List of sensors

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type. Transmission uid temperature sensor,

Turbine speed sensor

1 Acoustic, sound, vibration Variable reluctance sensor

Geophone Vehicle speed sensor

Hydrophone Water sensor

Lace Sensor a guitar pickup Wheel speed sensor

Microphone

Seismometer
3 Chemical
Breathalyzer
2 Automotive, transportation Carbon dioxide sensor

Air ow meter Carbon monoxide detector

Airfuel ratio meter Catalytic bead sensor

AFR sensor Chemical eld-eect transistor

Blind spot monitor Chemiresistor

Crankshaft position sensor Electrochemical gas sensor

Curb feeler Electronic nose

Defect detector Electrolyteinsulatorsemiconductor sensor

Engine coolant temperature sensor Fluorescent chloride sensors

Hall eect sensor Holographic sensor

Knock sensor Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer

MAP sensor Hydrogen sensor

Mass ow sensor Hydrogen sulde sensor

Oxygen sensor Infrared point sensor

Parking sensors Ion-selective electrode

Radar gun Nondispersive infrared sensor

Speedometer Microwave chemistry sensor

Speed sensor Nitrogen oxide sensor

Throttle position sensor Olfactometer

Tire-pressure monitoring sensor Optode

Torque sensor Oxygen sensor

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Ozone monitor Fish counter

Pellistor Frequency domain sensor

pH glass electrode Gas detector

Potentiometric sensor Hook gauge evaporimeter

Redox electrode Humistor

Smoke detector Hygrometer

Zinc oxide nanorod sensor Leaf sensor

Lysimeter
4 Electric current, electric poten- Pyranometer
tial, magnetic, radio Pyrgeometer

Current sensor Psychrometer

Daly detector Rain gauge

Electroscope Rain sensor

Electron multiplier Seismometers

Faraday cup SNOTEL

Galvanometer Snow gauge

Hall eect sensor Soil moisture sensor

Hall probe Stream gauge

Magnetic anomaly detector Tide gauge

Magnetometer

Magnetoresistance
6 Flow, uid velocity
MEMS magnetic eld sensor Air ow meter
Metal detector Anemometer
Planar Hall sensor Flow sensor
Radio direction nder Gas meter
Voltage detector Mass ow sensor

Water meter
5 Environment, weather, moisture,
humidity 7 Ionizing radiation, subatomic
Actinometer
particles
Air pollution sensor Cloud chamber
Bedwetting alarm Geiger counter
Ceilometer Geiger-Muller tube

Dew warning Ionisation chamber

Electrochemical gas sensor Neutron detection

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Proportional counter Laser rangender

Scintillation counter Laser surface velocimeter

Semiconductor detector LIDAR
Thermoluminescent dosimeter Linear encoder

Linear variable dierential transformer (LVDT)

8 Navigation instruments Liquid capacitive inclinometers

Air speed indicator Odometer

Altimeter Photoelectric sensor

Attitude indicator Piezocapacitive sensor

Depth gauge Piezoelectric accelerometer

Fluxgate compass Position sensor

Gyroscope Position sensitive device

Inertial navigation system Angular rate sensor

Inertial reference unit Rotary encoder

Magnetic compass Rotary variable dierential transformer

MHD sensor Selsyn

Ring laser gyroscope Shock detector

Turn coordinator Shock data logger

TiaLinx sensor Stretch sensor

Variometer Tilt sensor

Vibrating structure gyroscope Tachometer

Yaw rate sensor Ultrasonic thickness gauge

Variable reluctance sensor

9 Position, angle, displacement, Velocity receiver

distance, speed, acceleration
Auxanometer
10 Optical, light, imaging, photon
Capacitive displacement sensor Charge-coupled device

Capacitive sensing CMOS sensor

Flex sensor Colorimeter

Free fall sensor Contact image sensor

Gravimeter Electro-optical sensor

Gyroscopic sensor Flame detector

Impact sensor Infra-red sensor

Inclinometer Kinetic inductance detector

Integrated circuit piezoelectric sensor LED as light sensor

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Light-addressable potentiometric sensor Pressure sensor

