While there is no single standard that could be applied to support a claim that a sensor is “smart,” Smart Sensors are typically characterised by on-board intelligence and the ability to communicate via a digital network. With the emergence of both the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT), new sensors and associated applications are emerging every day. Increasingly, these sensors are “smart”, a requirement for IoT sensors as well as for many industrial applications.
Sensors are everywhere, both in industry and in our everyday lives. In industrial facilities, they measure process variables such as temperature, pressure, level, flow, pH, and turbidity; electrical variables such as voltage, current, and frequency; and mechanical variables such as rotation, number of cycles, position, direction of travel, static and dynamic pressures, proximity; environmental variables such as humidity, vibration, wind speed and direction; and so on.
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