Once again, electronics firms feature highly in the Queen's Awards.
Cambridge-based smart metering specialist Sentec has been given an award for enterprise in recognition of its growth over the last three years, during which the company more than trebled its overseas earnings to £4.3m.
Sentec technology is now included in over five million - around half - of the smart electricity meters installed in the USA.
"Sentec's exporting success has been key to the business for many years," said Sentec financial director Adrian Towers. "It has the advantage that we are able continue to invest in our own research and development without having to wait for external funding, even in a difficult economic climate such as we see at the moment."
The firm just announced an agreement to licence its Mobius current sensor to National Grid subsidiary OnStream for the UK smart electric meter market.
Oxfordshire's Navtech Radar has also got an Enterprise award, based on its millimetre radar-based sensors which are used for security surveillance, industrial automation and traffic sensing.
"We are delighted to receive this award as recognition of the excellent work that has been put in over recent years. The Queen's Award is very highly recognised outside the UK and this will certainly help us to raise the awareness of our solutions both nationally and abroad," said Navtech co-founder and MD Philip Avery. "Radar is a fast growing emerging technology for outdoor sensing particularly in security & surveillance and Traffic applications."
"Innovations by the small company include a precision timing system to improve range accuracy, a novel radar beam pattern to improve coverage and detection in surveillance applications, and robust system electronics to ensure reliable and accurate operation in the harshest of environmental conditions," reads Navtech's citation.
The Queen Award for achievements for international trade include:
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, London, for submarine communications systems.
Applied Acoustic Engineering, Norfolk, for underwater acoustic position, tracking and survey equipment.
Chelton Limited, Buckinghamshire, for aircraft and ground antennas.
Dart Sensors, Devon, for electrochemical sensors.
Dynex Semiconductor, Lincoln, for high power semiconductors.
Imagination Technologies, Hertfordshire, for multimedia semiconductor intellectual property.
JDR Cable Systems, Cambridgeshire, for subsea power cables.
Latens Systems, Belfast, for Pay TV security software.
Moog Components, Berkshire, for motion control components.
Moog Insensys, Hampshire, for fibre-optic load measurement systems.
Naim Audio, Wiltshire, for high-end consumer electronics.
Pace plc, West Yorkshire, for digital TV technology.
Racal Acoustics, Middlesex, for military headsets and communicaton ancillaries.
Schrader Electronics, County Antrim, for tyre pressure monitoring systems.
Selex Galileo, Radar & Advanced Targeting Unit, Edinburgh, for airborne surveillance and fire control radars.
Sentec, Cambridgeshire, for smart metering systems.
Stannah Stairlifts, Hampshire, for stairlifts.
Vectric, Worcestershire, CNC software for craft industry machines.
The Queen's Awards for achievements in innovation include:
ATB Morley, West Yorkshire, high voltage electric motors.
Concateno, Oxfordshire, for automatic drug screening devices.
Danlers Limited, Wiltshire, electronic controls for lighting, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units.
Metaswitch Networks, Middlesex, for broadband telephony software.
Domo Limited, Hampshire, for wireless digital audio and video link technology for bomb disposal.
DuPont Microcircuit Materials, Bristol, for Solamet paste for contacts in solar cells.
Garford Farm Machinery, Lincolnshire, for vision-based guidance for crop weeder.
Integrated Display Systems, Tyne and Wear, for a belt tensioning system for electronic power assisted steering.
Malvern Instruments, Worcestershire, for a particle measuring instrument.
Navtech Radar, Oxfordshire, for radar based sensors.
Newtons4th Ltd, Leicestershire, for voltage, current and phase analysers.
Reeves Wireline Technologies, Leicestershire, for a range of measurement equipment to support surveys of oil and gas wells.
ThorpeGlen, Suffolk, for an electronic communications monitoring and tracking system.
Touch Bionics, Livingston, for the development of the i-LIMB Hand.