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SEGMENT REPORTING | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
SEGMENT REPORTING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [Abstract] |
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block] | SEGMENT REPORTING The Company currently operates in four reportable operating segments:
(1) | The Company's Energy & Security Sonar Solutions segment is focused on sonar and acoustic related solutions for energy, defense and commercial markets and includes other real-time and embedded hardware & software development and production. Energy & Security Sonar Solutions activities are provided through the Company’s DSIT Solutions Ltd. subsidiary.
(2) | The Company’s GridSense segment provides Smart Grid Distribution Automation products and services through its GridSense subsidiaries.
(3) | The Company’s USSI segment's focus is to develop and produce fiber optic sensing systems for the energy and security markets. These activities are performed through the Company's USSI subsidiary.
(4) | The Company's Power Generation Monitoring segment provides products and services which deliver critical, real-time machine information to customers, while its Smart Service™ software provides remote diagnostics that give users real control over their equipment. These activities are performed through the Company's OmniMetrix subsidiary. As these activities were acquired in February 2012, there are only partial comparative results reported for these activities for the three month period ended March 31, 2012.
Other operations include certain IT activities (protocol management software for cancer patients and billing software) and outsourced consulting activities performed by the Company's DSIT subsidiary and Cathodic Protection activities in the Company's OmniMetrix subsidiary) that do not meet the quantitative thresholds under applicable accounting principles.
|  | Energy & Security Sonar Solutions |  | GridSense |  | USSI |  | Power Generation Monitoring |  | Other |  | Total
Three months ended March 31, 2013 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues from external customers |  | $ | 3,046 |  |  | $ | 1,543 |  |  | $ | 325 |  |  | $ | 396 |  |  | $ | 406 |  |  | $ | 5,716 |
Intersegment revenues |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 39 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 39 |
Segment gross profit (loss) |  | 1,222 |  |  | 661 |  |  | (168 | ) |  | 236 |  |  | 174 |  |  | 2,125 |
Depreciation and amortization |  | 57 |  |  | 104 |  |  | 84 |  |  | 88 |  |  | 40 |  |  | 373 |
Stock compensation expense |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 34 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 34 |
Segment net income (loss) before income taxes |  | 252 |  |  | (1,147 | ) |  | (1,851 | ) |  | (381 | ) |  | 12 |  |  | (3,115 | )
Three months ended March 31, 2012 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues from external customers |  | $ | 2,763 |  |  | $ | 918 |  |  | $ | 121 |  |  | $ | 85 |  |  | $ | 296 |  |  | $ | 4,183 |
Intersegment revenues |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Segment gross profit (loss) |  | 960 |  |  | 344 |  |  | (211 | ) |  | 40 |  |  | 67 |  |  | 1,200 |
Depreciation and amortization |  | 58 |  |  | 96 |  |  | 70 |  |  | 43 |  |  | 25 |  |  | 292 |
Stock compensation expense |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Segment net income (loss) before income taxes |  | 160 |  |  | (1,199 | ) |  | (1,715 | ) |  | (15 | ) |  | (67 | ) |  | (2,836 | )
Reconciliation of Segment Income (Loss) to Consolidated Net Loss
|  | Three months ended March 31,
|  | 2012 |  | 2013
Total net loss before income taxes for reportable segments |  | $ | (2,769 | ) |  | $ | (3,127 | )
Other operational segment net income (loss) before income taxes |  | (67 | ) |  | 12 |
Total segment net loss before income taxes |  | (2,836 | ) |  | (3,115 | )
Unallocated cost of corporate headquarters* |  | (1,460 | ) |  | (1,392 | )
Unallocated cost of DSIT and OmniMetrix headquarters |  | (74 | ) |  | (611 | )
Consolidated loss before income taxes |  | $ | (4,370 | ) |  | $ | (5,118 | )
* Includes stock compensation expense of $142 and $247 for the three month periods ending March 31, 2012 and 2013, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 131 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 15: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 + Details
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