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Kayser Italia is a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), independent Italian system engineering company incorporated in 1986 and based in Livorno,Italy.

History
Kayser Italia was funded in 1986 as part of the german group headed by Kayser-Threde. Since 1995 the property became fully italian and owned by the Zolesi's family. The company started developing and integrating high speed data acquisition systems for demanding operating environments as car crash tests and high speed trains. Soon started partecipating to the development of space facilities and 1992 developed the on-board electronics of the BIOPAN experiment funded by the European Space Agency that flew outisde the russian Bion and Foton space satellites. In the next years, Kayser Italia partecipate to the ESA BIOBOX project, a biological incubator that flew in different russian Foton missions and, finally, on board the space shuttle STS-107.

In 2005 the company develops the Hand Posture Analyzer, an instrument used to analyze the motor coordination and muscular fatigue of the astronauts' hand and forearm on board the International Space Station. Among the users, Ed Lu,Mike Foale,Roberto Vittori and Paolo Nespoli.

Between 2000 and 2007 develops ELITE-S2, an instrument to monitor in 3D the movements of the astronauts. ELITE-S2 was transported on board the ISS with the STS-118 and is still operative.

During the years, the company has developed many scientific payloads for different research areas as physical science, human research and, in particular, life sciences (biology and physiology).