List of sensors
This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.
Acoustic, sound, vibration
Automotive
- Air flow meter
 - Air–fuel ratio meter
 - Blind spot monitor
 - Crankshaft position sensor (CKP)
 - Curb feeler
 - Defect detector
 - Engine coolant temperature sensor
 - Hall effect sensor
 - Wheel speed sensor
 - Airbag sensors
 - Automatic transmission speed sensor
 - Brake fluid pressure sensor
 - Camshaft position sensor (CMP)
 - Cylinder Head Temperature gauge
 - Engine crankcase pressure sensor
 - Exhaust gas temperature sensor
 - Fuel level sensor
 - Fuel pressure sensor
 - Knock sensor
 - Light sensor
 - MAP sensor
 - Mass airflow sensor
 - Oil level sensor
 - Oil pressure sensor
 - Omniview technology
 - Oxygen sensor (O2)
 - Parking sensor
 - Radar gun
 - Radar sensor
 - Speed sensor
 - Throttle position sensor
 - Tire pressure sensor
 - Torque sensor
 - Transmission fluid temperature sensor
 - Turbine speed sensor
 - Variable reluctance sensor
 - Vehicle speed sensor
 - Water-in-fuel sensor
 - Wheel speed sensor
 - ABS sensors
 
Chemical
- Breathalyzer
 - Carbon dioxide sensor
 - Carbon monoxide detector
 - Catalytic bead sensor
 - Chemical field-effect transistor
 - Chemiresistor
 - Electrochemical gas sensor
 - Electronic nose
 - Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor sensor
 - Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
 - Fluorescent chloride sensors
 - Holographic sensor
 - Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer
 - Hydrogen sensor
 - Hydrogen sulfide sensor
 - Infrared point sensor
 - Ion-selective electrode
 - ISFET
 - Nondispersive infrared sensor
 - Microwave chemistry sensor
 - Morphix Chameleon
 - Nitrogen oxide sensor
 - Nondispersive infrared sensor
 - Olfactometer
 - Optode
 - Oxygen sensor
 - Ozone monitor
 - Pellistor
 - pH glass electrode
 - Potentiometric sensor
 - Redox electrode
 - Smoke detector
 - Zinc oxide nanorod sensor
 
Electric current, electric potential, magnetic, radio
- Current sensor
 - Daly detector
 - Electroscope
 - Electron multiplier
 - Faraday cup
 - Galvanometer
 - Hall effect sensor
 - Hall probe
 - Magnetic anomaly detector
 - Magnetometer
 - Magnetoresistance
 - MEMS magnetic field sensor
 - Metal detector
 - Planar Hall sensor
 - Radio direction finder
 - Test light
 - Voltage detector
 
Environment, weather, moisture, humidity
- Actinometer
 - Air pollution sensor
 - Bedwetting alarm
 - Ceilometer
 - Dew warning
 - Electrochemical gas sensor
 - Fish counter
 - Frequency domain sensor
 - Gas detector
 - Hook gauge evaporimeter
 - Humistor
 - Hygrometer
 - Leaf sensor
 - Lysimeter
 - Pyranometer
 - Pyrgeometer
 - Psychrometer
 - Rain gauge
 - Rain sensor
 - Seismometer
 - SNOTEL
 - Snow gauge
 - Soil moisture sensor
 - Stream gauge
 - Tide gauge
 - Weather radar
 
Flow, fluid velocity
Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles
- Bubble chamber
 - Cloud chamber
 - Geiger counter
 - Geiger–Müller tube
 - Ionization chamber
 - Gaseous ionization detectors
 - Neutron detection
 - Particle detector
 - Proportional counter
 - Scintillator
 - Scintillation counter
 - Semiconductor detector
 - Thermoluminescent dosimeter
 - Wire chamber
 
Navigation instruments
- Airspeed indicator
 - Altimeter
 - Attitude indicator
 - Depth gauge
 - Fluxgate compass
 - Gyroscope
 - Inertial navigation system
 - Inertial reference unit
 - Machmeter
 - Magnetic compass
 - MHD sensor
 - Ring laser gyroscope
 - Sextant
 - Turn coordinator
 - Variometer
 - Vibrating structure gyroscope
 - Yaw-rate sensor
 
Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration
- Accelerometer
 - Auxanometer
 - Capacitive displacement sensor
 - Capacitive sensing
 - Displacement sensor (general article)
 - Flex sensor
 - Free fall sensor
 - Gravimeter
 - Gyroscopic sensor
 - Impact sensor
 - Inclinometer
 - Incremental encoder
 - Integrated circuit piezoelectric sensor
 - Laser rangefinder
 - Laser surface velocimeter
 - LIDAR
 - Linear encoder
 - Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT)
 - Liquid capacitive inclinometers
 - Odometer
 - Photoelectric sensor
 - Piezoelectric accelerometer
 - Position sensor
 - Position sensitive device
 - Angular rate sensor
 - Rotary encoder
 - Rotary variable differential transformer
 - Selsyn
 - Shock detector
 - Shock data logger
 - Sudden Motion Sensor
 - Tilt sensor
 - Tachometer
 - Ultrasonic thickness gauge
 - Ultra-wideband radar
 - Variable reluctance sensor
 - Velocity receiver
 - Magnetic sensor
 
