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List of sensors
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This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.
[edit] Acoustic, sound, vibration
- Geophone
- Hydrophone
- Lace Sensor a guitar pickup
- Microphone
- Seismometer
[edit] Automotive, transportation
- Crank sensor
- Curb feeler
- Defect detector
- MAP sensor
- Parking sensors
- Parktronic
- Radar gun
- Speedometer
- Speed sensor
- Throttle position sensor
- Variable reluctance sensor
- Wheel speed sensor
[edit] Chemical
- Breathalyzer
- Carbon dioxide sensor
- Carbon monoxide detector
- Catalytic bead sensor
- Chemical field-effect transistor
- Electronic nose
- Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor sensor
- Hydrogen sensor
- Infrared point sensor
- Ion-selective electrode
- Nondispersive infrared sensor
- Microwave chemistry sensor
- Nitrogen oxide sensor
- Optode
- Oxygen sensor
- Pellistor
- pH glass electrode
- Potentiometric sensor
- Redox electrode
- Smoke detector
- Zinc oxide nanorod sensor
[edit] Electric current, electric potential, magnetic, radio
- Ammeter
- Current sensor
- Galvanometer
- Hall effect sensor
- Hall probe
- Leaf electroscope
- Magnetic anomaly detector
- Magnetometer
- Metal detector
- Multimeter
- Ohmmeter
- Voltmeter
- Watt-hour meter
[edit] Environment, weather
[edit] Flow
[edit] Ionising radiation, subatomic particles
- Bubble chamber
- Cloud chamber
- Geiger counter
- Neutron detection
- Particle detector
- Scintillation counter
- Scintillator
- Wire chamber
[edit] Navigation instruments
- Air speed indicator
- Altimeter
- Attitude indicator
- Fluxgate compass
- Gyroscope
- Inertial reference unit
- Magnetic compass
- MHD sensor
- Ring laser gyroscope
- Turn coordinator
- Variometer
- Vibrating structure gyroscope
- Yaw rate sensor
[edit] Position,angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration
- Accelerometer
- Inclinometer
- Laser rangefinder
- Linear encoder
- Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT)
- Liquid capacitive inclinometers
- Odometer
- Piezoelectric accelerometer
- Position sensor
- Rotary encoder
- Rotary variable differential transformer
- Selsyn
- Tachometer
[edit] Optical, light, imaging
- Charge-coupled device
- Colorimeter
- Infra-red sensor
- LED as light sensor
- Nichols radiometer
- Fiber optic sensors
- Photodiode
- Photomultiplier tubes
- Phototransistor
- Photoelectric sensor
- Photoionization detector
- Photomultiplier
- Photoresistor
- Photoswitch
- Phototube
- Proximity sensor
- Scintillometer
- Shack-Hartmann
- Wavefront sensor
[edit] Pressure,force,density,level
- Anemometer
- Bhangmeter
- Barograph
- Barometer
- Hydrometer
- Level sensor
- Load cell
- Magnetic level gauge
- Oscillating U-tube
- Pressure sensor
- Piezoelectric sensor
- Pressure gauge
- Strain gauge
- Torque sensor
- Viscometer
[edit] Thermal, heat, temperature
- Bolometer
- Calorimeter
- Heat flux sensor
- Infrared thermometer
- Microbolometer
- Microwave radiometer
- Net radiometer
- Resistance temperature detector
- Resistance thermometer
- Thermistor
- Thermocouple
- Thermometer
[edit] Proximity, presence
- Alarm sensor
- Bedwetting alarm
- Motion detector
- Occupancy sensor
- Passive infrared sensor
- Reed switch
- Stud finder
- Triangulation sensor
- Touch switch
- Wired glove
[edit] Sensor technology
- Active pixel sensor
- Machine vision
- Biochip
- Biosensor
- Capacitance probe
- Catadioptric sensor
- Carbon paste electrode
- Displacement receiver
- Electromechanical film
- Electro-optical sensor
- Image sensor
- Inductive sensor
- Intelligent sensor
- Lab-on-a-chip
- RADAR
- Sensor array
- Sensor node
- Soft sensor
- Staring array
- Transducer
- Ultrasonic sensor
- Video sensor
