Sensors

In the coming years, driving will become even safer and more comfortable. Bosch is working toward this aim by improving existing assistance and safety systems while at the same time developing new features and improved sensors. The high number of traffic accidents worldwide demonstrates the need for the best possible safety technology in the car, says Dr. Werner Struth, President of the Bosch Chassis Systems Control division, pointing to the resu...

Point Grey today announced the launch of its new Grasshopper Express GX-FW series of IEEE 1394b (FireWire-b) digital cameras. The Grasshopper Express camera series is housed in the same compact housing as the original Grasshopper, but offers a host of new features and a new hardware architecture designed to accommodate a wide range of high speed quad-tap image sensors. The first available model, the GX-FW-10K3M-C, uses a monochrome version of the...

Farnell has launched a new microsite dedicated to sensors and sensing applications. In addition to giving fast and easy access to over 4,000 products, the sensing microsite also provides extensive design resources including application notes, white papers and product training videos to help keep engineers involved in this rapidly evolving sector up-to-date with the latest technologies and methodologies

Sensirion has recently launched two new versions of its differential pressure sensors with-in the SDP600 series. The new sensors SDP6x0-125Pa and SDP6x0-25Pa feature par-ticularly low measurement ranges of -125 to +125 Pa and -25 to +25 Pa, respectively. Due to their better resolution, the new products have improved zero point accuracy of 0.1 Pa. In addition, zero point repeatability reaches a remarkable 0.05 Pa for the 125Pa ver-sion and 0.03 Pa...

ETLG Inertial Aerosystems announce that the 3 - Axis magnetic sensor hybrid HMC2003 has acquired traceability status. Each sensor is serialised and batch traceable and ETL’s ISO 9001:2008 quality management system records and tracks the data

The new Honeywell TruStability Ultra-Low Pressure Sensors perform substantially better relative to stability than any other pressure sensor available in the industry today, even after long-term use and thermal extremes. This quality minimizes system calibration needs, maximizes system performance, and helps support system uptime by eliminating the need to service or replace the sensor during its application life.

Honeywell introduced today the new HumidIcon Digital Humidity/Temperature Sensors, HIH-6130/6131 Series, offering industry- leading accuracy, stability, and energy efficiency in a lowest total cost solution that combines digital output relative humidity and temperature sensing. This new product is designed for potential use in HVAC-refrigeration, respiratory therapy, medical incubators, and medical microenvironment applications.

Even today, a medium-sized vehicle contains about 1,000 chips and as many as 80 networked electronic systems. These numbers are set to grow as state-of-the-art safety technology gains traction – for example, driver assistance systems that help to prevent hazards such as rear-end collision in fog. The tight design envelope of a car means that existing systems have to become ever smaller and new ones have to be as compact as possible. This is whe...

The SMA550 and SMA560 are versatile accelerometers for automotive passive safety systems. They are typically used as central sensors in the airbag Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and measure the deceleration rate of a vehicle during a collision to activate restraint systems, such as front and side airbags or seatbelt tensioner. Other applications like shock monitoring are also possible.

Automotive safety is evolving from passive systems such as seat belts, airbags and crash detection to active sensing networks capable of collision avoidance and accident prevention. Radar is an especially promising active safety improvement and has the potential to significantly reduce the number and severity of distracted driving accidents. Analog Devices, Inc whose integrated inertial sensing iMEMS® technology helped make airbags a standard au...