Optical, light, imaging, photon
- Charge-coupled device
 - CMOS sensor
 - Angle–sensitive pixel
 - Colorimeter
 - Contact image sensor
 - Electro-optical sensor
 - Flame detector
 - Infra-red sensor
 - Kinetic inductance detector
 - LED as light sensor
 - Light-addressable potentiometric sensor
 - Nichols radiometer
 - Fiber optic sensors
 - Optical position sensor
 - Thermopile laser sensors
 - Photodetector
 - Photodiode
 - Photomultiplier
 - Photomultiplier tube
 - Phototransistor
 - Photoelectric sensor
 - Photoionization detector
 - Photomultiplier
 - Photoresistor
 - Photoswitch
 - Phototube
 - Scintillometer
 - Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor
 - 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
 - Piezometer
 - Pirani gauge
 - Pressure sensor
 - Pressure gauge
 - Tactile sensor
 - Time pressure gauge
 
Force, density, level
- Bhangmeter
 - Hydrometer
 - Force gauge and Force Sensor
 - Level sensor
 - Load cell
 - Magnetic level gauge
 - Nuclear density gauge
 - Piezocapacitive pressure sensor
 - Piezoelectric sensor
 - Strain gauge
 - Torque sensor
 - Viscometer
 
Thermal, heat, temperature
- Bolometer
 - Bimetallic strip
 - Calorimeter
 - Exhaust gas temperature gauge
 - Flame detection
 - Gardon gauge
 - Golay cell
 - Heat flux sensor
 - Infrared thermometer
 - Microbolometer
 - Microwave radiometer
 - Net radiometer
 - Quartz thermometer
 - Resistance thermometer
 - Silicon bandgap temperature sensor
 - Special sensor microwave/imager
 - Temperature gauge
 - Thermistor
 - Thermocouple
 - Thermometer
 - Phosphor thermometry
 - Pyrometer
 
Proximity, presence
- Alarm sensor
 - Doppler radar
 - Motion detector
 - Occupancy sensor
 - Proximity sensor
 - Passive infrared sensor
 - Reed switch
 - Stud finder
 - Triangulation sensor
 - Touch switch
 - Wired glove
 
Sensor technology
- Active pixel sensor
 - Back-illuminated sensor
 - BioFET
 - Biochip
 - Biosensor
 - Capacitance probe
 - Capacitive sensing
 - Catadioptric sensor
 - Carbon paste electrode
 - Digital sensors
 - Displacement receiver
 - Electromechanical film
 - Electro-optical sensor
 - Electrochemical fatigue crack sensor
 - Fabry–Pérot interferometer
 - Fiber Bragg grating
 - Fisheries acoustics
 - Image sensor
 - Image sensor format
 - Inductive sensor
 - Intelligent sensor
 - Lab-on-a-chip
 - Leaf sensor
 - Machine vision
 - Microelectromechanical systems
 - MOSFET
 - Photoelasticity
 - Quantum sensor
 - Radar
 - Stretch sensor
 - Sensor array
 - Sensor fusion
 - Sensor grid
 - Sensor node
 - Soft sensor
 - Sonar
 - Staring array
 - Tapered element oscillating microbalance (TEOM)
 - Transducer
 - Ultrasonic sensor
 - Video sensor
 - Visual sensor network
 - Wheatstone bridge
 - Wireless sensor network
 - Through-beam edge sensor
 
Speed sensor
Speed sensors are machines used to detect the speed of an object, usually a transport vehicle. They include:
- Wheel speed sensors
 - Speedometers
 - Pitometer logs
 - Pitot tubes
 - Airspeed indicators
 - Piezo sensors (e.g. in a road surface)
 - LIDAR
 - Ground speed radar
 - Doppler radar
 - ANPR (where vehicles are timed over a fixed distance)
 - Laser surface velocimeters for moving surfaces
 
Others
- Actigraphy
 - Air pollution sensor
 - Analog image processing
 - Atomic force microscopy
 - Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric Sensor
 - Attitude control (spacecraft): Horizon sensor, Earth sensor, Moon sensor, Satellite Sensor, Sun sensor
 - Catadioptric sensor
 - Chemoreceptor
 - Compressive sensing
 - Cryogenic particle detectors
 - Dew warning
 - Diffusion tensor imaging
 - Digital holography
 - Electronic tongue
 - Fine Guidance Sensor
 - Flat panel detector
 - Functional magnetic resonance imaging
 - Glass break detector
 - Heartbeat sensor
 - Hyperspectral sensors
 - IRIS (Biosensor), Interferometric Reflectance Imaging Sensor
 - Laser beam profiler
 - Littoral Airborne Sensor/Hyperspectral
 - LORROS
 - Millimeter wave scanner
 - Magnetic resonance imaging
 - Moire deflectometry
 - Molecular sensor
 - Nanosensor
 - Nano-tetherball Sensor
 - Omnidirectional camera
 - Organoleptic sensors
 - Optical coherence tomography
 - Phase unwrapping techniques
 - Polygraph Truth Detection
 - Positron emission tomography
 - Push broom scanner
 - Quantization (signal processing)
 - Range imaging
 - Scanning SQUID microscope
 - Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)
 - Smartdust
 - SQUID, Superconducting quantum interference device
 - SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation thermal plasma analysis package
 - SSMIS, Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder
 - Structured-light 3D scanner
 - Sun sensor, Attitude control (spacecraft)
 - Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
 - Thin-film thickness monitor
 - Time-of-flight camera
 - TriDAR, Triangulation and LIDAR Automated Rendezvous and Docking
 - Unattended Ground Sensors
 
References
- Global List of Sensor Manufacturers List of commercial sensor manufacturers from around the world