Sensor Types
This sensor detects objects without physical contact.
What is a proximity sensor?
The name for the fourth industrial revolution.
What is Industry 4.0?
Smart sensors used here monitor soil quality and weather conditions.
What is agriculture / smart farming?
The physical signal a sensor converts into an electrical output (e.g. heat, light, movement).
What is a physical parameter / stimulus?
This Assessment is due at the end of Module 8.
What is Assessment 2?
Used to ensure ovens in a factory don't exceed safe operating limits
What is a temperature sensor
Smart sensors are described as key components of this global network of connected devices.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
In this industry, smart sensors enable quality control on assembly lines.
What is manufacturing?
The term for a sensor's ability to anticipate equipment failure before it happens.
What is predictive analytics / predictive maintenance?
The authors of the 2021 journal article studied in Module 8.
Who are Ullo and Sinha?
Monitors the force exerted by fluid in a hydraulic pipeline.
What is a pressure sensor?]
This smart sensor capability allows it to detect faults and adjust its own accuracy.
What is self-calibration / self-assessment?
Smart sensors in this sector monitor patient vitals and medical equipment.
What is healthcare?
A device that receives a signal from a sensor and physically acts on the environment.
What is an actuator?
The name of one type of robot task described in Ullo & Sinha (2021) for smart agriculture.
What is harvesting / weeding?
Prevents tanks from overflowing by tracking how full they are.
What is a level sensor?
Smart sensors use this branch of computer science to enable predictive analytics.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Drones fitted with smart sensors are used here to capture large-scale field data.
What is remote sensing?
The ability of a smart sensor to respond to environmental changes immediately, without delay.
What is real-time monitoring / response?
This section of Assessment 2 requires visuals as a key requirement and makes up 25% of the Assessment mark.
What is the Solution Design?
This sensor type can measure multiple physical parameters simultaneously
What is a smart/multi-sensing sensor?
Unlike basic sensors, smart sensors can do this in addition to measuring physical data.
What is process / communicate / respond adaptively?
Autonomous vehicles rely on smart sensors for this core safety function.
What is environment detection / obstacle sensing?
The ability of a smart sensor to automatically adjust for accuracy and drift over time
what is self-calibration?
According to Ullo & Sinha, this smart industry reduces waste and improves yieldthrough data-driven insights.
What is smart agriculture?