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In this next instalment of our blog series on the future of industrial automation, smarter factories will be looking at the role of sensor technology. The ongoing digitisation of industrial processes will increasingly rely on the use of a wide range of different sensor devices, incorporated into equipment throughout production lines and also the supply channels that feed them. By Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics

Distributor TTI is now stocking the VCNL36XXX family of proximity LASER sensors from Vishay.

Flexible circuit boards offer numerous advantages. However, the mechanical fixation of these circuit boards is highly complex. HARTING has developed a new solution based on 3D-MID technology that is capable of replacing flexible circuit boards. Thanks to component carriers, cost savings of up to two-thirds can be achieved.

The SUR series of siliconavalance photodiodes from LASER COMPONENTs are based on a reach through structure with high sensitivity in the DUV/UV wavelength range. Many applications particularly in the medical and biomedical fields require highly sensitive detectors at these short wavelengths for fluorescence measurements.

Analog Devices’ Jan-Hein Broeders, Healthcare Business Development Manager for Europe, discusseshealthcare sector trends and how recent developments in technology continue to further benefit our health and improve our lives.

This reference design from Texas Instruments enables a wearable, optimised saturation of peripheral capillary oxygen (SpO2) and multi-sensor, multi-wavelength optical heart rate monitor (HRM). It uses AFE4420 device, which is a single-chip, bio-sensing front end for photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements.

ON Semiconductor will have its latest LiDAR technology front-and-centre among the company’s automotive solutions at CES 2020. Recognised as a leading provider of detectors for LiDAR, the company will demonstrate the industry’s first, high-resolution, wide field-of-view (FoV) Single Photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array family designed for short-, mid- and long-range LiDAR applications.

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are very sensitive semiconductors that exploit the photoelectric effect to convert light to electricity and are the semiconductor analogue of photomultipliers. Their spectral response depends upon the substrate used, for example, silicon detects in the ~150-1100nm region, whilst InGaAs extends to 1.7um.

Vishay Intertechnology has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with RGBC-IR sensors for applications such as automatic white balancing and colour cast correction in digital cameras; automatic LCD backlight adjustment; and active monitoring of LED colour output for IoT and smart lighting.

With the new iC-RZ Series encoder chips from iC-Haus, safety encoders can be made even simpler and more compact. This is made possible by the innovative single-chip design as an optical twin encoder with a redundant safety channel.