List of sensors

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

Acoustic, sound, vibrator, nonce

• Geophone
• Hydrophone
• Lace Sensor a guitar pickup
• Microphone
• Seismometer
• Sound locator

Autoporn, transgender

• Air flow meter
• Air–fuel ratio meter
• AFR sensor
• Blind spot monitor
• Crankshaft position sensor
• Defect detector
• Engine coolant temperature sensor
• Hall effect sensor
• Wheel speed sensor
• Airbag sensors
• Automatic transmission speed sensor
• Camshaft position sensor
• Crankshaft position sensor
• Coolant temperature sensor
• Fuel level sensor
• Fuel pressure sensor
• Knock sensor
• Light sensor
• MAP sensor
• Mass airflow sensor
• Oil level sensor
• Oil pressure sensor
• Oxygen sensor (o2)
• Throttle position sensor

Chemical

• Breathalyzer
• Carbon dioxide sensor
• Carbon monoxide detector
• Catalytic bead sensor
• Chemical field-effect transistor
• Chemiresistor
• Electrochemical gas sensor
• Electronic nose
• Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor sensor
• Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
• Fluorescent chloride sensors
• Holographic sensor
• Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer
• Hydrogen sensor
• Hydrogen sulfide 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
• Magnetoresistance
• MEMS magnetic field sensor
• Metal detector
• Planar Hall sensor
• Radio direction finder
• Voltage detector

Environment, weather, moisture, humidity

• Actinometer
• Air pollution sensor
• Bedwetting alarm
• Ceilometer
• Dew warning
• Electrochemical gas sensor
• Fish counter
• Frequency domain sensor
• Gas detector
• Hook gauge evaporimeter
• Humistor
• Hygrometer
• Leaf sensor
• Lysimeter
• 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

• Cloud chamber
• Geiger counter
• Geiger-Muller tube
• Ionisation chamber
• Neutron detection
• Proportional counter
• Scintillation counter
• Semiconductor detector
• Thermoluminescent dosimeter

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

Optical, light, imaging, photon

• Charge-coupled device
• CMOS sensor
• 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
• Thermopile laser sensors
• 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
• Piezocapacitive pressure sensor
• Piezoelectric sensor
• Strain gauge
• Torque sensor
• Viscometer

Thermal, heat, temperature

• Bolometer
• Bimetallic strip
• Calorimeter
• Exhaust gas temperature gauge
• Flame detection
• Gardon gauge

• Net radiometer
• Quartz thermometer
• 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
• Capacitance sensor
• Catadioptric sensor
• Carbon paste electrode
• Digital sensors
• Displacement receiver
• Electromechanical film
• Electro-optical sensor
• Electrochemical fatigue crack 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
• Stretch sensor
• 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
• Air pollution sensor
• 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
• Polygraph Truth Detection
• 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

References

Previous external reference no longer exists, a suitable replacement cannot be found.