A fixed optic sensor system (200) comprising a sensor system (210), and electronic sub-system (205) and a communications means (215). The system can be used for detecting the presence of various sample (236) properties and in that regard has widespread application by leveraging off various miniaturized...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5946083?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5946083 - Fixed optic sensor system and distributed sensor network