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.
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.
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.
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.
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.