Sensors

The cold water of the ocean floor is an inhospitable environment for humankind, yet key infrastructure is operating down here.

The automotive camera and image sensor markets have seen substantial 22.8% and 35.3% YoY growth in revenues to reach $5.4 billion and $2.2 billion respectively in 2022.

PreAct Technologies has announced the release of its Mojave LiDAR as a high-performance, low-cost sensor solution to address a variety of applications including smart cities, robotics, cargo monitoring, education & university research, building monitoring, patient monitoring, agriculture, and much more.

Advanced Energy – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – have announced two new high-performance, high-accuracy technologies for RF power sensor calibration. 

Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top 5 sensor products to have been released in July 2023.

NewTek Sensor Solutions has designed a custom LVDT position sensor for resistance spot welding machines used in automotive plants to detect missing or misaligned parts in nut and stud welding. Cars contain hundreds of welded nuts and studs that hold them together. 

Today's smart skin patches can incorporate a broad range of functions, employing hybrid printed electronics to enhance medical sensing capabilities and improve patient outcomes. Along with the enormous potential, though, there are also complex design challenges.

The ZMX 3D time of flight (ToF) sensor from Banner Engineering is now being shipped by authorised distributor Mouser Electronics.

SICK has added the UC40, a powerful and compact cube sensor, to its market-leading family of ultrasonic sensors. 

The new 0330 Optical Sensor from sensing and instrumentation specialist BAUMER is the latest addition to their ever-expanding photoelectric range of sensors combining smart design features with high performance reserve capacities.