The company's products are used chiefly in industrial manufacturing Setra Systems Inc. was a fully owned subsidiary of Fortive.

[1] Founded in 1967, Setra Systems, Inc. is a USA-based designer and manufacturer of pressure, humidity and current sensing products for the HVAC industry.

[2] Setra's range of products also cater to agricultural, medical, and semi-conductor industries apart from the existing OEM, barometric, HVAC/R, environmental, test and measurement, food and pharmaceutical industries.

[2] The company was founded by Y. T. Li and S. Y. Lee, former professors of engineering at MIT,[3] who co-developed the variable capacitance transduction principle, the force sensing technology which is the basis of Setra's products.

The engineering and research efforts of Setra have been put into the development of transmitters and transducers designed using the variable capacitive transduction principle.