List of sensors

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

Acoustic, sound, vibration

• Geophone
• Hydrophone
• Lace Sensor a guitar pickup
• Microphone

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

• Air flow meter
• Anemometer
• Flow sensor
• Gas meter
• Mass flow sensor
• Water meter

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
• TiaLinx sensor
• 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
• Impact 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
• Shock detector
• Shock data logger
• 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
  • Ground-penetrating radar
  • Synthetic aperture 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
• Organoleptic sensors
• 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

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