List of sensors
This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.
Automotive, transportation
- Air–fuel ratio meter
- Blind spot monitor
- Crankshaft position sensor
- Curb feeler, used to warn driver of curbs
- Defect detector, used on railroads to detect axle and signal problems in passing trains
- Engine coolant temperature sensor, or ECT sensor, used to measure the engine temperature
- Hall effect sensor, used to time the speed of wheels and shafts
- MAP sensor, Manifold Absolute Pressure, used in regulating fuel metering.
- Mass flow sensor, or mass airflow (MAF) sensor, used to tell the ECU the mass of air entering the engine
- Oxygen sensor, used to monitor the amount of oxygen in the exhaust
- Parking sensors, used to alert the driver of unseen obstacles during parking maneuvers
- Radar gun, used to detect the speed of other objects
- Speedometer, used measure the instantaneous speed of a land vehicle
- Speed sensor, used to detect the speed of an object
- Throttle position sensor, used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine
- Tire-pressure monitoring sensor, used to monitor the air pressure inside the tires
- Torque sensor, or torque transducer or torquemeter measures torque (twisting force) on a rotating system.
- Transmission fluid temperature sensor, used to measure the temperature of the transmission fluid
- Turbine speed sensor (TSS), or input speed sensor (ISS), used to measure the rotational speed of the input shaft or torque converter
- Variable reluctance sensor, used to measure position and speed of moving metal components
- Vehicle speed sensor (VSS), used to measure the speed of the vehicle
- Water sensor or water-in-fuel sensor, used to indicate the presence of water in fuel
- Wheel speed sensor, used for reading the speed of a vehicle's wheel rotation
Chemical
- Breathalyzer
- Carbon dioxide sensor
- Carbon monoxide detector
- Catalytic bead sensor
- Chemical field-effect transistor
- Electrochemical gas sensor
- Electronic nose
- Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor sensor
- Fluorescent chloride sensors
- Holographic sensor
- Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer
- Hydrogen sensor
- Hydrogen sulfide sensor
- Infrared point sensor
- Ion-selective electrode
- Nondispersive infrared sensor
- Microwave chemistry sensor
- Nitrogen oxide 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
- MEMS magnetic field sensor
- Metal detector
- Planar Hall sensor
- Radio direction finder
- Voltage detector
Environment, weather, moisture, humidity
- Actinometer
- Bedwetting alarm
- Ceilometer
- Dew warning
- Electrochemical gas sensor
- Fish counter
- Frequency domain sensor
- Gas detector
- Hook gauge evaporimeter
- Humistor
- Hygrometer
- Leaf sensor
- Pyranometer
- Pyrgeometer
- Psychrometer
- Rain gauge
- Rain sensor
- Seismometers
- SNOTEL
- Snow gauge
- Soil moisture sensor
- Stream gauge
- Tide gauge
Flow, fluid velocity
Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles
- Bubble chamber
- Cloud chamber
- Geiger counter
- Neutron detection
- Particle detector
- Scintillation counter
- Scintillator
- Wire chamber
Navigation instruments
- Air speed indicator
- Altimeter
- Attitude indicator
- Depth gauge
- Fluxgate compass
- Gyroscope
- Inertial navigation system
- Inertial reference unit
- Magnetic compass
- MHD sensor
- Ring laser gyroscope
- Turn coordinator
- Variometer
- Vibrating structure gyroscope
- Yaw rate sensor
Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration
- Auxanometer
- Capacitive displacement sensor
- Capacitive sensing
- Free fall sensor
- Gravimeter
- Gyroscopic sensor
- Inclinometer
- 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
- Rate sensor
- Rotary encoder
- Rotary variable differential transformer
- Selsyn
- Tilt sensor
- Tachometer
- Ultrasonic thickness gauge
- Variable reluctance sensor
- Velocity receiver
Optical, light, imaging, photon
- Charge-coupled device
- 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
- Photodetector
- Photodiode
- Photomultiplier tubes
- Phototransistor
- Photoelectric sensor
- Photoionization detector
- Photomultiplier
- Photoresistor
- Photoswitch
- Phototube
- Scintillometer
- Shack-Hartmann
- 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
- 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 temperature detector
- 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
- Biochip
- Biosensor
- Capacitance probe
- Catadioptric sensor
- Carbon paste electrode
- Digital sensors
- Displacement receiver
- Electromechanical film
- Electro-optical 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
- Photoelasticity
- Quantum sensor
- Radar
- Radar tracker
- Sensor array
- Sensor fusion
- Sensor grid
- Sensor node
- Soft sensor
- Sonar
- Staring array
- Transducer
- Ultrasonic sensor
- Video sensor
- Visual sensor network
- Wheatstone bridge
- Wireless sensor network
Other sensors and sensor related properties and concepts
- Actigraphy
- 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
- Optical coherence tomography
- Phase unwrapping techniques
- 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