Though not as glamorous or attention-getting as the various sensors now packed into consumer products such as smart phones or tablets, the instrumentation world is where you'll find amazing diversity ...

Designed to measure a soil’s pH and moisture levels, the Gain Express ZD-06 pH Meter features a single probe and a top-mounted analog display. When unboxing, this model looked very simple, and we didn ...

Sensors are used in a variety of consumer and industrial markets from cell phones and tablets to precision detection, distance measurement, identification/image processing and process instrumentation ...

An example is the sensing of a rotary cam position. The oblong shape of the cam dictates use of a sensor able to detect different shapes and sizes. A simple prox sensor merely detects the presence or ...

Process instruments consist of two main components: a sensor and a transmitter. The sensor is sometimes part of the instrument assembly, as with some pressure instruments, but is more often separate, ...

Also known as “smart everything,” the Internet of Things (IoT) is grabbing headlines across the industry. As any great new technology, it comes wrapped in shiny paper that touts it as the solution for ...

What is an analog front-end (AFE)? Why use an AFE? AFE tradeoffs in energy-meter design. Sensors provide analog signals that need to be converted to digital values via analog-to-digital converters ...