DunAn Sensing has announced here at the Sensors Midwest, the availability of its MP Series of harsh media compatible pressure transducers. The MP series uses DunAn Sensing’s proprietary DURAsenseâ unique packaging and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) pressure sensor integration strategy with a hermetically sealed pressure fitting at a low cost while eliminating the troublesome and highly […]
How fast can a MEMS pressure sensor respond?
At Sensors Expo 2018, Giovanni De Majo from audio and pressure sensor product marketing at ams AG, discusses the company’s pressure sensor demo. Using two pressure sensors, the demo indicates relative height. Manually moving the pressure sensor up a measuring stick that shows the height change, a display also provides a continuous measurement from a […]
What’s new in embedded gateways for sensors?
At Sensors Expo 2018, Vishal Kakkad, director of product marketing at Lantronix explains the capabilities of the company’s Embedded Wired Ethernet IoT Gateway called the XPort Edge and software platform called MACH10 Global Device Manager. In a commercial water filtration system and a collection of data that a company would commonly want to monitor, the […]
Liquid X and Bonbouton Create Advanced Textile-Based Sensors
Liquid X Printed Metals has announced a collaboration effort with Bonbouton to build temperature and pressure sensors directly on textiles using additive manufacturing techniques. Bonbouton, based in New York City, has quickly become an innovative leader in thermal sensing using a smart textile platform. Through their inkjet-printable graphene technology licensed from the Stevens Institute of…
How can a core simplify pressure sensing applications?
At Sensors Expo 2018, Gary Winzeler, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for DunAn Sensing discussed the company’s new approach to specifying pressure sensors using a core approach. DunAn introduced their Ceramic Diaphragm Core (CDC) Core pressure transducer and the MEMS DURAsense Core (MDC) at Sensor Expo. Both allow pressure measurements to pumps, valves and […]
Optical Pressure Detector Could Improve Robot Skin, Wearables And Touch Screens
A new type of pressure sensor based on light could allow the creation of sensitive artificial skins to give robots a better sense of touch, wearable blood-pressure monitors for humans and optically transparent touch screens and devices. In the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, researchers report on a sensor that detects pressure by analyzing changes…
Engineers Use Tiki Torches In Study Of Soot, Diesel Filters
Chemical engineers testing methods to improve efficiency of diesel engines while maintaining performance are getting help from a summer staple: Tiki torches. A team of engineers at the University of Notre Dame is using the backyard torches as part of an effort to mimic the soot oxidation process in a diesel engine — when soot…
What’s new in robotic sensing?
At 2018 Sensors Expo in San Jose, CA, Jacob Hicks from Omron Electronic Components discusses including sensors in the Omron LD autonomous robot. The robot is linked to sensor technologies from Omron including cross referenced Raspberry Pi based cameras to provide locations and status information, similar to what might be required in a factory automation […]
Harsh media pressure transducers offer rear-entry ceramic packaging
DunAn Sensing has announced the MDC (MEMS DURAsenseâ Core) Series of harsh media compatible pressure transducers. The MDC series uses DunAn Sensing’s proprietary DURAsenseâ unique packaging and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) pressure sensor integration strategy to provide highly accurate pressure outputs in space-limited applications at a low cost including pumps, hydraulics, pneumatics, valves and hand-held devices. […]
Festo Bionic Learning Network adds robot bats, fish, spiders
The Festo Bionic Learning Network has released it latest biomimicry innovations to support ongoing research in engineering, manufacturing, and materials science drawn from natural systems. Here are the 2018 additions to the Festo Bionic Learning Network: A transforming spider that rolls or creeps A robotic fish that autonomously maneuvers through acrylic water-filled tubing A semi-autonomous flying…
What is a spirometer?
A spirometer is used to make the most common of pulmonary function tests (PFTs). It is a respiratory flowmeter that determines how well the lungs are working by measuring the amount of inhaled air, amount of exhaled air and how quickly it is exhaled. Used to diagnose asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other […]
How big is the MEMS pressure sensor market?
