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Case Study: Detecting and Locating Underground Wires with Red Pitaya
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: When looking around, we see how cities keep getting bigger and denser, adding one construction layer on top of the other. What the eye can't see, though, is the network of underground infrastructure ...
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Case Study: On-line Optical Measurements on Aircraft Turbines
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: After some years of travelling with restrictions and additional rules, we have gone back to taking planes as if they were buses, without wondering too often what's under the hood. ...
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Independent Study Highlighting Red Pitaya's Strong Points for Academia
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: If a well-reputed technological university decides to buy some equipment at standard prices and then submit it to independent comparative tests, then the resulting conclusions obviously carry more ...
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Evolution Aerospace Test Stands Allow Simulation under True-to-life Conditions
From: Froude, Inc.Description: There is an increasing expectation that the development of new aero engines requires test bench experience under all feasible flight conditions to maximize test efficiency on the bench while ...
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Industrial Gas Tank Monitoring: Bulk Cryogenic Tank Level Monitoring
From: Micro Sensor Co., Ltd.Description: Oxygen cleaned differential pressure transmitters and pressure transmitters are widely used for monitoring the liquid level and pipeline in the cryogenic gas tank. Cleaning standards shall be ...
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Smart Homes: Modernizing Your Daily Tasks
Description: The implementation of multiple devices is creating homes of the future for many homeowners. 7 in 10 US households own a smart device, with 18% of homes owning more than 2. People use smart devices to ...
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Differential Pressure Transmitter Applied in Oilfield Single Well Oil Extraction
From: Micro Sensor Co., Ltd.Description: When the oil is discharged from a single well in an oil field, the extracted crude oil contains water, and the water content is not fixed which results in inaccurate measurement for the crude oil ...
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eTech Journal Issue 4- Industrial Sensors Smart Sensing
From: Newark, An Avnet CompanyDescription: This issue of e-TechJournal, delves into the technologies that are changing the way manufacturers design and build their products. ...
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What's The Difference between Pressure Transmitter and Pressure Gauge?
From: Micro Sensor Co., Ltd.Description: Pressure transmitters and pressure gauges are widely used in fluid pressure measurement and control in industrial processes. But what is the difference between pressure transmitters and pressure ...
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Case Study: An SDRLab 122-16 Controlling Low-field MRI Applications
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Industrial manufacturers of MRI scanners usually implement tailormade setups in their devices, but there are also other, generic and hardware-agnostic concepts for use in a wide range of scanners. ...
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Case Study: High-precision LiDAR System, Working in High Background Light Conditions
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: The race for the development of autonomous driving technology is on. Obviously, this technology needs to be foolproof and 100% safe, which demands ultraprecise instruments that guarantee optimum ...
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Case Study: How Red Pitaya Helped MIT Physics Students During the COVID Pandemic
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: It´s not always easy to find concrete educational projects where a STEMlab plays the main role. Ironically, the COVID crisis offered a good opportunity to highlight one of these projects. The story ...
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Case Study: How Silicon Microgravity used Red Pitaya Boards for Development of Digital Hardware
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: It's clear that the people working at SMG are very satisfied with the versatile Red Pitaya boards, especially with regard to their value for money and versatility, since they allow them to achieve ...
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Case Study: Laser Monitoring of Methane Emissions with Red Pitaya
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Red Pitaya gives LongPath a robust and cost-effective platform for advanced data acquisition and signal processing algorithms that guarantee their customers the most accurate continuous monitoring ...
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Case Study: Red Pitaya Finding its Way in the World of Nuclear Fusion
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility, located in Padova (Italy), discovered the added value Red Pitaya STEMlab boards could bring to their SPIDER experiment. ...
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Red Pitaya at the Core of SMU's Signal Processing Classes
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: When COVID and lockdowns struck in 2020, SMU was one of the universities that did not sit idly but went into action and organized their Digital Signal Processing classes to be run remotely using Red ...
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Student Projects: Red Pitaya Based Low-cost SDR Platform
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: In this project we propose a large-bandwidth low-cost SDR architecture based on a Red Pitaya board. The components of this architecture are chosen so that the bottleneck in the transmit/receive chain ...
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Student Projects: Top 5 Student Projects Achieved with Red Pitaya
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Explore the projects that students from around the world are creating, and get inspired for your own ...
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Student Projects: Using a Red Pitaya Device as a PID Controller for a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Saeid Behjati, a PhD student at Leiden University is developing a new Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) as a part of his PhD program. ...
