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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers have developed a thin, flexible, stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat — at the press of a finger.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors — also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs) — for orbiting spacecraft.
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Products: Power
New products for February 2023, including stainless-steel specialty inductive proximity sensors, hermetically sealed position sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Design
The work shows the real-world viability of their easy-to-use and inexpensive methods of testing.
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Articles: Connectivity
Learn about LoRaWAN networking as a solution for connecting wireless sensors at long distances, while extending battery life.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
To improve efficiency, it is necessary to characterize and reduce flow separation on curved surfaces.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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: Medical
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: Materials
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: Electronics & Computers
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: Design
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
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Blog: Connectivity
See 10 AR/VR technologies from CES 2023.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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: Electronics & Computers
The new Indicators feature true absolute sensor technology that minimizes the chance of data loss.
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Articles: Design
The products of tomorrow.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Test & Measurement
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: Aerospace
The tiny device accurately measures acceleration in smaller navigation systems and other devices.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.
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