According to Yole Développement’s “MEMS Pressure Sensor Comparison 2018 report,” the global microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) pressure sensor market was about $1.6 billion US in 2017. It will grow by 3.8% per year to reach a value of $2B in 2023. While automotive and consumer applications are the largest markets, medical and industrial markets continue to […]
New DLC Series — High Resolution Compact Pressure Sensors
All Sensors Corporation of Morgan Hill, California has announced a brand new series of compact pressure sensors with digital output. The DLC Series offers excellent performance over ultra-low (1 to 60 inH2O) pressure ranges. These new pressure sensors offer high performance using All Sensors’ proprietary CoBeam2 TM technology. Higher pressure ranges from 5 to 150 […]
Digital sensor with analogue heart
The future-proof ceramic pressure sensor Ceracore USC30 from Endress+Hauser combines the advantages of the digital with the analogue world If you use analogue output signals in your pressure application and still want to take advantage of a digital signal in the future, you often only have the choice between purely digital or purely analogue sensors. […]
Sager Electronics expands with Sensata Technologies
Sager Electronics, a North American distributor of Interconnect, Power and Electromechanical components and provider of value-add solutions, today announces the addition of Sensata Technologies Pressure & Temperature products to their line card. The addition of these new technologies expands the breadth of sensing products available from Sager Electronics to include low, mid, and high-pressure industrial […]
‘Smart’ Material Enables Applications In Autonomous Driving and Robotics
Research led by scientists from the University of Luxembourg has shown the potential of liquid crystal shells as enabling material for a vast array of future applications, ranging from autonomous driving to anti-counterfeiting technology and a new class of sensors. Liquid Crystals, already widely used in flat-screen TVs, are materials that are in a state…
How do sensors make a smart crane safer?
Watching a crane operator elevate and transport a heavy load over a significant distance to a precise location with an articulated crane is always a fascinating and thought-provoking activity. With today’s concerns for job safety, how is safety handled in this process? Safety begins with the skill of the crane operator but today’s sensors and […]
High-Sensitivity Microsensors On The Horizon
Wireless microsensors have enabled new ways to monitor our environment by allowing users to measure spaces previously off limits to research, such as toxic areas, vehicle components, or remote areas in the human body. Researchers, however, have been stymied by limited improvements in the quality of data and sensitivity of these devices stemming from challenges…
Analog & digital pressure sensors
All Sensors Corporation of Morgan Hill, California has announced a new line of digital pressure sensors: the ELVR Series. The new device series offers OEM customers increased design flexibility for pressure ranges from 2.5 to 75 mbar (1 to 30 inch H2O). The ELVR Series is a direct replacement to First Sensors’ HCLA product line.…
New digital pressure sensor offers OEM customers increased design flexibility
All Sensors Corporation of Morgan Hill, California has announced a new line of digital pressure sensors: the ELVR Series. The new device series offers OEM customers increased design flexibility for pressure ranges from 2.5 to 75 mbar (1 to 30 inch H2O). The ELVR Series is a direct replacement to First Sensors’ HCLA product line. […]
How can sensors help you fly inside a building?
Due to gravity, when skydivers jump out of an airplane, they immediately fall toward the earth, falling several thousand feet in less than a minute before opening their parachutes. For indoor skydiving, where you float less than 100 feet above ground level, there is no parachute and a rather sophisticated process is involved that uses […]
New Piezoelectric Composite Developed at NUST MISIS
NUST MISIS scientists jointly with an international team have developed a composite material with notable piezoelectric properties. The research results were published in Scientific Reports journal. Piezoelectrics are one of the world`s most amazing materials. It is possible to literally squeeze electricity from them. That is, an electric charge appears at the time of the…
Next-Generation Consumer, Medical Products Drive Sensor Advances
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), wearable electronics, advanced medical products, and other applications has triggered a demand for sensors with advanced sensing capabilities that can fit into tight spaces, have extremely high resolution and accuracy, and consume low power. At the same time, the need for higher integration and value-added electronics assemblies…
Stainless steel, media isolated pressure sensors
The SPA 402 Series is a new, amplified pressure sensor offering excellent performance in various applications, especially for low and middle pressure and smaller solutions. Media-isolated sensors are designed to operate in hostile environments, yet offer the outstanding sensitivity, linearity, and hysteresis of a silicon sensor. This pressure sensor is compatible with 316L stainless steel,…
How to Solve the Challenges of Using Natural Refrigerants in Cooling System Design
Evolving government mandates dictate that equipment manufacturers migrate to using chemicals that do not adversely impact the environment. In the refrigeration/cooling arena, this means that manufacturers are replacing the old classes of chemical refrigerants that emit potent greenhouse gases, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), with less damaging, green refrigerants that do…