https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sensors List of sensors From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search [ ] Contents * 1 Acoustic, sound, vibration * 2 Automotive * 3 Chemical * 4 Electric current, electric potential, magnetic, radio * 5 Environment, weather, moisture, humidity * 6 Flow, fluid velocity * 7 Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles * 8 Navigation instruments * 9 Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration * 10 Optical, light, imaging, photon * 11 Pressure * 12 Force, density, level * 13 Thermal, heat, temperature * 14 Proximity, presence * 15 Sensor technology * 16 Speed sensor * 17 Others * 18 References This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type. Acoustic, sound, vibration[edit] * Geophone * Hydrophone * Microphone * Pickup * Seismometer * Sound locator Automotive[edit] * Air flow meter * AFR sensor * Air-fuel ratio meter * Blind spot monitor * Crankshaft position sensor * Curb feeler * Defect detector * Engine coolant temperature sensor * Hall effect sensor * Wheel speed sensor * Airbag sensors * Automatic transmission speed sensor * Brake fluid pressure sensor * Camshaft position sensor * Cylinder Head Temperature gauge * Engine crankcase pressure sensor * Exhaust gas temperature sensor * Fuel level sensor * Fuel pressure sensor * Knock sensor * Light sensor * MAP sensor * Mass airflow sensor * Oil level sensor * Oil pressure sensor * Omniview technology * Oxygen sensor (O[2]) * Parking sensor * Radar gun * Radar sensor * Speed sensor * Throttle position sensor * Tire pressure sensor * Torque sensor * Transmission fluid temperature sensor * Turbine speed sensor * Variable reluctance sensor * Vehicle speed sensor * Water-in-fuel sensor * Wheel speed sensor * ABS sensors Chemical[edit] * Breathalyzer * Carbon dioxide sensor * Carbon monoxide detector * Catalytic bead sensor * Chemical field-effect transistor * Chemiresistor * Electrochemical gas sensor * Electronic nose * Electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor sensor * Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy * Fluorescent chloride sensors * Holographic sensor * Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer * Hydrogen sensor * Hydrogen sulfide sensor * Infrared point sensor * Ion-selective electrode * ISFET * Nondispersive infrared sensor * Microwave chemistry sensor * Nitrogen oxide sensor * Nondispersive infrared sensor * Olfactometer * Optode * Oxygen sensor * Ozone monitor * Pellistor * pH glass electrode * Potentiometric sensor * Redox electrode * Smoke detector * Zinc oxide nanorod sensor Electric current, electric potential, magnetic, radio[edit] * Current sensor * Daly detector * Electroscope * Electron multiplier * Faraday cup * Galvanometer * Hall effect sensor * Hall probe * Magnetic anomaly detector * Magnetometer * Magnetoresistance * MEMS magnetic field sensor * Metal detector * Planar Hall sensor * Radio direction finder * Test light * Voltage detector Environment, weather, moisture, humidity[edit] * Actinometer * Air pollution sensor * Bedwetting alarm * Ceilometer * Dew warning * Electrochemical gas sensor * Fish counter * Frequency domain sensor * Gas detector * Hook gauge evaporimeter * Humistor * Hygrometer * Leaf sensor * Lysimeter * Pyranometer * Pyrgeometer * Psychrometer * Rain gauge * Rain sensor * Seismometer * SNOTEL * Snow gauge * Soil moisture sensor * Stream gauge * Tide gauge * Weather radar Flow, fluid velocity[edit] * Air flow meter * Anemometer * Flow sensor * Gas meter * Mass flow sensor * Water meter Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles[edit] * Bubble chamber * Cloud chamber * Geiger counter * Geiger-Muller tube * Ionization chamber * Gaseous ionization detectors * Neutron detection * Particle detector * Proportional counter * Scintillator * Scintillation counter * Semiconductor detector * Thermoluminescent dosimeter * Wire chamber Navigation instruments[edit] * Airspeed indicator * Altimeter * Attitude indicator * Depth gauge * Fluxgate compass * Gyroscope * Inertial navigation system * Inertial reference unit * Machmeter * Magnetic compass * MHD sensor * Ring laser gyroscope * Sextant * Turn coordinator * Variometer * Vibrating structure gyroscope * Yaw-rate sensor Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration[edit] * Accelerometer * Auxanometer * Capacitive displacement sensor * Capacitive sensing * Flex sensor * Free fall sensor * Gravimeter * Gyroscopic sensor * Impact sensor * Inclinometer * Incremental encoder * Integrated circuit piezoelectric sensor * Laser rangefinder * Laser surface velocimeter * LIDAR * Linear encoder * Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) * Liquid capacitive inclinometers * Odometer * Photoelectric sensor * Piezoelectric accelerometer * Position sensor * Position sensitive device * Angular rate sensor * Rotary encoder * Rotary variable differential transformer * Selsyn * Shock detector * Shock data logger * Sudden Motion Sensor * Tilt sensor * Tachometer * Ultrasonic thickness gauge * Ultra-wideband radar * Variable reluctance sensor * Velocity receiver Optical, light, imaging, photon[edit] * Charge-coupled device * CMOS sensor * Angle-sensitive pixel * Colorimeter * Contact image sensor * Electro-optical sensor * Flame detector * Infra-red sensor * Kinetic inductance detector * LED as light sensor * Light-addressable potentiometric sensor * Nichols radiometer * Fiber optic sensors * Optical position sensor * Thermopile laser sensors * Photodetector * Photodiode * Photomultiplier * Photomultiplier tube * Phototransistor * Photoelectric sensor * Photoionization detector * Photomultiplier * Photoresistor * Photoswitch * Phototube * Scintillometer * Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor * Single-photon avalanche diode * Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector * Transition-edge sensor * Visible Light Photon Counter * Wavefront sensor Pressure[edit] * Barograph * Barometer * Boost gauge * Bourdon gauge * Hot filament ionization gauge * Ionization gauge * McLeod gauge * Oscillating U-tube * Permanent downhole gauge * Piezometer * Pirani gauge * Pressure sensor * Pressure gauge * Tactile sensor * Time pressure gauge Force, density, level[edit] * Bhangmeter * Hydrometer * Force gauge and Force Sensor * Level sensor * Load cell * Magnetic level gauge * Nuclear density gauge * Piezocapacitive pressure sensor * Piezoelectric sensor * Strain gauge * Torque sensor * Viscometer Thermal, heat, temperature[edit] * Bolometer * Bimetallic strip * Calorimeter * Exhaust gas temperature gauge * Flame detection * Gardon gauge * Golay cell * Heat flux sensor * Infrared thermometer * Microbolometer * Microwave radiometer * Net radiometer * Quartz thermometer * Resistance thermometer * Silicon bandgap temperature sensor * Special sensor microwave/imager * Temperature gauge * Thermistor * Thermocouple * Thermometer * Phosphor thermometry * Pyrometer Proximity, presence[edit] * Alarm sensor * Doppler radar * Motion detector * Occupancy sensor * Proximity sensor * Passive infrared sensor * Reed switch * Stud finder * Triangulation sensor * Touch switch * Wired glove Sensor technology[edit] * Active pixel sensor * Back-illuminated sensor * BioFET * Biochip * Biosensor * Capacitance probe * Capacitance sensor * Catadioptric sensor * Carbon paste electrode * Digital sensors * Displacement receiver * Electromechanical film * Electro-optical sensor * Electrochemical fatigue crack sensor * Fabry-Perot interferometer * Fiber Bragg grating * Fisheries acoustics * Image sensor * Image sensor format * Inductive sensor * Intelligent sensor * Lab-on-a-chip * Leaf sensor * Machine vision * Microelectromechanical systems * MOSFET * Photoelasticity * Quantum sensor * Radar + Ground-penetrating radar + Synthetic aperture radar + Radar tracker * Stretch sensor * Sensor array * Sensor fusion * Sensor grid * Sensor node * Soft sensor * Sonar * Staring array * Tapered element oscillating microbalance (TEOM) * Transducer * Ultrasonic sensor * Video sensor * Visual sensor network * Wheatstone bridge * Wireless sensor network Speed sensor[edit] Speed sensors are machines used to detect the speed of an object, usually a transport vehicle. They include: * Wheel speed sensors * Speedometers * Pitometer logs * Pitot tubes * Airspeed indicators * Piezo sensors (e.g. in a road surface) * LIDAR * Ground speed radar * Doppler radar * ANPR (where vehicles are timed over a fixed distance) * Laser surface velocimeters for moving surfaces Others[edit] * Actigraphy * Air pollution sensor * Analog image processing * Atomic force microscopy * Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric Sensor * Attitude control (spacecraft): Horizon sensor, Earth sensor, Sun sensor * Catadioptric sensor * Chemoreceptor * Compressive sensing * Cryogenic particle detectors * Dew warning * Diffusion tensor imaging * Digital holography * Electronic tongue * Fine Guidance Sensor * Flat panel detector * Functional magnetic resonance imaging * Glass break detector * Heartbeat sensor * Hyperspectral sensors * IRIS (Biosensor), Interferometric Reflectance Imaging Sensor * Laser beam profiler * Littoral Airborne Sensor/Hyperspectral * LORROS * Millimeter wave scanner * Magnetic resonance imaging * Moire deflectometry * Molecular sensor * Nanosensor * Nano-tetherball Sensor * Omnidirectional camera * Organoleptic sensors * Optical coherence tomography * Phase unwrapping techniques * Polygraph Truth Detection * Positron emission tomography * Push broom scanner * Quantization (signal processing) * Range imaging * Scanning SQUID microscope * Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) * Smartdust * SQUID, Superconducting quantum interference device * SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation thermal plasma analysis package * SSMIS, Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder * Structured-light 3D scanner * Sun sensor, Attitude control (spacecraft) * Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector * Thin-film thickness monitor * Time-of-flight camera * TriDAR, Triangulation and LIDAR Automated Rendezvous and Docking * Unattended Ground Sensors References[edit] * Global List of Sensor Manufacturers List of commercial sensor manufacturers from around the world * Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= List_of_sensors&oldid=1087489840" Categories: * Sensors * Electrical components * Technology-related lists Hidden categories: * Articles with short description * Short description is different from Wikidata Navigation menu Personal tools * Not logged in * Talk * Contributions * Create account * Log in Namespaces * Article * Talk [ ] English Views * Read * Edit * View history [ ] More Search [ ] [Search] [Go] Navigation * Main page * Contents * Current events * Random article * About Wikipedia * Contact us * Donate Contribute * Help * Learn to edit * Community portal * Recent changes * Upload file Tools * What links here * Related changes * Upload file * Special pages * Permanent link * Page information * Cite this page * Wikidata item Print/export * Download as PDF * Printable version Languages * l`rby@ * Catala * Espanol * frsy * hangugeo * hindii Edit links * This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 19:47 (UTC). * Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 ; additional terms may apply. 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