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How can you detect seismic waves?

August 28, 2017 By Randy Frank

How can you detect seismic waves?

At Sensor Expo 2017, Jacob Hicks, the assistant product manager for Omron Electronic Components’ Sensors unit shows the capabilities of the D7S, a vibration sensor that can detect seismic waves, and Itron’s Riva development board for wireless communications. Partnering with Itron, Omron’s D7S sits on top of Itron’s Riva board. The D7S contains an ASIC, […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Development Tools, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Vibration, Wireless Tagged With: Itron, Omron Electronic Components

What’s the future of augmented reality?

August 15, 2017 By Randy Frank

What’s the future of augmented reality?

In his keynote address at Sensors Expo 2017, Ori Inbar, co-founder and CEO of AugmentedReality.org tells how augmented reality (AR) is poised for considerable growth. (Excerpt from “Superpowers to Change the World: How Augmented Reality Helps Advance Humanity.”) In 2009, Inbar told a conference audience that in ten years everyone will use AR to experience […]

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Mobile, Wearable sensing technologies, Wireless Tagged With: Apple, AugmentedReality.org

How do you accelerate an energy harvesting design?

June 27, 2017 By Randy Frank

How do you accelerate an energy harvesting design?

One of the more common techniques for accelerating designs and avoiding unexpected design problems involves software tools. For energy harvesting (EH) applications, Mentor Graphics on-line modeling and simulation platform called SystemVision, a cloud-based design system, provides component/system suppliers and users the basis for a new EH design tool. Since many designers are intrigued by the […]

Filed Under: Development Tools, Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) Tagged With: energy harvesting, Mentor Graphics

Environmental Sensor Kits for Improving Indoor Air Quality

December 20, 2016 By Randy Frank

Environmental Sensor Kits for Improving Indoor Air Quality

Monitoring indoor air quality (IAQ) is an essential aspect of a smart (or any) building’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC ) system – especially as the sealing to minimize cooling or heating leakage has improved.  One recent study found that well-ventilated offices with below-average levels of indoor pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2) resulted in […]

Filed Under: Chemical Sensor, Development Tools, Featured Tagged With: ams AG

Getting Sensor Products to Market Faster

November 28, 2016 By Randy Frank

Getting Sensor Products to Market Faster

At the MEMS & Sensors Group Executive Conference in Scottsdale, AZ, Paul Meissner, founder and President of i-BLADES explains how his company’s i-BLADES Smartcase platform helps other companies get their sensor products to market faster. For more information about i-Blades, click here.

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured Tagged With: i-BLADES

Check out These Sensor Products and Eval Boards

July 22, 2016 By Randy Frank

Check out These Sensor Products and Eval Boards

At Sensors Expo 2016, Bill Carrick, Director of Supplier Business Development from Digi-Key Electronics displays sensor products and evaluation boards from several suppliers that are available through his company. For more information, click here.

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured, MEMS Sensor Technology Tagged With: Digi-Key Electronics

Monitoring a Closed Loop Water Circulation System

June 30, 2016 By Randy Frank

Monitoring a Closed Loop Water Circulation System

At Sensors Expo 2016, Mike Stanley from NXP Semiconductors explains machine learning techniques in a closed loop water circulation system by sensing normal and abnormal vibrations using a Data Logger Reference Design. For information about the RD-KL25-AGMP01 10-Axis Sensor Data Logger Reference Design, click here.

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured, MEMS Sensor Technology Tagged With: NXP Semiconductors

Integrated Resolver Sensor Interface Boasts Smaller, Safer and More Accurate Rotary Position Sensing

June 24, 2016 By Randy Frank

Integrated Resolver Sensor Interface Boasts Smaller, Safer and More Accurate Rotary Position Sensing

Promoted as the industry’s first resolver sensor interface with an integrated power supply, exciter amplifier and functional safety features, Texas Instruments’ PGA411-Q1 resolver-to-digital converter’s architecture offers designers a lot from a 64-pin thermally enhanced thin quad flat pack (HTQFP) PowerPAD package. The high level of integration means the IC is capable of simultaneously exciting the […]

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured, Interface, Resolver Tagged With: Texas Instruments

Second Gen Eval Kit Simplifies Design at Lower Cost

June 20, 2016 By Randy Frank

Second Gen Eval Kit Simplifies Design at Lower Cost

With today’s extensive technical capabilities, an evaluation kit is the key to a quick, successful design in. Improving on its previously released eval kit, ROHM has announced the availability of its SENSORSHLD1-EVK-101. The second-generation sensor shield integrates 10 on-board sensors. Providing a lower cost alternative to the previous version, the new kit includes standard Arduino […]

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured, Internet of Things (IoT) Tagged With: ROHM

Accelerometer Demo Indicates Motion

August 5, 2015 By Randy Frank

Accelerometer Demo Indicates Motion

At Sensors Expo 2015 in Long Beach, CA, Peter Hauck from Freescale Semiconductor demonstrates the capabilities of a cube with an integrated microcontroller and a 3-axis accelerometer, and a 3-color LED output to indicate various motion situations. For more information about the MMA9559LKUBE, click here.

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Development Tools, Featured, Motion Tagged With: Freescale Semiconductor

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