Category: Sensors & Sensing Systems

Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology claims that if the economic climate of the last few years has taught us anything, it is that UK manufacturers cannot rely on the domestic market alone, and that they must make every effort to...

Traditional methods for in-process control and end-of-line control use electrical resistance, optical imaging, spectrometry, light beam and mechanical sizing. It wasn’t until recently that weighing technology was used in...

Perpetuum has announced that it has received an order from Southeastern Railways to supply wireless sensor systems for all 148 of its Electrostar train stock (618 cars). The sensor systems monitor wear of the bearings and wheels...

On 4th April, e2v imaging sensors were launched into space onboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Albert Einstein spacecraft, the fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to be sent to the International Space Station...

Heiko Luckhaupt, Automation & Control, RS Components, looks at how sensors have become the eyes and ears of automation systems When assessing technological progress, it is very common to focus on the massive increases in...