1. Organization

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2014

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1.  Organization

Sutron Corporation (the “Company”) was incorporated on December 30, 1975, under the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Company operates from its headquarters located in Sterling, Virginia. The Company has several branch offices located throughout the United States and a branch office in India.

 The Company is a leading provider of real-time data collection and control products, systems and applications software and professional services in the hydrological, meteorological, air quality and oceanic monitoring markets. We design, manufacture, market and sell products, systems, and software as well as provide services that enable government and commercial entities to monitor and collect hydrological, meteorological, air quality and oceanic data for the management of critical water resources, for early warning of potentially disastrous floods, storms or tsunamis, for the optimization of hydropower plants, emissions monitoring, for the supply of critical aviation information and for other environmental applications.  We provide real-time data collection and control products consisting primarily of dataloggers, satellite transmitters/loggers, water level and meteorological sensors and tide monitoring systems.  We provide turnkey integrated systems for hydrological, meteorological, air quality and oceanic networks and related services consisting of installation, training and maintenance of hydrological, meteorological and air quality networks.  We provide both systems and applications software that is used to provide data necessary for the management of vital resources.  Our customers include a diversified base of federal, state, local and foreign governments, engineering firms, universities, hydropower companies and aviation firms.