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Why Use ARM Chip Instead of X86 in Signal Converters
Description: Why does the CAN-to-Ethernet converter use an ARM chip instead of an X86 chip? There are two main reasons. First of all, the ARM architecture chip is used to process the data of the CAN network ...
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Tire Mounted Sensor for Automotive and Tire OEMs Provides New Data to Enhance Safety and Performance
From: Sensata TechnologiesDescription: Attached directly to a tire's inner liner, Sensata's new Tire Mounted Sensors deliver additional sensing capabilities, tire identification and lifetime data continuity that provide benefits to drivers ...
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Sustaining Smiles with Smart Energy Monitoring
From: Brainboxes LimitedDescription: With the current market volatility within the energy system causing unprecedented cost rises globally, it's never been more vital for businesses to monitor their power consumption. Brainboxes Smart ...
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Types of CAN Fiber Optic Module
Description: Unlike other CAN converters, there are many types of CAN fiber optic module devices, why? Because it has too many subdivision methods that can mainly be divided into four categories. At the same time, ...
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Monitor Working Status of the Car with Phone
Description: We know that there are several buses in a car to connect various devices, such as CAN bus, LIN bus, MOST bus and so on. The above types of buses have different characteristics, different speeds, and ...
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Enabling New Levels of Performance and Safety in Magnetic Sensors with xMR
Description: Electrification in automotive and industrial applications is changing sensing requirements and creating new demands. As automotive and industrial applications advance toward greater autonomy, demand ...
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The Bridge Between Buses: CANbus to Modbus Gateway Device
Description: Engineers who has been in CAN bus field all know although CAN bus has ultra high baud rate, stable and fast speed transmission and a number of collected node devices, it still could not replace the ...
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The Difference Between High-Speed CAN and Low-Speed, Fault-Tolerant CAN
Description: Do you know the difference between high-speed CAN and low-speed, fault-tolerant CAN? Recently, Engineer Li from a company in Guangzhou contacted us and said that he found our USBCAN analyzer could not ...
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2D LiDAR using Time-of-Flight Sensors
From: Newark, An Avnet CompanyDescription: This article will discuss the basic concept of ToF, its benefits, and an application example: 2D LiDAR using ToF Sensors. ...
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How Do Electrochemical Sensors Work?
Description: How electrochemical sensors work and some of the common applications they serve. ...
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How to Implement 2D LiDAR using Time-of-Flight Sensors
From: Newark, An Avnet CompanyDescription: How to use ToF Sensor to make 2D LiDAR ...
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Application Brief: Oil & Gas - 2880-OWI Oil/Water Interface Transmitter
From: Arjay EngineeringDescription: Oil production facility installs Oil/Water Interface Transmitters for easier wastewater monitoring ...
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Application Brief: Pharmaceutical - 2852-CAP Capacitance Monitor
From: Arjay EngineeringDescription: Pharmaceutical company in Germany installs Capacitance Monitor for automated monitoring solution ...
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How Integrating Sensors Positions Hydraulic Equipment for Success
Description: Sensors have taken off in a big way in all manners of mobile and industrial equipment. As component costs have decreased and the manufacturing processes behind this technology have become more ...
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Lidar Effective Range
Description: The effective range of a lidar system depends on the sensitivity of its photoreceiver and the strength of optical signal returns as a function of target range. Parameters affecting signal-return ...
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Do You Use Ultra-Low Power Sensors to Extend Battery Life?
From: Newark, An Avnet CompanyDescription: Reducing power consumption in battery-powered devices ...
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Optan UVC LEDs Enable Fluorometers for Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring
From: Turner Designs, Inc.Description: Fluorometers are used for real-time environmental monitoring because they are specific, require no reagents and can detect extremely low concentrations of compounds. Common examples of environmental ...
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What Requirements Should Automation Technology Meet in the Food Industry?
From: Automation24, Inc.Description: The sensor and automation components used in food processing must meet prescribed food processing standards and high technical standards. ...
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Case Study: Compact Plug-and-Play Optical Frequency Reference for Doppler-Free Spectroscopy of Rb Vapor
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: In a previous blog article, we described how Aaron Strangfeld and his coauthors integrated a STEMLab125-14 unit in a Rb-based optical frequency reference for a nanosatellite application. This project ...
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Case Study: The Red Pitaya STEMlab as the cornerstone of a radar kit for hands-on distance learning
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Markus Gardhill and Tushar Tandon have developed a radar system using affordable, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, easy to assemble and connect, with built-in monitoring features. ...
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What is a Spectrum Analyzer
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: We use spectrum analyzers when we are interested in the spectral composition of a signal, which can be difficult to see from the waveform that an oscilloscope would display. ...
