Balluff’s newest member is the Advanced SMARTLEVEL. This sensor combines standard capacitive sensing technology and the patented SMARTLEVEL technology enabling the ability to sense solids and highly conductive acids and bases with the utmost reliability. The Balluff Advanced SMARTLEVEL is housed in 316 stainless steel for the most aggressive environments. The PEEK sensing nose will […]
Small flexible candlestick sensor measures temperature and velocity
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) now provides the base-and-stem Candlestick sensor for simultaneously measuring air temperature and velocity when characterizing thermal conditions inside electronic systems. The Candlestick sensor is narrow and low profile, in heights of 9, 12 and 20mm. These features minimize the disturbance of airborne heat flow in the test domain for more […]
Wireless tachometer harvests energy from magnetic induction sensors
Jennova Inc., a specialist in smart energy management solutions, has developed a new patented Wireless Diesel Tachometer specifically designed to provide a simple, self-powered solution for generating tachometry readings from nearly any motor. The process is based on the company’s patented Electrodynamic Energy Harvesting (EH) technology, which powers the device and enables the unit’s magnetic […]
Tiny gas detector sits in TO39 housing
Even smaller, even stronger – this is how we might describe the new LRM-254 detector by InfraTec in just a few words. This miniaturized four channel detector in TO39 housing, with an aperture of only five millimeters, has just expanded the product range of the Dresden manufacturer, InfraTec. A mere glance at its appearance gives […]
CMOS vision sensors handle 1,000 frames/sec
The latest industrial camera generation USB 3 uEye CP from IDS is now available with the CMOS sensors PYTHON 500, PYTHON 2000 and PYTHON 5000 from ON Semiconductor. In addition to the fully-established PYTHON 1300, IDS Imaging Development Systems offers three more members of the sensor series. The sensors are designed to provide high-speed, reaching […]
New development kit for wireless humidity and temperature sensor applications
Sensirion, the world’s leading provider of humidity and temperature sensors, now offers a new development kit for humidity and temperature measurements: the SHT31 Smart Gadget. The Smart Gadget comes with a SHT31 humidity and tem-perature sensor and shows the ambient humidity, temperature, and dew point in Celsius and Fahrenheit. Furthermore, it is able to communicate […]
World’s smallest differential pressure sensor opens up many new applications
Sensirion will be showcasing a genuine innovation at this year’s medical technology trade fair MD&M West – the world’s smallest differential pressure sensor. Sensirion’s new SDP3x digital differential pressure sensor measures just 5mm x 8mm x 5mm and opens up countless new integration and application possibilities, including for the measurement of air flows in medical […]
New line of fiber optic sensors
Carlo Gavazzi is pleased to announce a new line of Fiber Optic Sensors, including the FA1 Fiber Optic Amplifier, and the FUT and FUR Fiber Optic Cables. The compact, intuitive, and flexible design of the FA1 Fiber Optic Amplifier is ideal for a wide variety of applications. An adjustable signal level, selectable response time, multiple […]
Ultrasound in mobile phones replaces proximity sensors
Elliptic Labs has turned its attention toward reinventing the optical proximity sensor for smartphones. Hardware-based optical sensors have been an indispensable part of every smartphone since their inception to turn off the screen and disable touch functionality when a user holds a device to their ear. By replacing these hardware components, with Elliptic Labs’ “BEAUTY” […]
First large area fingerprint and vein sensor on plastic
FlexEnable and ISORG have revealed the world’s first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic designed for biometric applications. With an 8.6 cm x 8.6 cm active area, 84µm pitch (78µm pixel size with 6µm spacing) and 1024 x 1024 = 1048576 pixel resolution, this revolutionary flexible sensor is only 0.3 mm thick and can […]
