Smart sensor nodes are the “canaries in a coal mine” for the industrial IoT, sensitively monitoring industrial equipment for vibrations, electrical current and voltage changes, temperature, sound, and ...

There are countless smart home devices, varied in gadgetry and practicality, that you can place piecemeal throughout your home and configure any way you want. From voice assistants to smart locks, ...

When I was writing up the new high-precision 6-degrees-of-freedom inertial motion unit (IMU) from Epson I came across a useful page on the website about how gyros sensors work. At their simplest, ...

A new device that can detect ultra-low concentrations of gases like nitrogen dioxide accurately and nearly instantaneously has been developed by a team of researchers. Nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant ...

The ability to measure, monitor, and analyze vibration is essential to many industries and areas of research & development. Unfortunately, the proper methods for creating an accurate and repeatable ...

Densely packed arrays of electrical components called capacitors can form a high-fidelity vibration sensor that can be worn on the skin. Seungjae Lee is in the School of Energy and Chemical ...

Vibration sensors can aid in stability and navigation, particularly for field robots in varied terrain, writes a columnist.

Part 1 of this series addressed the advantages and disadvantages of various vibration sensors; Part 2 examined signal conditioning and system hardware selection and configuration. I’ll wrap up by ...