologies to obtain solutions for real-time structural health monitoring. The firm's structural diagnostic systems and technology haswidespread applications and customers in many major industries.