Consider an OEM’s plan to use a 3-axis accelerometer to measure the angular acceleration of a laptop. The concept is to use this information to determine if the laptop is falling, sliding or tipping ...

Usually, when you need to sense something in a project, the answers are straightforward. Want to sense air temperature? There’s a sensor for that. Particulate content in the air? There’s a sensor for ...

The wearable sensor market is growing at an annual compound rate of 17.8%. However, sensors have challenges, particularly in terms of miniaturization and power consumption. Several key parameters are ...

For a variety of reasons; navigation, hazard avoidance, and so on, it's desirable for a vehicle to be able to know its orientation with respect to the earth. A ship, submarine or airplane has six ...