Category: Sensor
ams Introduces World’s First AEC-Q102 and ISO 26262 Compliant VCSEL Flood Illuminator
ams announced the pre-release of the new TARA2000-AUT family of VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser) flood illuminators for automotive applications. According to the company, the TARA2000-AUT flood illuminators are the industry’s first to be qualified to the AEC-Q102...
Continue ReadingTDK introduces revolutionary MEMS-based CO2 gas sensor platform
TDK Corporation announces the InvenSense TCE-11101, a miniaturized ultra-low-power MEMS gas sensor platform for direct and accurate detection of CO2 in-home, automotive, IoT, healthcare, and other applications. The TCE-11101 introduces new technology that expands TDK’s sensor...
Continue ReadingHigh Accuracy Current Sensor with 400Khz Bandwidth using ACS37002
This is a high accuracy current sensor project build using ACS37002 IC from Allegro, which is a fully integrated Hall-effect current sensor with 0.85mOhms integrated conductor. A fast overcurrent alert output, programmable gain settings and analog linear voltage outputs are key features...
Continue ReadingBosch’s BHI260AP self-learning AI smart sensor for fitness tracking
Athletes have started relying on fitness trackers to monitor their daily exercise and to improve their performance. After a series of developments in smart trackers for athletes, Bosch has now released its new self-learning AI smart sensor - BHI260AP specially designed for fitness...
Continue ReadingSmall form factor mmWave radar sensor for industrial and automotive applications
With high-frequency contactless technology operating at 30 to 300 GHz, often known as mmWave is widely implemented as a sensing technology for proximity detection of objects and motion sensing. Since it operates at a high frequency, meaning the technology uses smaller wavelengths that...
Continue ReadingTexas Instruments’ Antenna-On-Package mmWave Sensor
Radar sensors are not exactly a new thing, but, like every other technology, there is always progress to be made, something that could be improved in order to take the technology to the next level. One of its younger cousins, the mmWave technology, which you may have not heard of until...
Continue ReadingAccurate Digital Temperature Sensor? Meet the AMS AG AS6221
Temperature sensors, alone, or on their own, have infinite applications, however, one of the challenges typically experienced with their use is the varying degree of accuracy obtainable with the sensors available in the market. Adding to the growing list of precision temperature sensors...
Continue ReadingAMS AG AS8579 automotive-grade capacitive sensor
AMS's highly accurate capacitive sensors enable reliable and accurate presence sensing of human beings in automotive systems AMS's highly accurate capacitive sensors enable reliable and accurate presence sensing of human beings in automotive systems. The AS8579 sensor is capable of...
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