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    This document provides a list of various types of sensors sorted by category. It includes over 100 different sensors across categories such as acoustic, automotive, chemical, electric current, environment, flow, ionizing radiation, navigation instruments, optical, position, pressure, proximity, sensor technology, speed, and others. The list provides the name of each sensor and some may include a brief description. It concludes by listing references for further information on sensor manufacturers.

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    List of sensors

    This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

    Acoustic, sound, vibration

    Geophone

    Hydrophone

    Microphone

    Pickup

    Seismometer

    Sound locator

    Automotive—

    Air flow meter

    Air–fuel ratio meter

    AFR sensor

    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

    Crankshaft position sensor

    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 (O2)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Air flow meter

    Anemometer

    Flow sensor

    Gas meter

    Mass flow sensor

    Water meter

    Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles

    Bubble chamber

    Cloud chamber

    Geiger counter

    Geiger–Müller tube

    Ionization chamber

    Gaseous ionization detectors

    Neutron detection

    Particle detector

    Proportional counter

    Scintillator

    Scintillation counter

    Semiconductor detector

    Thermoluminescent dosimeter

    Wire chamber

    Navigation instruments
    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

    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


    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

    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

    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

    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

    Pyrometer

    Proximity, presence

    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

    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–Pérot interferometer

    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

    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

    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

    Global List of Sensor Manufacturers (https://web.archive.org/web/20170707204959/htt


    p://robotic-material.com/Sensor-Manufacturers-Association.html) List of commercial
    sensor manufacturers from around the world

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