Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Accounts Receivable and Concentration of Credit Risk (Details Textual)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) customer	Dec. 31, 2014 customer
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable \| $	$ 139,000
Bad debt expense percentage of revenues (percentage)	1.00%	1.00%
Accounts receivable, number of major customers (customers)	1	2
Accounts receivable, major customer (percentage)		29.00%
Revenue, number of major customer (customers)	1	1
Revenue, major customer (percentage)	14.00%	10.00%

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Entity-Wide Revenue, Number of Major Customer

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Number of Major Customers Accounting for More than Ten Percent of Accounts Receivable

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Percentage of Accounts Receivable Accounted for by Major Customer

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For an unclassified balance sheet, a valuation allowance for receivables due a company that are expected to be uncollectible.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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