sensors

IRISH scientists have built a graphene-based biosensor capable of rapidly detecting diseases, including infectious ones like cholera, and cancer.

Advancements in IC technologies have made sensors small enough to be capable of changing the way we interact with technology.

A recent study by IDTechEx found that several emerging technologies will offer disruptive new features.

OKAO Vision is Omron’s image sensing technology capable of recognising the intentions and conditions of people through face recognition, estimation of facial expressions,and gaze estimation.

Researchers integrated a pulse oximetry sensor into a typical construction helmet to allow continuous and noninvasive monitoring of workers’ blood gas saturation levels.

Two-thirds of Codan’s Minelab metal detectors is sold in Africa and civil unrest in that region is dampening sales.

In the rehabilitation field, lightweight devices equipped with an IMU show promise in the measurement of movement as they can be attached to a patient to measure movement without limiting motion.

Networked sensors quietly and continuously gather data, after which it is aggregated and sent wirelessly to a data center.

By using special multi-sensor array technology the Indoor Navigation Project will enable people who are blind to sense their surroundings beyond the cane’s tip.

Technologies which will come under the umbrella of the agreement include manufacturing technologies and sensors.

VICTORIA-based Universal Biosensors has been awarded the 2013 Manufacturing Hall of Fame Technology in Manufacturing Award.

SINGAPOREAN researchers from Nanyang Technological University have developed a new camera sensor made from graphene which is a thousand times more sensitive to light than current sensors.

IDTECHEX Research says the electroactive polymer (EAP) market will be worth US$245 million in 2013.

OPTICAL power detectors are in line for a boost, as researchers in the US demonstrate a spray-on mixture of carbon nanotubes and ceramic which absorbs laser light without getting damaged.

RESEARCHERS from Dartmouth College have invented a second-hand tobacco smoke sensor which informs users, in real time, of the amount of nicotine vapour molecules in the air.

SINGAPORE-based Hoestar has licensed technology from A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) covering wireless piezoelectric sensors for remote machine health diagnosis.

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL system (MEMS) motion sensors are poised for double-digit growth in 2013, driven by smartphones and tablets.

RESEARCHERS from Technische Universität München (TUM) have developed a new generation of image sensors which are manufactured by spraying electrically conductive plastics onto the sensor surface.

DUKE University engineers have developed a metamaterial sensor which can image scenes without using lenses.

A UNIVERSITY of Sydney PhD candidate is using a smartphone and sensor to gather information about heart rate variability for research.