Instrumentation and Control News

Canesta's image sensors can be concealed in bodywork, trim or in a vehicle dashboard. "It provides a comparatively low-cost, chip-based 3-D 'camera' that could serve multiple applications from a single installation,"

Presenting unified coverage of the design and modeling of smart micro- and macrosystems, this book addresses fabrication issues and outlines the challenges faced by engineers working with smart sensors in a variety of applications

Smart sensors find use in diverse industries including homeland security agriculture, automation and healthcare. Using an array of smart sensor gauges, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) find key applications in varied military projects, effort tracking, effort management systems, habitat and water quality monitoring, agricultural studies, radiation detection, homeland security, as well as preventive maintenance of machinery..

Telco Sensors continues to develop sensors that exceed their stated parameters - users of Telco systems know that the manufacturer's margins are up to 20% more in practice. This means not having to run 'close to the edge'. In the unlikely event of a failure, Spacemaster 6000 issues a warning by changing the status of the output signal...

A vision sensor combines the simplicity of a sensor with the technology used in more sophisticated vision products. Colour-based vision sensors are useful for a variety of tasks. These include measuring the area of a learned colour, detecting the presence or absence of colour, the identification of products based on colour and colour matching...

Cedip Infrared Systems has chosen the Photonex 2006 exhibition in Stoneleigh Park, UK (18 - 19th October 2006) to display its new Silver 660M IR camera to the UK public

At the heart of the DS2790's computing core is the low-power 16-bit MAXQ20 microcontroller with its advanced, accumulator-based (MAC), 16-bit RISC architecture. Highly efficient, its fetch and execution operations are completed in one cycle without pipelining, because the instruction contains both the operation code and data.

“What we are doing is making sensor network technology useful to businesses by creating a system that responds to the need for real-time information. It allows goods to act and react automatically to changes at the local level, and warn operators of the change,”

The F90 family is available in two versions, and linear sensing ranges of 80mm, 104mm and 120mm. The NBB3-F90-104-IU-V1 basic version provides 0-10VDC or 4-20mA outputs, while the NCB3-F90-104-IE8-V15 enhanced version offers a 4-20mA output and two teachable PNP switch point outputs for end-of-range signaling...

The ZFV-C also features a "Teach and Go" function using a color LCD screen and simple menu that reduce setup for inspections to a few simple steps. The screen shows a live image for instant feedback during both setup and inspection operations. There are eight sensor functions available, depending on the controller used, including counting, pattern recognition, size verification, position...