Sensors and Transducers

Storage of cereal crops and other foodstuffs is an essential part of ensuring a sustainable and robust food supply. Cereal crops are typically harvested between mid-July to mid-September but with careful storage can be kept for periods longer than a year. Successful storage of cereals involves the balance of a …

At HMI2020, Pepperl+Fuchs will be presenting a whole range of examples and of approaches to the successful implementation of digital transformation. Pixel-Plus combines data streams from multidimensional TOF (“time-of-flight”) sensors with signals from high-resolution color cameras, creating digital representations of real objects. These “digital twins” offer a much higher level …

Sensirion has entered into a cooperation with Alps Alpine in the field of humidity and temperature sensing. Thanks to this cooperation, customers will benefit from both companies’ individual strengths in the sensor and module business. From today, Sensirion will provide Alps Alpine with its best-in-class humidity and temperature sensor components, …

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has awarded 13 contracts worth a total of £2.3 million to develop improved Electro-Optics and Infrared (EOIR) sensor capability. The Advanced Vision 2020 and Beyond competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), sought innovation and novel approaches from industry, …

Safety tech company Tended has launched a wearable with social distancing technology. Through a range of proprietary social distancing solutions, including IoT hardware, AI and reporting tools, Tended aims to accelerate the transition back to safe working across a range of industries, rolling its wearable out to those working in …

When a tram reaches a road junction, wire-switches, installed on the overhead conductor cables, control its direction of travel, with switches in either the default “straight-through” or “turnout” positions. As the tram passes a switch in the turnout position, Contrinex photoelectric sensors mounted on the overhead cables detect the presence …

TouchNetix has introduced Chrominance, a sensor assembly for touchscreen displays which sets new benchmarks for performance, reliability and ease of system installation in industrial, medical, transportation and military applications, and in any type of harsh or hazardous environment. The Chrominance sensor assemblies, which are based on TouchNetix’ aXiom series touchscreen …

Antioxidants are one of the most interesting and widely investigated compounds in life sciences due to their key role in the protection of living systems from the negative effects of free radicals. A great variety of antioxidants and discoveries of new ones give opportunities to better understand their pathways and …

Busy container seaports rely upon the ‘24/7’ operation of specialist container-handling vehicles called Straddle Carriers for loading, unloading and stacking containers. Often located at ports, being beside the sea can mean that they have to work in an aggressive and corrosive environment, requiring frequent maintenance. Because traditional, interval-based maintenance schedules …

Following a competitive tendering process, the Environment Agency has awarded OTT Hydrometry with a national contract to supply submersible pressure sensors to be used in water level measurement applications associated with surface water, groundwater and tidal water monitoring. The contract is part of a joint procurement exercise with SEPA (Scottish …