Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications

Sensor technologies are a rapidly growing area of interest in science and product design, embracing developments in electronics, photonics, mechanics, chemistry, and biology. Their presence is widespread in everyday life, where they are used to sense sound, movement, and optical or magnetic signals. The demand for portable and lightweight sensors is relentless in several industries, from consumer electronics to biomedical engineering to the military. Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications brings together the latest research in smart sensors technology and exposes the reader to myriad applications that this technology has enabled.

Organized into five parts, the book explores:

• Photonics and optoelectronics sensors, including developments in optical fibers, Brillouin detection, and Doppler effect analysis. Chapters also look at key applications such as oxygen detection, directional discrimination, and optical sensing.
• Infrared and thermal sensors, such as Bragg gratings, thin films, and microbolometers. Contributors also cover temperature measurements in industrial conditions, including sensing inside explosions.
• Magnetic and inductive sensors, including magnetometers, inductive coupling, and ferro-fluidics. The book also discusses magnetic field and inductive current measurements in various industrial conditions, such as on airplanes.
• Sound and ultrasound sensors, including underwater acoustic modem, vibrational spectroscopy, and photoacoustics.
• Piezoresistive, wireless, and electrical sensors, with applications in health monitoring, agrofood, and other industries.

Featuring contributions by experts from around the world, this book offers a comprehensive review of the groundbreaking technologies and the latest applications and trends in the field of smart sensors.

Table of Contents

Part I Photonic and Optoelectronics Sensors
Chapter 1 Optical Fiber Sensors: Devices and Techniques
Chapter 2 Microstructured and Solid Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors
Chapter 3 Optical Fiber Sensors and Interrogation Systems for Interaction Force Measurements in Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices
Chapter 4 Recent Advances in Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensors Based on the Brillouin Scattering Effect
Chapter 5 Silicon Microring Sensors
Chapter 6 Laser Doppler Velocimetry Technology for Integration and Directional Discrimination
Chapter 7 Vision-Aided Automated Vibrometry for Remote Audio–Visual Range Sensing
Chapter 8 Analytical Use of Easily Accessible Optoelectronic Devices: Colorimetric Approaches Focused on Oxygen Quantification
Chapter 9 Optical Oxygen Sensors for Micro- and Nanofluidic Devices
Chapter 10 Multidirectional Optical Sensing Using Differential Triangulation

Part II Infrared and Thermal Sensors
Chapter 11 Measurement of Temperature Distribution in Multilayer Insulations between 77 and 300 K Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor
Chapter 12 Thin Film Resistance Temperature Detectors
Chapter 13 The Influence of Selected Parameters on Temperature Measurements Using a Thermovision Camera
Chapter 14 Adaptive Sensors for Dynamic Temperature Measurements
Chapter 15 Dual-Band Uncooled Infrared Microbolometer
Chapter 16 Sensing Temperature inside Explosions

Part III Magnetic and Inductive Sensors
Chapter 17 Accurate Scanning of Magnetic Fields
Chapter 18 Low-Frequency Search Coil Magnetometers
Chapter 19 Inductive Coupling–Based Wireless Sensors for High-Frequency Measurements
Chapter 20 Inductive Sensor for Lightning Current Measurement Fitted in Aircraft Windows
Chapter 21 Technologies for Electric Current Sensors
Chapter 22 Ferrofluids and Their Use in Sensors

Part IV Sound and Ultrasound Sensors
Chapter 23 Low-Cost Underwater Acoustic Modem for Short-Range Sensor Networks
Chapter 24 Integrating Ultrasonic Standing Wave Particle Manipulation into Vibrational Spectroscopy Sensing Applications
Chapter 25 Wideband Ultrasonic Transmitter and Sensor Array for In-Air Applications
Chapter 26 Sensing Applications Using Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

Part V Piezoresistive, Wireless, and Electrical Sensors
Chapter 27 Piezoresistive Fibrous Sensor for On-Line Structural Health Monitoring of Composites
Chapter 28 Structural Health Monitoring Based on Piezoelectric Transducers: Analysis and Design Based on the Electromechanical Impedance
Chapter 29 Microwave Sensors for Non-Invasive Monitoring of Industrial Processes
Chapter 30 Microwave Reflectometry for Sensing Applications in the Agrofood Industry
Chapter 31 Wearable PTF Strain Sensors
Chapter 32 Application of Inertial Sensors in Developing Smart Particles