Sensor Categories
Distance Measuring Sensors
Sensors for measuring the distance between two objects.
Electrochemical Sensors
Used for detecting reactive gasses and measuring hazardous gas amounts in a given environment.
Flow Sensors
Used to detect the rate of fluid flow. Flow sensors are used in flow meters and loggers to measure the flow of fluids.
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Force Sensors
Used in a wide array of applications for detecting precise forces in many industries.
Gas Sensors
Gas sensors detect the presence of various gases within an area, usually as part of a safety system.
Hall Effect Sensors
Used primarily for proximity switching, positioning, speed detection and current sensing applications.
Humidity Sensors
Used in industrial manufacturing systems to detect the presence of moisture and liquids.
Infrared Sensors
Detect ultra violet rays and other waves for a wide array of applications including temperature monitoring and motion sensing.
Liquid Level Sensors
Used to measure a fluid inside a container or a fluid in its natural form
Load Cells
Used to convert a force into an electrical signal. This conversion is indirect and happens in two stages.
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Magnetic Sensors
Types include magnetic proximity sensors, speed sensors, rotary position sensors, limit sensors, direction sensors and more.
MEMs Sensors
Used as pressure sensors for micro scale applications in a wide array of industries.
Multi-Axis Sensors
Multi-Axis transducers are available in many different types including stick/gear shift knob load cells, bi-axial load arms, torque/thrust, tri-axial load cells, moment load cells and more.
Photoelectric Sensors
Used to detect distance, absence, or presence of an object by using a light transiter and a photoelectric receiver.
Piezoelectric Sensors
Used to measure pressure, strain or other forces by converting them into an electric charge.
Position Sensors
Types include potentiometers, eddy-current sensors, capacitive transducers, linear variable differential transformers and more.
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Pressure Sensors
Measure, monitor and control pressure, typically of gases or liquids and also act as a transducer,
Proximity Sensors
Used to detect the presence of nearby objects without making any physical contact by emitting an electromagnetic or electrostatic field to detect objects.
Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTDs)
Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTDs) contain resistors that change resistance value as its temperature fluctuates.
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Safety Sensors
Used to detect arms, fingers and human bodies entering the operating area of dangerous machinery to prevent human injuries.
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Speed Sensors
Detect the rate or rotation of various industrial machinery utilizing belt-driven conveyor pulleys.
Temperature Sensors
Used to measure the thermal radiant power of infrared or optical radiation from an area’s surface.
Thermistors
A type of resistor commonly used as inrush current limiters, temperature sensors or self-resetting overcurrent protector.
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Torque Sensors
A torque sensor or torque transducer or torquemeter is meant for measuring and recording the torque on a rotating system.
Transducers
Used to convert one type of energy to another. Can be used as sensors, actuators or a combination of the two.
Ultrasonic Sensors
Used to generate high frequency sound waves to calculate the time interval between sending and receiving the signal to determine distance to an object.
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Vibration Sensors
Used to detect and measure vibrations as well as tilt, shock, and acceleration for a wide array of applications.