At Sensors Expo 2018, Giovanni De Majo from audio and pressure sensor product marketing at ams, demonstrates how his company’s AS3415 Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) chip can help reduce the background noise for headphone users in an airport, car or airplane. Selecting between the noise situation in an airplane car or airport De Majo chooses […]
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How fast can a MEMS pressure sensor respond?
At Sensors Expo 2018, Giovanni De Majo from audio and pressure sensor product marketing at ams AG, discusses the company’s pressure sensor demo. Using two pressure sensors, the demo indicates relative height. Manually moving the pressure sensor up a measuring stick that shows the height change, a display also provides a continuous measurement from a […]
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 […]
Highly Accurate Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor IC
Having two sensing functions in a single package is advantageous for space- and power-constrained designs. With its ENS210, a highly accurate relative humidity and temperature sensor IC, ams AG achieves these goals. The sensor has a digital temperature output in Kelvin, accurate to a maximum ±0.2°C over the range 0°C to 70°C and a digital […]
Smaller Light Sensors, Better Performance
With its TMD2620 proximity sensor and TMD2725 ambient light sensor (ALS) modules, ams AG reduces the LED emitter-to-sensor gap to just 1.0 mm while eliminating the effect of optical cross talk. The TMD2620 and TMD2725 enable aperture size as small as 1.4 and 2.0mm respectively. This means that android smartphone manufacturers can reduce the sensor […]
A Single-Chip Solution for Ultrasonic Water Flow Metering
Designs that specifically target an end application provide a much better head start to the system designer. This is certainly the case for the TDC-GP30-F01from ams AG, a provider of sensors and analog ICs. The single-chip solution for ultrasonic flow meter ICs is a complete hardware and firmware measurement solution for cold water meters. It […]
Robot Moves Smoothly Thanks to Position Sensors
At Sensors Expo 2015 in Long Beach, CA, Heinz Oyrer, a senior marketing manager for ams AG explains the use of 76 of the company’s position sensors in a robot. For more information about ams position sensors, click here.
Home Monitoring System can See, Hear, Feel and Smell
Withings combined ams AG’s gas sensor with a 5Mpixel video camera, dual microphones, temperature and humidity sensors and Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® Smart radios in its Home monitoring system. The result is a system that can see, hear, feel and smell and alert the home owner though a smartphone or tablet app. The AS-MLV-P2 MEMS gas […]
Color Sensor For Mobile Devices
The ams AG TCS34901 color sensor for portable devices targets light source detection for operation under a wide range of light sources and enables sophisticated display management and brightness control. The light to digital sensor has five-channels for extremely accurate measurements of the Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) of light. In addition to the red, green […]
Lighting Management IC Integrates Sensor
Integration of sensor technology to accomplish or simplify specific tasks is among the innovations that can be expected as Internet of Things (IoT) concepts are exploited. Integration at the IC level means smaller components that can integrate into the end products that previously did not have connectivity or had a more restricted functionality. With its […]
