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Segment Reporting | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Reporting | NOTE 10—SEGMENT REPORTING The Company currently operates in three reportable operating segments:
| ● | Energy & Security Sonar Solutions. The Company provides sonar and acoustic related solutions for energy, defense and commercial markets with a focus on underwater site security for strategic energy installations and other advanced acoustic systems and real-time embedded hardware and software development and production through its DSIT Solutions Ltd. (“DSIT”) subsidiary.
| ● | Smart Grid Distribution Automation. These products and services are provided by the Company’s GridSenseTM subsidiaries (GridSense Inc. in the United States and GridSense Pty Ltd. and CHK GridSense Pty Ltd. in Australia - collectively “GridSense”) which develop, market and sell remote monitoring and control systems to electric utilities and industrial facilities worldwide.
| ● | Machine-to-Machine Critical Asset Monitoring & Control (“M2M”). The M2M segment provides wireless remote monitoring and control systems and services for critical assets as well as Internet of Things applications. These activities are performed through the Company’s OmniMetrix subsidiary.
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 as well as pipeline monitoring activities in the Company’s OmniMetrix subsidiary (for remote monitoring of cathodic protection systems on gas pipelines for gas utilities and pipeline companies) that do not meet the quantitative thresholds under applicable accounting principles.
|  | Energy& Security Sonar Solutions |  |  | GridSense |  |  | M2M |  |  | Other |  |  | Total |
Three months ended March 31, 2015 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues from external customers |  | $ | 2,660 |  |  | $ | 908 |  |  | $ | 553 |  |  | $ | 497 |  |  | $ | 4,618 |
Intersegment revenues |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Segment gross profit |  |  | 605 |  |  |  | 277 |  |  |  | 340 |  |  |  | 297 |  |  |  | 1,519 |
Depreciation and amortization |  |  | 45 |  |  |  | 57 |  |  |  | 18 |  |  |  | 11 |  |  |  | 131 |
Segment net income (loss) before income taxes |  |  | (294 | ) |  |  | (325 | ) |  |  | (278 | ) |  |  | 105 |  |  |  | (792 | )
Three months ended March 31, 2014 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues from external customers |  | $ | 2,515 |  |  | $ | 963 |  |  | $ | 508 |  |  | $ | 468 |  |  | $ | 4,454 |
Intersegment revenues |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Segment gross profit (loss) |  |  | 686 |  |  |  | 185 |  |  |  | 312 |  |  |  | 247 |  |  |  | 1,430 |
Depreciation and amortization |  |  | 71 |  |  |  | 65 |  |  |  | 17 |  |  |  | 14 |  |  |  | 167 |
Segment net loss before income taxes |  |  | (208 | ) |  |  | (973 | ) |  |  | (403 | ) |  |  | (21 | ) |  |  | (1,605 | )
Reconciliation of Segment Income (Loss) to Consolidated Net Loss Before Income Taxes
|  | Three months ended March 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2015 |
Total net loss before income taxes for reportable segments |  | $ | (1,584 | ) |  | $ | (897 | )
Other operational segment net income (loss) before income taxes |  |  | (21 | ) |  |  | 105 |
Total segment net loss before income taxes |  |  | (1,605 | ) |  |  | (792 | )
Unallocated cost of corporate headquarters* |  |  | (1,043 | ) |  |  | (1,033 | )
Unallocated benefit (cost) of DSIT headquarters |  |  | (26 | ) |  |  | 10 |
Consolidated loss before income taxes |  | $ | (2,674 | ) |  | $ | (1,815 | )
* Includes stock compensation expense of $310 and $208 for the three month periods ended March 31, 2014 and 2015, 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=51669610&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 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 3: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 4: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8538-108599 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=51669610&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 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 7: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 8: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 9: 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=51669610&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 10: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 11: 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=51669610&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 12: 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=51669610&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 13: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 14: 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=51669610&loc=d3e8595-108599 + Details
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