Towards networked smart digital sensors: A review

Author

Ukil, Abhisek

Author_Institution

Integrated Sensor Syst. Group, ABB Corp. Res., Baden-Daettwil

fYear

2008

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1798

Lastpage

1802

Abstract

Sensors play pivotal role in instrumentation. With the rapid growth of instrumentation industry, today more and more focus is being laid on network configurations to connect sensors for intelligent and integrated sensing purposes. Besides analog signals, smart sensors can also send transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS) information containing sensor self-identification and description as digital signals via wired or wireless medium. These days more and more vendors are making their sensors TEDS compatible. This paper reviews about the key technology, utilization concept, relevant standards, available instrumentation. A possible extension to the TEDS compatible smart sensors could be to transmit digital signals at chip level.

Keywords

distributed sensors; intelligent sensors; analog signals; digital signals; instrumentation industry; integrated sensing; intelligent sensing; network configuration; networked smart digital sensor; sensor self identification; smart sensors; transducer electronic data sheet; Data acquisition; Instruments; Intelligent actuators; Intelligent sensors; Semiconductor device measurement; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Transducers; Wireless LAN; Wireless sensor networks; Digital sensor; Sensor network; Smart sensor; TEDS; Transducer electronic data sheet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2008. IECON 2008. 34th Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1767-4

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2008.4758227

Filename

4758227