Innovations in Smart Patches, Antioxidant Measurement, Magnetic Field Mapping, Detecting Indoor Location, Pavement Profiling, LiDAR, Gravity Sensors, Biosensors, and Wireless Sensor Networks

This issue of the Sensor Technology Opportunity Engine covers advancements in smart patches, antioxidant measurement, magnetic field mapping, detecting indoor location, pavement profiling, LiDAR, gravity Sensors, biosensors, and wireless sensor networks. Some of the innovations include portable biosensors for COVID-19 testing, sensors for lung tumor detection, noise cancellation sensors, gravity sensing, low-cost LiDAR, wireless sensor networks for IoT applications, wearable sensors, pressure sensors for indoor location, and machine vision.

Sensor Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) captures global sensor-related innovations and developments on a monthly basis. Innovations are directed toward developing smart and intelligent sensors with functionalities beyond sensing. Research focus areas include low power sensors (energy harvesting), industrial automation sensors (M2M, vision sensor), ubiquitous sensor (WSN, sensor fusion), smart sensors (wearables, quantified self), high sensitivity and smaller size (MEMS, nanosensors), and improved security (CBRNE, terahertz). The need for low power, smaller, lighter sensors with enhanced performance attributes and minimal false alarms is driving innovations in the sensors space.

The Sensors and Instrumentation cluster covers innovations pertaining to technologies such as wireless sensors and networks, energy harvesting, haptics and touch, MEMS and nanosensors, Terahertz, ubiquitous/smart sensors, CBRNE, quantified-self, sensor fusion, M2M communications, and drones.