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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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Briefs: Automotive
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The next generation of wearable computing technology will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or glasses: It will be affixed to the skin.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon — the backbone...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new nanoelectronics platform based on graphene — a single sheet of carbon atoms.
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INSIDER: Communications
Researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering have developed a thin film device, fabricated by spray coating, that can block electromagnetic radiation with the flip...
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Blog: Unmanned Systems
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
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Blog: Design
See 10 AR/VR technologies from CES 2023.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Lynred, a global provider of infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, recently announced the launch of HEROIC,...
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Quiz: RF & Microwave Electronics
There's been a lot of talk about LiDAR recently. If you want to judge the arguments, you should know something about it. Take this LiDAR quiz to see how much you know.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
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Technology & Society: Design
SprayBox can target individual weeds and crops at a 20-per-second rate and then spray them at a millimeter’s accuracy.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A novel approach is moving away from conventional structural health monitoring testing methods for inflatable space habitats in favor of using sensors embedded in the flexible structural restraint webbing layers.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new Indicators feature true absolute sensor technology that minimizes the chance of data loss.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
The products of tomorrow.
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Products: Imaging
See what's new on the market, including a pressure transmitter, a new pressure instrument, new confocal controller, and more.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage.
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Briefs: Medical
This set of oculomotor metrics provide valid and reliable measures of dynamic visual performance.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The respirator earned a 100 percent success rate for fit testing.
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Briefs: Wearables
Device detects pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation in real time.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Users can download the design files to 3D print and assemble a customizable peristaltic pump.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The tiny device accurately measures acceleration in smaller navigation systems and other devices.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The model allows robots to ask clarifying questions to soldiers.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Unprecedented and unrelenting market turbulence has shown that the old ways of supply chain planning and manufacturing production are outdated and vulnerable to disruption.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The device is 100 percent electrically controllable regarding the colors of light it absorbs, which gives it massive potential for widespread usability.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This measurement technique is particularly useful for, but not limited to, samples containing organic compounds.
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INSIDER: Design
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and the University of California, Berkeley, have designed a robotic system that enables a low-cost and relatively small legged...
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5 Ws: Materials
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed low-cost, painless, and bloodless tattoos that can be self-administered and have many applications.
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Quiz: Medical
How much do you know about e-skin? Find out with the quiz below.
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