<p>A current trend in the development of the applied
measuring techniques is the design of integrated analytical systems on a chip,
in particular, labs on a chip based on various physical principles of the
substance analysis. Recently, the term "lab-on-a-chip" implied
analytical microsystems, requiring macro-scopic readers for the data obtained,
which strongly limited the possibilities of their introduction into the field
studies and routine analytical measure-ments. However, a progress in the design
of telemetric labs on a chip, in-cluding those capable of broadcasting the
analytical signal to the receivers with positional sensitivity provided by the
use of the labeled counting cham-bers, made it possible to use such devices
beyond the scientific laboratories: in the field practice or in monitoring of
the natural systems and artificial structures. This can be applied not only to
the chemical and biological field measurements, but also to the mechanics, in
particular, to geomechanics or soil mechanics. This work briefly considers the
results obtained in the Rus-sian laboratory of the second author during the
period up to 2011-2013, which have not been published earlier due to the
know-how restrictions.</p>
<p>A current trend in the development of the applied
measuring techniques is the design of integrated analytical systems on a chip,
in particular, labs on a chip based on various physical principles of the
substance analysis. Recently, the term "lab-on-a-chip" implied
analytical microsystems, requiring macro-scopic readers for the data obtained,
which strongly limited the possibilities of their introduction into the field
studies and routine analytical measure-ments. However, a progress in the design
of telemetric labs on a chip, in-cluding those capable of broadcasting the
analytical signal to the receivers with positional sensitivity provided by the
use of the labeled counting cham-bers, made it possible to use such devices
beyond the scientific laboratories: in the field practice or in monitoring of
the natural systems and artificial structures. This can be applied not only to
the chemical and biological field measurements, but also to the mechanics, in
particular, to geomechanics or soil mechanics. This work briefly considers the
results obtained in the Rus-sian laboratory of the second author during the
period up to 2011-2013, which have not been published earlier due to the
know-how restrictions.</p>
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