Nichols radiometer Pressure gauge

Fiber optic sensors Tactile sensor

Optical position sensor Time pressure gauge

Thermopile laser sensors

Photodetector 12 Force, density, level

Photodiode Bhangmeter
Photomultiplier tubes Hydrometer
Phototransistor Force gauge and Force Sensor
Photoelectric sensor Level sensor
Photoionization detector Load cell
Photomultiplier Magnetic level gauge
Photoresistor Nuclear density gauge
Photoswitch Piezocapactive pressure sensor
Phototube Piezoelectric sensor
Scintillometer Strain gauge
Shack-Hartmann Torque sensor
Single-photon avalanche diode Viscometer
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

Transition edge sensor 13 Thermal, heat, temperature

Visible light photon counter
Bolometer
Wavefront sensor
Bimetallic strip

Calorimeter
11 Pressure
Exhaust gas temperature gauge
Barograph Flame detection
Barometer Gardon gauge
Boost gauge Golay cell
Bourdon gauge Heat ux sensor
Hot lament ionization gauge Infrared thermometer
Ionization gauge Microbolometer
McLeod gauge Microwave radiometer
Oscillating U-tube Net radiometer
Permanent Downhole Gauge Quartz thermometer
Piezometer Resistance thermometer

Pirani gauge Silicon bandgap temperature sensor

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Special sensor microwave/imager Fisheries acoustics

Temperature gauge
Image sensor
Thermistor
Image sensor format
Thermocouple

Thermometer Inductive sensor

Pyrometer Intelligent sensor

Lab-on-a-chip
14 Proximity, presence
Leaf sensor
Alarm sensor
Machine vision
Doppler radar

Motion detector Microelectromechanical systems

Occupancy sensor Photoelasticity

Proximity sensor
Quantum sensor
Passive infrared sensor
Radar
Reed switch

Stud nder Ground-penetrating radar

Synthetic aperture radar
Triangulation sensor
Radar tracker
Touch switch

Wired glove Stretch sensor

Sensor array
15 Sensor technology
Sensor fusion
Active pixel sensor
Sensor grid
Back-illuminated sensor
Sensor node
Biochip

Biosensor Soft sensor

Capacitance probe Sonar

Capacitance sensor
Staring array
Catadioptric sensor
Transducer
Carbon paste electrode

Digital sensors Ultrasonic sensor

Displacement receiver Video sensor

Electromechanical lm
Visual sensor network
Electro-optical sensor
Wheatstone bridge
Electrochemical fatigue crack sensor

FabryProt interferometer Wireless sensor network

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16 Other sensors and sensor re- Optical coherence tomography

lated properties and concepts Phase unwrapping techniques

Actigraphy Polygraph Truth Detection

Air pollution sensor Positron emission tomography

Analog image processing Push broom scanner

Atomic force microscopy Quantization (signal processing)

Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric Sensor Range imaging

Attitude control (spacecraft): Horizon sensor, Earth Scanning SQUID microscope

sensor, Sun sensor Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography
Catadioptric sensor (SPECT)

Chemoreceptor Smartdust

Compressive sensing SQUID, Superconducting quantum interference de-

vice
Cryogenic particle detectors
SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintil-
Dew warning lation thermal plasma analysis package

Diusion tensor imaging SSMIS, Special Sensor Microwave Imager /

Sounder
Digital holography
Structured-light 3D scanner
Electronic tongue
Sun sensor, Attitude control (spacecraft)
Fine Guidance Sensor
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
Flat panel detector
Thin-lm thickness monitor
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Time-of-ight camera
Glass break detector
TriDAR, Triangulation and LIDAR Automated
Heartbeat sensor Rendezvous and Docking
Hyperspectral sensors Unattended Ground Sensors
IRIS (Biosensor), Interferometric Reectance
Imaging Sensor
17 References
Laser beam proler

Littoral Airborne Sensor/Hyperspectral Global List of Sensor Manufacturers List of commercial

sensor manufacturers from around the world
LORROS

Millimeter wave scanner

Magnetic resonance imaging

Moire deectometry

Molecular sensor

Nanosensor

Nano-tetherball Sensor

Omnidirectional camera

Organoleptic sensors
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