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Accelerometer

IoT Platform sports one-press activation, predictive alerts, false alarm filters

October 22, 2020 By Redding Traiger

Swift Sensors launches its new Series 3 wireless sensor system with significant improvements in wireless range, battery life, durability, and ease of deployment. Series 3, re-engineered from the ground up by Swift Sensors, incorporates cutting-edge BLE5 technology with the Nordic nRF52840 SoC’s on-chip cryptography, multi-protocol communication, and power management features: Three times the sensor range, […]

Filed Under: Gas Sensor, Industry Standards/Specifications, Internet of Things (IoT), Lighting, Pressure Sensor, Sensors, Vibration, Wireless Tagged With: swiftsensors

Smart sensors advancements bring new possibilities to industrial automation

August 28, 2020 By Aimee Kalnoskas

By Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technical Marketing at Newark Sensors are one of the most critical elements of electronic design for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications as, without them, devices have no input (beyond manual human intervention). The good news is that design engineers can now access state-of-the-art sensors that can radically transform […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Vibration

What is the secret sauce for wearables?

July 29, 2020 By Randy Frank

First, let’s consider the usual suspects: Type of sensor or sensors used: accelerometer, barometer, magnetometer, gyroscope and more Type of power source: battery, rechargeable battery, energy harvesting Other electronics to compute, store and conserve power consumption and more What the wearable does – measures and then communicates: activity tracker, electrocardiogram (ECG), fall detection, compass and […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Position, Pressure, Temperature, Wearable sensing technologies, Wireless Tagged With: kathy ireland worldwide

How can we sense the coronavirus?

May 5, 2020 By Randy Frank

Researchers at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago asked themselves that question. Their answer is a wearable wireless sensor similar to a Band-Aid strip. The device mounts to the throat and detects breathing and coughing and a set of algorithms provide the analysis. Similar to sensors designed to monitor speech and swallowing in […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Temperature Tagged With: Northwestern University, shirley ryan abilityab

Advantech launches WISE-2410 LoRaWAN Smart Vibration Sensor

May 5, 2020 By Mike Santora

The development of smart manufacturing relies on sensors, which acquire data, which automate the manufacturing process and thereby enable predictive maintenance. To meet the future needs of the industrial automation market in North America, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia, Advantech has collaborated with global semiconductor solutions provider Semtech to launch a LoRaWAN smart vibration sensor. […]

Filed Under: Vibration Tagged With: advantech

What kind of growth is expected in 3D sensing?

February 27, 2020 By Randy Frank

According to the report, “3D Sensor Market by Type” the global 3D sensor market is expected to grow from USD 2.9 billion in 2020 to USD 10.0 billion by 2025, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.9%. The market researchers acknowledge that one of the main driving factors of 3D sensor market is […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Image sensing, Market Research, Sensor Fusion, Time-of-Flight Tagged With: Apple, Sony Corp., ST Microelectronics

Accelerometer carries built-in noise filtering

December 17, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas

KX132-1211 accelerometer

Rohm Group company Kionix recently announced the availability of an accelerometer ideal for high accuracy, low power motion sensing applications in the industrial equipment and consumer wearable markets. In recent years, as factories have begun to save labor costs and increase efficiency, the concept of predictive maintenance for detecting abnormalities before equipment malfunctions has gained broad […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Position Tagged With: Kionix

What does it take to overcome audio noise?

October 2, 2019 By Randy Frank

At Sensor Expo 2019, Edoardo Gallizio from product marketing for MEMS & Sensors in the Americas at STMicroelectronics explains a voice recognition demo using sensor fusion that was development in conjunction with partner bdSound. The system is a reference design that uses ST’s MP23DB01HP digital microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone and the LIS25BA audio accelerometer to […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Microphones, Noise cancellation, Sensor-specific software Tagged With: bdSound, STMicroelectronics

What does complete predictive machine maintenance look like?

September 24, 2019 By Randy Frank

At Sensor Expo 2019, Edoardo Gallizio from product marketing for MEMS & Sensors in the Americas at STMicroelectronics demonstrates a complete predictive maintenance reference design. Multiple sensors are part of the monitoring where some sensors are mounted directly on a spinning wheel to continuously measure vibration. The sensors gather the data, a microprocessor accesses the […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Cloud sensing applications, Development Tools, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Temperature, Vibration Tagged With: Amazon, STMicroelectronics

What happens when the earth moves?

September 23, 2019 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2019, Satya Dixit from Applications and Systems Engineering at Rohm Semiconductor explains the capabilities and applications for an earthquake sensor module. The earthquake detection module (BP3901) has correctly detected 200 out of 205 previous cases of seismic events. Waveform differences between a seismic event and an external event such as a collision […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Vibration Tagged With: Kionix, ROHM Semiconductor

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