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How can asynchronous power produce longer battery life?

November 29, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensor Expo 2018, Paul Washkewicz, Vice-President of Marketing for Eta Compute explains how his company’s application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) uses asynchronous logic to lower the power to the microcontroller unit (MCU) to extend battery life. The ASIC is based on an ARM M3 and has a CoolFlux digital signal processor (DSP) from NXP in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: Eta Compute

Heilind Electronics stocking Standex Electronics reed switches

October 19, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas

reed switches

Heilind Electronics is now offering a broad variety of reed switches from Standex Electronics – a leading manufacturer of custom electromagnetic components and the world’s largest producer of reed switches. Standex’s portfolio includes a diverse selection of magnetic reed switches covering the majority of low power switching requirements. The switches are designed to carry as low […]

Filed Under: Sensor Fusion, Touch Sensing Tagged With: heilindelectronics, standexelectronics

Sensor fusion: What is it?

March 30, 2017 By Randy Frank

Today, advanced sensing applications in smart phones and automobiles frequently use sensor fusion. However, advanced industrial applications such as sophisticated robots also take advantage of this technology. Sensor fusion is actually a subcategory of data fusion and is also called multisensory data fusion or sensor-data fusion. For location sensing in smart phones the data from […]

Filed Under: Featured, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: sensor fusion

Where are the autonomous vehicle sensors?

January 25, 2017 By Randy Frank

At CES 2017, Cason Grover, Sr. Group Manager, Vehicle Technology Planning from Hyundai Motor America explains the vision and range sensors in Hyundai’s Autonomous Ioniq. The vehicle has one forward facing long range radar and three LiDAR units at the front and four cameras mounted inside at the top of windshield. Radar units at the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Image sensing, RADAR/LiDAR, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: Hyundai

8-Mpixel sensor chip targets scientific imaging

September 28, 2016 By WTWH Editor

New 8-megapixel IT-EMCCD device, integrated cooler option for family provide new capabilities for medical, scientific & surveillance imaging PHOENIX, AZ – ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), continues to strengthen its position in low-light imaging solutions for industrial markets with the introduction of new products based on interline transfer electron multiplying charge-coupled device (IT-EMCCD) technology. The new […]

Filed Under: Image sensing, Sensor Fusion, Vision systems

Fiber optic displacement sensor has measurement accuracy in the micron range

April 1, 2016 By Andrew Zistler

OMRON Corporation, Kyoto City, will introduce on April 1 the new confocal fiber displacement sensor ZW-7000 Series. Incorporating the new white light confocal principle(*2) of measurement, the ZW-7000 Series is a non-contact-type displacement sensor that can continuously measure the height of objects with various materials and shapes with an accuracy of microns while moving the […]

Filed Under: fiber optic, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: Omron

Small flexible candlestick sensor measures temperature and velocity

February 19, 2016 By Andrew Zistler

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 […]

Filed Under: Motion, Sensor Fusion, Temperature Tagged With: advancedthermalsolutions

First large area fingerprint and vein sensor on plastic

January 20, 2016 By Andrew Zistler

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 […]

Filed Under: Sensor Fusion, Touch Sensing Tagged With: flexenable, isorg

Virtual reality comes to smartphones with 3d sensor chips

January 6, 2016 By Andrew Zistler

In the future, mobile devices will be able to quickly and realistically detect their surroundings in three dimensions (3D). When they do, it will be thanks to the 3D image sensor chips from Infineon Technologies AG and pmdtechnologies gmbh. REAL3 will enable extremely realistic virtual and augmented reality game experiences that involve the interaction of […]

Filed Under: Mobile, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: Infineon, pmdtechnology

Low-power sensor fusion platform seamlessly integrates into wearables

January 5, 2016 By Andrew Zistler

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and CyweeMotion Ltd., today announced that CyweeMotion’s Sensor Fusion Hub software has been optimized for Cadence Tensilica Fusion digital signal processors (DSPs). This solution delivers a fully optimized, low-power sensor fusion platform for seamless integration into mobile or wearable devices. The Sensor Fusion Hub technology from CyweeMotion is sensor […]

Filed Under: Sensor Fusion, Wearable sensing technologies Tagged With: cadence

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