In February, six students on snowshoes battled as much as 12 feet of snow to penetrate into the heart of the American River basin. Moving through dense forests and meadows, they mounted 90 iPhone-size ...

A radar sensor measures solids and liquids in tanks and vessels. It continues measuring during turbulence and buildup inside processing equipment.

Top quality sensors built into respiratory instruments are aimed at measuring the most minute flow rates around the zero point of the respiratory flow. Additionally, such sensors are able to sense ...

Accurately measuring electric fields is important in a variety of applications, such as weather forecasting, process control on industrial machinery, or ensuring the safety of people working on ...

Augmented reality startup Occipital first burst on the scene in 2013 with a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Structure Sensor — a strip of cameras and sensors you strap to your iPad that can be ...

Measuring RF Power Sensor Nonlinearity RF power sensor linearity is a commonly misunderstood topic. To obtain the most accurate power measurements, though, you need to understand what linearity is, ...

Inductive position-measuring systems (IPMSs) operate on the same principle as an inductive proximity sensor. But instead of a single sensing coil, position measuring uses a multiple-coil system. The ...

Hall-effect switches and instrumentation-grade sensors have become more commonplace in industrial applications, with a wide range of Hall-effect devices now packaged for designers of products and ...

Overall, the results suggest that the sensor they developed is an efficient and reliable solution to measure serotonin levels and study serotonergic dynamics in vivo over time. In the future, if ...

The garbage bin sensor firm Enevo, an exemplar of the efficiency potential of the internet of things, has raised a healthy chunk of money from investors including Earlybird, Lifeline Ventures, Finnish ...