Sensor Review: Volume 18 Issue 1

Optical fibre sensing for intelligent monitoring

Optical sensors already form important elements of optical fibre based transducers for measuring a wide range of parameters. This viewpoint emphasises the major potential provided…

Intrinsic optical fibre current sensors

Passive optical‐fibre current measurement devices offer technical and economic advantages for power‐system use. Methods which have been examined for implementing such devices are…

From imaging to knowledge

This article summarises some of the presentations at a recent conference on the emerging technology of intelligent imaging.

VisionSensor™ ‐ a unique solution to particle size distribution analysis

Vision technology is gaining more and more acknowledgement in the process industry as an effective way for a company to ensure high quality of production. After an introduction to…

Optical pressure and temperature sensors for aerospace applications

This paper gives a brief overview of requirements within the aerospace market sector for which optical sensors are of potential benefit, and goes on to describe sensors currently…

Optical fibre Bragg gratings: a new sensor multiplexing tool

Optical fibre multiplexed sensors are used to make measurements at multiple, discrete locations, usually by sending optical signals between each measurement location and a…

Optical fibre sensing for intelligent monitoring using chromatic methodologies

A brief description is given of chromatic optical fibre sensing with particular reference to the monitoring of semiconductor plasma processing. Via this particular example it is…

Optical Fiber Sensors. Components and Subsystems. Volume Three

Optical Fiber Sensors. Applications, Analysis and Future Trends. Volume Four

Chemical and Biochemical Sensing with Optical Fibres and Waveguides

Monitor for heat-exchanger fouling

New minisensor

BFGoodrich Aerospace, Aircraft Sensors Division, achieves lowest drag ever on debris-guarded temperature sensor using computational fluid dynamics

Neural networks to provide guidance system for large-scale industrial laser cleaning system

New protocol chip allows simple implementation of an interbus loop interface

Precision encoder for micro-measurement

Hand-held storage scope has PC link

Portable maintenance and troubleshooting tool downloads wafer temperature data files to spreadsheets for off-line analysis

Sensor technology market expected to grow from US$3.8 billion to US$5.9 million

Remission scanner reduces wastage ... and improves quality

Sira takes a Martian view of fibre-optic components

Foresight to benefit

Growth expected to return to European utility meter markets

Emerging optics technologies account for an extraordinary 27.1 per cent growth rate

Move towards increasing use of automation to dominate weighing machinery markets

Internet page

New flow sensor

Floating disk gathers data

Laying it on the line - SR

World's first completely digital machine vision system and network

Non-destructive ultrasonic testing: increased speed and sensitivity

Pixel digital chips extend markets for cost-effective CMOS imaging

Low cost LVIT-Z transducer for space critical hydraulic/pneumatic applications

Diary

Fast, efficient input/output connection for multiple protocols

ControlNet International hits the ground running

Protimeter System 996 assists with Indy Car vehicles and Formula One Stewart Ford cars

Major victory for the UK's environmental industry

Single axis inclinometer

Editorial

GAMBICA announces MACIES forum

NPL and Sira INTErSECT

Profitability assured for European flow measurement instrument manufacturers

New ways to cut production costs with neural nets