Sensors

Face Masks with Wearable Sensors

Imperial researchers have embedded new low-cost sensors that monitor breathing, heart rate, and ammonia into t-shirts and face masks. Potential applications range from monitoring exercise,...

Monitoring Tumor Size with New Wearable Device

Engineers at Stanford University have created a small, autonomous device with a stretchable and flexible sensor that can be adhered to the skin to...

New Improved Ultrasensitive Quantum Sensors

Usually, a defect in a diamond is a bad thing. But for engineers, miniscule blips in a diamond's otherwise stiff crystal structure are paving...

How to Use High Accuracy Digital Temperature Sensors in Health Monitoring Wearables

Accurate digital temperature measurements are important in a range of applications including wearables, medical monitoring devices, health and fitness trackers, cold chain and environmental...

3 Tips to Optimize Data Reliability with Sensors in Real-time Control Systems

Real-time control is the ability of a closed-loop system to gather data, process that data, and update the system within a defined time window....

Autonomous Vehicle and Complex Traffic Solutions

If autonomous vehicles are ever going to achieve widespread adoption, we need to know they are capable of navigating complex traffic situations, such as...

Microchip PIC16F18x MCUs Optimized for Sensor Node Applications

Mouser Electronics, Inc., is now stocking the PIC16F18015/25/44/45 and the PIC16F18126/46 families of microcontrollers from Microchip Technology. Specifically designed for developers requiring an 8-bit...

2nd-Generation Multi-Zone Direct Time-of-Flight Sensor from STMicroelectronics uses Less Energy and can Range 2X as...

STMicroelectronics has announced its newest FlightSense Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging sensor for smart-phone camera management and augmented/virtual reality. With significant enhancements to many key components, ST’s latest ToF...

Sensor Fusion Comes of Age

Over time, sensors have morphed from simple analog and mechanical constructs to chip-based digital devices that connect to a machine to monitor the machine’s...

STMicroelectronics Releases First Automotive IMU with Embedded Machine Learning

STMicroelectronics’ ASM330LHHX inertial measurement unit (IMU) moves smart driving another step closer to high levels of automation with its machine-learning (ML) core. The ML core enables...

Sweating on Command with Artificial Skin

Following the breakthrough with their first sweating artificial skin two years ago, Danqing Liu's multidisciplinary team hasn't been sitting still. Their goal: artificial skin...

Ameliorating Image Sensors for Machine Vision

Image sensors measure light intensity, but the angle, spectrum, and other aspects of light must also be extracted to significantly advance machine vision. the University...

Biochemical Sensor to Track Health Status Through Sweat

Researchers have successfully tested a device that may one day use the chemical biomarkers in sweat to detect changes in a person's health. The...

Ideating Energy Efficient, Wireless Charging Roads

Wireless charging roads equipped with energy storage systems are promising electric vehicles sbyvirtue of their substantial advantages in time-saving and reduced pressure on the...

World’s First Industrial Grade 3D Ultrasonic Collision Avoidance Sensor

The Munich-based high-tech startup Toposens is announcing the market launch of its first commercial Toposens 3D COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM for mobile robots based on the proprietary Toposens...

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