List of sensors

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

Acoustic, sound, vibration

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

Automotive, transportation

• Air-fuel ratio meter
• Crank 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 manoeuvres
• 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
• 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
• Hydrogen sensor
• Hydrogen sulfide sensor
• Infrared point sensor
• Ion-selective electrode
• Nondispersive infrared sensor
• Microwave chemistry sensor
• Nitrogen oxide sensor
• Olfactometer
• Optode
• Oxygen sensor
• Pellistor
• pH glass electrode
• Potentiometric sensor
• Redox electrode
• Smoke detector
• Zinc oxide nanorod sensor

Electric current, electric potential, magnetic, radio

• Ammeter
• Current sensor
• Galvanometer
• Hall effect sensor
• Hall probe
• Leaf electroscope
• Magnetic anomaly detector
• Magnetometer
• Metal detector
• Multimeter
• Ohmmeter
• Radio direction finder
• Telescope
• Voltmeter
• Voltage detector
• Watt-hour meter

Environment, weather, moisture, humidity

• Actinometer
• Bedwetting alarm
• Dew warning
• Fish counter
• Gas detector
• Hook gauge evaporimeter
• Hygrometer
• Leaf sensor
• Pyranometer
• Pyrgeometer
• Psychrometer
• Rain gauge
• Rain sensor
• Seismometers
• 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

Ionising 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 reference unit
• Magnetic compass
• MHD sensor
• Ring laser gyroscope
• Turn coordinator
• Variometer
• Vibrating structure gyroscope
• Yaw rate sensor

Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration

• Accelerometer
• Capacitive displacement sensor
• Free fall sensor
• Gravimeter
• Inclinometer
• Laser rangefinder
• Linear encoder
• Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT)
• Liquid capacitive inclinometers
• Odometer
• Piezoelectric accelerometer
• Position sensor
• Rotary encoder
• Rotary variable differential transformer
• Selsyn
• Sudden Motion Sensor
• Tilt sensor
• Tachometer
• Ultrasonic thickness gauge

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
• Nichols radiometer
• Fiber optic sensors
• Photodetector
• Photodiode
• Photomultiplier tubes
• Phototransistor
• Photoelectric sensor
• Photoionization detector
• Photomultiplier
• Photoresistor
• Photoswitch
• Phototube
• Proximity sensor
• 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
• Pirani gauge
• Pressure sensor
• Pressure gauge
• Tactile sensor
• Time pressure gauge

Force, density, level

• Bhangmeter
• Hydrometer
• Force gauge
• 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
• 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
• Temperature gauge
• Thermistor
• Thermocouple
• Thermometer

Proximity, presence

• Alarm sensor
• Motion detector
• Occupancy sensor
• Passive infrared sensor
• Reed switch
• Stud finder
• Triangulation sensor
• Touch switch
• Wired glove
• Doppler radar

Sensor technology

• Active pixel sensor
• Machine vision
• Biochip
• Biosensor
• Capacitance probe
• Catadioptric sensor
• Carbon paste electrode
• Displacement receiver
• Electromechanical film
• Electro-optical sensor
• Fabry–Pérot interferometer
• Image sensor
• Inductive sensor
• Intelligent sensor
• Lab-on-a-chip
• Leaf sensor
• Micro-sensor arrays
• RADAR
  • Ground-penetrating radar
  • Side looking radar
  • Synthetic aperture radar
• Sensor array
• Sensor grid
• Sensor node
• Soft sensor
• SONAR
• Staring array
• Transducer
• Ultrasonic sensor
• Video sensor
• Visual sensor network
• Wheatstone bridge
• Photoelasticity

Other sensors and sensor related properties and concepts

• Quantization
• Analog image processing
• Computational photography/cameras
  • Computational illumination
  • Computational optics
• Digital holography
• Frame grabbers
• Intensity sensors and their properties
  • Atomic force microscopy
  • Compressive sensing
  • High dynamic range imaging
  • Linear/Linescan sensors
  • Vidicon camera
  • Color cameras
  • Monochrome and color chip sensors
  • Non-standard intensity sensors
    • Hyperspectral sensors
    • Millimeter wave scanner
    • Multispectral satellite sensors
    • Nanoscale imaging
    • Ultraviolet sensors
    • X-ray
      • Digital radiography
      • Panoramic radiography
• Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMRI), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Diffusion tensor imaging
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• Optical coherence tomography
• Positron emission tomography (PET)
• Range sensors
  • Moire fringe
    • Moire deflectometry
    • Intensity
    • Color
    • Phase unwrapping techniques
  • Occluding contour analysis
  • Phase shift range sensors
  • Time-of-flight sensors
  • Stereo triangulation
  • Video rate range
    • Dense stereo-based
    • Structured light-based
      • Structured-light 3D scanner
• Sensor geometries
  • Regular
    • Cartesian grid
    • Hexagonal grid
    • Linear grid
  • Space varying
  • Irregular
  • Foveated
  • Viewfield
    • Omnidirectional
      • Catadioptric
      • Concave mirrors
      • Spherical mirrors
    • Panoramic
    • Small field
    • Wide-angle, Fisheye
• Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)