Sensors Features

High-tech wearables: a bovine perspective

High-tech wearables: a bovine perspective

Cambridge Industrial Design has created a GPS device to track the movement of livestock and to improve milk production. This high-tech collar brings the wearables revolution into the cowshed.

Pressure switches give quadriplegic sailor complete control

Pressure switches give quadriplegic sailor complete control

A customised 'Puff-and-Sip' pressure switch system is giving quadriplegic World Champion sailor Melvin Kinnear increased control of his servo-assisted Hansa Liberty sailing dinghy.

Jaguar hosts critical ride-height test run for Bloodhound SSC team

Jaguar hosts critical ride-height test run for Bloodhound SSC team

Micro-Epsilon's non-contact laser displacement sensors are reported to be performing "flawlessly" in Bloodhound SSC on-vehicle ride height tests at Jaguar Land Rover’s testing facilities in Warwickshire.

Taking human motion measurement out of the lab and into industry

Taking human motion measurement out of the lab and into industry

With the advent of inertial sensing technology, research can now be taken outside of the usual laboratory settings to track human movement outdoors, in factories or even in homes. Colleen Monaghan reports.

Tough sensors for agricultural machinery

Tough sensors for agricultural machinery

Where robotic agricultural machinery is concerned, sensors rule in more senses than one: Garford’s Robocrop precision guided weed control equipment applies position, pressure and temperature sensor technologies throughout.

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