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
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
- 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
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMRI), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Optical coherence tomography
- Positron emission tomography (PET)