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BCI with the Red Pitaya STEMLab 125-10
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: In this work, a EEGNet-based architecture has been implemented on the FPGA of the Xilinx Zynq 7010 system on-chip (SoC), the core of the Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-10. ...
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Red Pitaya as a PID controller
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Among other applications, Red Pitaya can also be used as a PID controller. Its MIMO PID controller consists of 4 standard PID controllers with P, I, and D parameter settings and integrator reset ...
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The Red Pitaya STEMlab as the Cornerstone of a Radar Kit for Hands-on Distance Learning
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Markus Gardhill and Tushar Tandon have developed a radar system using affordable, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, easy to assemble and connect, with built-in monitoring features. ...
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Micro Sensor and LEEG Join Forces for a More Inspiring Future
From: Micro Sensor Co., Ltd.Description: On July 7th, 2022, Micro Sensor and LEEG Instruments successfully signed an equity restructuring of the strategic cooperation agreement. ...
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An ECG Shield with Red Pitaya
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Tony Bauer has made a shield to transform Red Pitaya into an electrocardiogram. The shield amplifies the heartbeat signal and filters out the noise to produce an ECG graph as the one you can see ...
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Demonstrating Effects of Signal Sampling with Red Pitaya
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: This is a guest blog post by doc. dr. Matija Pirc. In his class at the University of Ljubljana, he prepared an exercise showing the effects of the sampling process on the spectrum of a sampled signal ...
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Red Pitaya at the Center of a 16-Channel Electrical Impedance Tomography System
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Imaging techniques have become everyday instruments in the medical world, providing us with valuable information regarding our physical condition and possible health problems. Despite their impressive ...
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Faraday's Law of Induction
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: Faraday’s law of induction is a basic law of electromagnetism. When an electric circuit is moved in the neighborhood of a magnet, a current is induced in the circuit during the movement. ...
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How to Choose a Dyno
From: Froude, Inc.Description: Dynamometers are available in many types and sizes to fit a very wide variety of uses. To know which dynamometer is best, certain criteria must first be determined. Your Go Power Systems Sales ...
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"One Does Not Simply Build a Quality Sensor"
From: Smith Systems, Inc.Description: Designing and manufacturing a sensor is not something that one can just "do". In relation to much of the machinery on which sensors are installed, these items are small, and quite often overlooked as ...
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Start Your Digital Transformation Journey
From: SICKDescription: Manufacturers are on a digital transformation journey toward the smart factory. Smart manufacturing is a flexible system that can self-optimize performance across a network, self-adapt to and learn ...
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Case Study: Red Pitaya in Digital Design Education at University of Ljubljana
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Red Pitaya is great platform for teaching the design of digital signal processing systems at our Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where we introduce Xilinx Vivado and practice digital design in VHDL ...
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When to Use Closed-loop Control Instead of Open-loop Control
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: Control operations can be either closed loop or open loop. The key difference is feedback. An open-loop control system (also known as a non-feedback system) acts completely on the basis of input; the ...
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Eddy Current - Skin, and Proximity Effects
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: MAQ20 PID Control in a Home Heating Application In this application, a MAQ20 Data Acquisition and Control System along with DSCA Signal Conditioning Modules, standard sensors, and actuators control ...
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Sony Exmor vs STARVIS Sensors; A Detailed Comparison
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: What are Sony Exmor, Exmor R, STARVIS, and Exmor RS sensors? ...
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Medical Device Sterilization: Methods Explained, Compared & Contrasted
From: ES Systems S.A.Description: What are the 3 types of sterilization & the methods of sterilization of medical instruments? Find out the main medical device sterilization methods. ...
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CASE STUDY: A Compact Optical Frequency Reference for Nanosatellites
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: In their article "A Prototype of a Compact Rubidium-Based Optical Frequency Reference for Operation on Nanosatellites", Aaron Strangfeld and coauthors describe the design, assembly and testing of an ...
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CASE STUDY: Digital Electronics Based on a Red Pitaya Platform for Coherent Fiber Links
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Coherent fiber links are becoming the gold standard for frequency transfer, with recent improvements allowing statistical uncertainty around 10-20 for optical links in the range of thousands of ...
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CASE STUDY: DR-RINS: Digital Real-time Relative Intensity Noise Suppressor for Pump-probe Spectroscopy and Microscopy
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Transient absorption and stimulated Raman scattering microscopy are techniques that sense tiny perturbations to a probe laser beam, induced by a pump beam, to create their images, which makes them ...
