One of the sensors that will fly aboard NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S was recently given a clean bill of health from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The sensor, known as EHIS, was successfully tested using the hospital's proton accelerator and deemed to be in good working order.
Patients suffering from chronic cardiopulmonary diseases could soon have a solution to help them accurately monitor their health and warn doctors at the first sign of trouble.
Harris Corporation has been awarded a $15 million follow-on contract to manufacture, test and deliver acoustic sensors for the Light Weight Wide Aperture Array (LWWAA) system, installed on the U.S. Navy’s 10 Virginia-class submarines.
Silicon Labs, a leading provider of microcontroller, wireless connectivity, analog and sensor solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that its Si1132 and Si114x ultraviolet (UV) index sensor family has been named a winner in the EE Times and EDN 2015 UBM Canon ACE Awards in the “Sensors” category. The ACE Awards program honors the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world of electronics.
Sonavation, a leader in ultrasound biometric technology for identification and authentication, recently reported success in creating an ultrasound biometric sensor that is compatible with Gorilla Glass®.
By Beth Ellison
22 Jul 2015
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is broadening its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of two new SurfLight™ high-speed infrared (IR) emitting diodes in compact 3.2 mm by 1.6 mm by 1.1 mm surface-mount, top-view packages. Based on Vishay’s GaAIAs surface emitter chip technology, the Vishay Semiconductors 850 nm VSMY12850 and 940 nm VSMY12940 combine high radiant intensity and optical power with fast switching times.
Kathryn Wills, of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Coventry University, discusses the role smart textiles have to play in remote healthcare in an article for the Guardian's Healthcare Professionals Network.
Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in digital X-ray imaging technology, will showcase its Rad-icon™ high performance, high resolution X-ray detectors at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Digital Imaging Conference in Warwick, Rhode Island from July 27-29th.
The image sensor market includes the implementation of image sensors in camera modules and in other imaging devices. Huge prevalence of the image sensor market in both developed and developing nations is due to its use in consumer electronics, automotive and transportation, security and surveillance, and advanced imaging techniques, which is also the key growth driver of the market.
Inovonics, an industry leader in high-performance wireless sensor networks for life safety applications, announces the release of its new EN1243 smoke/heat detector. The new smoke/heat detector is being added to Inovonics' Senior Living product portfolio.
XPRIZE and Wendy Schmidt last night announced the winners of the $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a global competition to incentivize breakthroughs in pH sensor technology to accurately and affordably measure the acidification of our oceans, in a ceremony co-hosted by Foreign Affairs.
Banner Engineering introduces the TL70 wireless tower light. Combining the company’s industry-recognized tower light family with its field-proven Sure Cross® wireless technology, the TL70 wireless tower light provides superior monitoring and visual status indication for remote applications, general and machine status, mobile call for parts, mobile work stations, threshold sensing and other applications where wired solutions are not cost-effective, practical or possible.
American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) the leader in open architecture, IP-based HMI panels, Panel Industrial PCs (IPCs), Industrial IoT, M2M and Industry 4.0 touch screen interfaces, has developed a new white paper on the topic of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M), Smart Technologies and Industry 4.0 Technologies.
ams AG, a leading provider of high performance sensors and analog ICs, launched today a new series of advanced optical sensing modules, the TMx4903, integrating multiple functions including universal remote control, barcode emulation, RGB color sensing, proximity and 3D gesture detection in a low-profile 5.0x2.0x1.0mm package.
The manipulation of light has led to many applications that have revolutionized society through communications, medicine and entertainment. Devices consuming the energy of electromagnetic radiation, such as absorbers and sensors, play an essential role in the using and controlling of light.