Sensors & Test

Sensors/​Data Acquisition

This is your resource for developments in smart sensor systems and data acquisition. Browse technical briefs, articles, and white papers on advanced applications in transducer technologies, detector systems, data acquisition, and sensor-related technologies.

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Blog: Automotive
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
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Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Aerospace & Defense - September 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about the technology driving the Mars 2020 rover, how NASA will use GPS to navigate...

Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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Test & Measurement - September 2020
See how the latest test tools and methodologies are enabling new applications in aerospace, electronics, robotics, healthcare, and other key industries. This compendium of recent articles is presented by the...

Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
InnoSenT introduced the IMD-3000 radar system as an alternative to pushbutton switches.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
High-temp infrared emitter, single-frequency SWIR lasers, hazard testing systems, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The COVID crisis is propelling the camera industry toward disruptive transformation.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn how to obtain large signals from hyperspectral imagers.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
University of Colorado researchers have described a new silicon chip that improves the resolution and scanning speed needed for a lidar system.
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Briefs: Wearables
A new type of motion capture technology accurately tracks an athlete during the push start phase of performance.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Designed to assist in robotic surgeries, biomedical devices can be printed in and on the human body.
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Products: Imaging
Safety-critical MEMS, absolute pressure sensors, thermal imaging cameras, and more.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These sensors will improve autonomous technologies in the industrial environment, like AGVs or forklifts.
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Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Choosing the right battery will save trouble and expense in the long run.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of trees in the wind.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Smart sensors for hazardous areas monitor essential assets, such as motors and pumps.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Predictive maintenance is poised to become much more widely adopted, and that will help to boost productivity in a time when we really need it.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Self-powering, color-changing humidity sensors are applicable to various fields including smart windows, health care, and safety management.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With accelerated time from design to production, specialized foil sensor arrays will be expanding to many new areas.
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Articles: Data Acquisition
Tech Briefs posed questions to machine learning/AI industry execs to get their opinions on platform selection, data interpretation, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method provides a key step toward quantum computers, sensors, and distributed quantum information.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pop-up miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami can be repeatedly compressed.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In place of flat breadboards, 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
This method of machine learning could make communications in the unlicensed bands much more efficient.
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Briefs: Wearables
This technique can be used by people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
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