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CASE STUDY: Miceli: A Point-of-Care Impedance Platelet Aggregometer Prototype
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: In their article The MICELI (MICrofluidic, ELectrical, Impedance): Prototyping a Point-of-Care Impedance Platelet Aggregometer, Y. Roka-Moiia et al. provide an example of this development. Their work ...
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CASE STUDY: Nuclear Warhead Verification
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Making trusted measurements on nuclear warheads to confirm their authenticity without revealing design information remains one of the major challenges for nuclear verification. ...
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CASE STUDY: Red Pitaya at the Heart of a 3D Robotic Ultrasound System
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Nowadays, ultrasound (US) imaging is a widely used technique in medical applications. Acoustic signal bursts, at frequency ranges well above the human hearing limit, are reflected by the different ...
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CASE STUDY: Red Pitaya, an Open-source Software Measurement and Control Board used in Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitor for NASA
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: After having been under the radar of the public for eye some years, space travel is back in the news again. People who get a "been there - done that" feeling when thinking of going back to the Moon, ...
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Portable Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT)
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: A portable Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) system has been developed with Red Pitaya STEMlab for biomedical applications ...
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Red Pitaya for fish counting
From: Red Pitaya, d.o.o.Description: Red pitaya plays a big part in an IoT active acoustic system for fish monitoring with direct application in biodiversity preservation near hydropower plants and dams. ...
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How to Set Up and Install OXY-LC Interface Electronics with SST's Zirconia 02 Probe?
Description: To operate an SST zirconia O2 probe, it is necessary to have interface electronics to power and control the sensor. For customers that do not want to purchase the electronics, please read our ...
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How Accurate is an LVDT
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: Accuracy in the context of this definition is the sum of the errors due to Hysteresis, Repeatability and Linearity. Hysteresis is a measure of the ability of a sensor to return to a starting value ...
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How to Choose the Temperature for my LVDT Sensor
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: The temperature selection details the upper and lower operating temperature for our range of LVDT sensors. The operating temperature range of most of our LVDTs is suitable for most industrial ...
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Why Edge Computing?
From: Belden Inc.Description: With a networking landscape that’s rapidly shifting, the industry is staring down the inevitable rise of edge computing. Recently, we’ve heard questions about this approach to data ...
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Cross Point Switch using MAQ20-DORLY20 Module
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: The MAQ20 relay module, MAQ20-DORLY20, contains 20 relays that may be wired as a 4x5 cross point switch as shown in the figure 1 below. The numbers 1-40 represent the 40 spring terminals of the ...
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Automation Technology for the Food Industry
From: Automation24, Inc.Description: The food industry is one of the most important branches of industry. Food must meet high quality standards, be inexpensive, fast as well as available in large quantities. ...
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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the Value of Collecting Data
From: Belden Inc.Description: Industry buzzwords can be tricky. Although they're frequently used to engage in conversation about trends and innovations, the terms are constantly changing and can mean different things to different ...
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Application Note OEM, Food Packaging Equipment
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Red Lion's FlexEdge enables secure data brokering by leveraging both MQTT and OPC-UA in the same application, reducing system complexity and increasing data visibility. ...
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A System for Measurement and Analysis of Aircraft Noise
From: Convergence InstrumentsDescription: The Metroplex Overflight Noise Analysis (MONA) project seeks to measure, analyze, and archive the ground noise generated by aircraft overflights and to provide accurate and actionable data for a ...
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New 400 kHz Current Sensors Enable More Sustainable Designs in Switch-Mode Power Designs
Description: This article will discuss two new innovative approaches to measure currents up to 600 A in PCB: a near-lossless Hall-based current sensor with an integrated conductor and a non-invasive standalone ...
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HVAC Applications
Description: HVAC sensors are essential for maintaining set conditions within indoor environments. These innovative technology pieces allow HVAC equipment to measure environmental factors and adjust accordingly ...
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Industrial Storage Tank Level Monitoring Solution
From: Micro Sensor Co., Ltd.Description: Remote monitoring through digital monitoring equipment is a method that not only provides data support for fuel supply manufacturers, optimizes fuel delivery routes, but also improves production ...
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How Robust is an LVDT
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: All RDP transducers are housed in a robust stainless steel housing which provides both mechanical protection for the LVDT sensor as well as shielding the internal coils and electronics from external ...
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How to Choose the Output for my LVDT Sensor
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: An LVDT is a transformer and requires a specific type of signal conditioning amplifier of which there are many in our product range. Having the amplifier remote from the LVDT transducer means that the ...
