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The future of sensor technology with TE Connectivity
are used now in a ‘drone hunter’. It’s a drone that hunts and captures other drones using a large net. Our sensor monitors the pressure cylinder that is used to deploy the capture net.
What are some examples of value- added capability?
Where a standard or platform sensor is not the optimum solution, we are the engineer’s engineer. Our broad portfolio lets us choose the best technology for an application where others might try to shoehorn a technology into an application.
Our extensive experience in developing highly engineered sensors for severe environments enables us to develop explicit and implicit product and environmental specifi cations with our customers, then design, develop and qualify sensor solutions for a wide range of mission-critical applications.
A good example of this can be found in applications requiring position sensing. LVDT technology is often seen as the solution. But it creates complexity for engineering designs in that it requires alternating current. Our engineers can often recommend lower-cost, more reliable potentiometers that only require DC current and so reduce design complexity.
What advances will we see in the next fi ve years and beyond in sensor technology?
Many of the advances will be incremental. We will continue to see progress along the axes of miniaturisation, performance and price for digital and wireless sensing. There will also be an increasing emphasis on smart sensing, using on-board sensor capabilities to analyse data and transmit ’vital data’ rather than simply ’big data’.
Sensor proliferation and sensor fusion will continue to accelerate as security within the IoT improves and makes it safer to transmit important data. That will enhance remote operating capabilities. While that is happening, the application of sensors to consumer devices will drive down cost and improve performance. In turn that will lead to adoption in other industries and open up applications that were previously unrealistic from a cost standpoint.
From a technology standpoint, nano- sensing offers a promising path to a true disruption, as do sensing polymers and advances in spectroscopy based on optical sensors.
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