Remember the days of the simple photo-electric cell? Using either a transmitter-receiver pair or a single TX/RX with a retro-reflector, the interruption of an IR beam would trigger an alarm, stop a ...

Food and beverage applications make use of a range of sensor technologies. Here’s a brief look at laser displacement sensors. The DS1100 laser-displacement sensor from Cognex, released in March 2013, ...

OPTEX, a leading global sensor manufacturer, is expanding its series of award-winning REDSCAN laser sensors with the launch of a new short range, indoor model that features the same proven benefits of ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that its laser navigation sensor technology is now available to mouse manufacturers worldwide. Three versions of the industry's first laser-based optical ...

TDK Corp. has unveiled several new sensor, laser, and microphone products at CES 2021. Three of the most advanced products announced include the TCE-11101 MEMS-based carbon dioxide (CO 2) gas sensor ...

With the development of the information era, sensors capable of transmitting and detecting information have become the leading way to obtain information. Therefore, building a sensor system with a ...

Every once in a while, you get your hands on a cool piece of hardware, and of course, it’s your first instinct to open it up and see how it works, right? Maybe see if it can be coaxed into doing just ...

A research team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed new laser technology that could lead to tiny, ...