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How to Test a Sensor with a Multimeter
From: ES Systems S.A.Description: It’s difficult to tell whether a transmitter is working well or not, especially when on the field, and even if you know something is not right, it might still be difficult to know how to test a ...
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How to Choose the Environment for my LVDT Sensor
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: RDP LVDT transducers are very robust and reliable but it is important to select the correct LVDT for your environment. ...
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How to Choose the Mechanical Type for my LVDT sensor
From: RDP ElectrosenseDescription: The armature assembly (the moving part) is a completely separate component from the body of the LVDT and when correctly installed are the most robust and reliable. These are the best types to use if ...
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Future-Proof Automation Technology
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Digitalisation is changing the industry and thus also the requirements on automation technology. In an interview with KEM Konstruktion Martin Buck, Chairman of the Board, IFM-Stiftung & Co. KG, ...
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ifm Spotted: Inductive Sensors in Meersburg-Constance
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Again and again, the eye-catching orange draws the attention of ifm colleagues to the company's own products. This time a colleague discovered inductive ifm sensors on a ferry on Lake Constance. ...
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Signal Conditioner Life
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: In order to understand MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) it is best to start with something else -- something for which it is easier to develop an intuitive feel. This other concept is failure rate ...
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Rock-a-Bye Baby, Brought To You by the Internet of Things
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: And now there's the Snoo, a $1,500 AI-robotic bassinet that helps babies (and their folks) get some much-needed sleep. The Snoo wasn't around when I was a new dad, but - although I'm just reading ...
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How Do I Choose the Right Photoelectric Sensor for My Application?
From: Automation24, Inc.Description: Photoelectric sensors are among the most versatile sensors on the market. They are used where non-contact position measurement is crucial and provide a reliable solution for numerous applications. ...
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How to Select, Apply Process Sensors
From: Automation24, Inc.Description: When specifying process sensors, several common factors need to be considered such as the operating environment, mounting options and cable connections. ...
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Predicting the End of Unplanned Downtime
From: Automation24, Inc.Description: Any unscheduled downtime will cause a major headache for engineers in the food and beverage manufacturing sector, but predictive maintenance can be a remedy ...
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What are the Critical Measurements Needed in Inert Glove Boxes?
Description: What are the critical measurements needed in inert glove boxes and how do you make them? ...
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What is Hydrocarbon Dew Point - And How is it Measured?
Description: This article discusses one of the most difficult to measure, but crucial, parameters: hydrocarbon dew point ...
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Reducing the Severity of Wildfires Using LiDAR Technology
From: SICKDescription: According to the National Interagency Coordination Center, 10.3 million acres of land in the United States were lost due to wildfires in 2020, which is the second most acreage impacted since the year ...
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Smart Intralogistics Without Muting Sensors
From: SICKDescription: TGW Robotics, based in Stephanskirchen, Bavaria, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Austrian TGW Logistics Group. As specialists for robotics applications connected to logistics processes, the ...
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Using Solar Energy to Optimize Processes in Solar Power Plants
From: SICKDescription: Depending on a system’s capacity and location, solar power plants can supply entire regions with environmentally-friendly energy all day long. Operating entities strive to work with a high ...
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Coaxial Flow Calorimeter
From: TEGAM, Inc.Description: How Accurate Are Your RF Measurements? Accurate power measurements on RF signals require a thorough knowledge of the varying nature of the signals under test ...
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Fermenting a Homebrew Automation System
From: Automationdirect.comDescription: Back in 2012, Jason Wilson toured a local brewery, and soon thereafter became a homebrew enthusiast. He was fascinated by the detailed science and math underlying the production process, and quickly ...
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Limitations of AM Leveling Loops
From: TEGAM, Inc.Description: Characterizing RF power sensors is commonly done using a direct comparison system which employs a resistive RF power splitter with a power standard connected to a power meter. The microwave source is ...
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Measuring RF Power Sensor Nonlinearity
From: TEGAM, Inc.Description: RF power sensor linearity is a commonly misunderstood topic. To obtain the most accurate power measurements, though, you need to understand what linearity is, the sources of nonlinearity, and how to ...
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Measuring Temperature Compensating Thermistors with the TEGAM Model 1830A RF Power Meter
From: TEGAM, Inc.Description: This document explains the theory behind measuring power with a dual bridge Power Meter such as the Agilent 432A and shows the reader how to simplify the measurement with the TEGAM 1830A RF Power ...
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Microwave Receiver Linearity Verification
From: TEGAM, Inc.Description: The linearity of an RF or microwave receiver is typically measured at its intermediate frequency. Nonlinearities at high signal levels due to mixer compression, and at low levels due to noise, are ...