• System Sensor is an American manufacturer of fire protection equipment. Headquartered in St. Charles, Illinois, System Sensor is a subsidiary of Honeywell...
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  • Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the...
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  • An oxygen sensor is an electronic component that detects the concentration of oxygen molecules in the air or a gas matrix such as in a combustion engine...
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    pressure sensor (MAP sensor) is one of the sensors used in an internal combustion engine's electronic control system. Engines that use a MAP sensor are typically...
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    system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes)...
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    A sensor is often defined as a device that receives and responds to a signal or stimulus. The stimulus is the quantity, property, or condition that is...
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    management systems to control the fuel injection or the ignition system timing and other engine parameters. Before electronic crank sensors were available...
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    Parking sensors are proximity sensors for road vehicles designed to alert the driver of obstacles while parking. These systems use either electromagnetic...
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    with one valve and one sensor for both rear wheels. The speed sensor for the rear wheels is located in the rear axle. This system provides individual control...
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  • now-defunct Electronic Systems sector. RMS was formerly known as Mission Systems and Sensors (LM MS2), and then as Mission Systems & Training (LM MST)....
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    A photoelectric sensor is a device used to determine the distance, absence, or presence of an object by using a light transmitter, often infrared, and...
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    In digital photography, the image sensor format is the shape and size of the image sensor. The image sensor format of a digital camera determines the...
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  • OIP Sensor Systems is an Israeli-owned Belgian defence and space company. The company was founded in Ghent in 1919 (1919) as Optique et Instruments de...
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    proximity sensor (often simply prox) is a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact. A proximity sensor often emits...
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  • Panasonic began publicizing the Micro Four Thirds system, a mirrorless camera system which used the same sensor size; by eliminating the reflex mirror, the...
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  • Sensor web is a type of sensor network that heavily utilizes the World Wide Web and is especially suited for environmental monitoring. OGC's Sensor Web...
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  • catadioptric sensor is a visual sensor that contains mirrors (catoptrics) and lenses (dioptrics), a combined catadioptric system. These are panoramic sensors created...
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    keeps pressurized and dry air inside the wave-guides. Rain sensors for irrigation systems are available in both wireless and hard-wired versions, most...
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    A mass (air) flow sensor (MAF) is a sensor used to determine the mass flow rate of air entering a fuel-injected internal combustion engine. The air mass...
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    Sensor fusion is a process of combining sensor data or data derived from disparate sources so that the resulting information has less uncertainty than...
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    vision system and the image sensor can be integrated into one single piece of hardware known as intelligent image sensor or smart image sensor. It contains...
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    A throttle position sensor (TPS) is a sensor used to monitor the throttle body valve position for the ECU of an engine. The sensor is usually located on...
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  • determination and control, communications, command and telemetry, and computer systems. Sensors refers to the electronic components on board a spacecraft. For engineers...
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    upgrade of the 230 FAA owned AWOS and former automated weather sensor systems (AWSS) systems to the AWOS-C configuration in 2017. The AWOS-C is the most...
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    valve lift systems The sensors used by the ECU include: accelerator pedal position sensor camshaft position sensor coolant temperature sensor crankshaft...
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    The Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) was a 50-foot (15.24 m) boom carried on board NASA's Space Shuttles. The boom was grappled by the Canadarm and served...
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    artificial tactile sensors). Tactile sensors are used in robotics, computer hardware and security systems. A common application of tactile sensors is in touchscreen...
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    A Hall effect sensor (also known as a Hall sensor or Hall probe) is any sensor incorporating one or more Hall elements, each of which produces a voltage...
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  • An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of...
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  • temperature sensor Fuel level sensor Fuel pressure sensor Knock sensor Light sensor MAP sensor Mass airflow sensor Oil level sensor Oil pressure sensor Omniview...
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