Welcome to Sensirion Labs
Sensirion stands for innovation. To gather new ideas and potential applications, Sensirion employees are always warmly invited to submit their ideas. Therefore we have put up innovation teams, who are in charge of prototyping and testing these ideas fastly in so called "opportunity sprints".
Here you can find an overview of various potential applications using Sensirion sensors - get inspired!
Labs Overview
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - April 2019
With industry 4.0 advances in process automation and smart facility- and quality management, companies have the distinct advantage of being able to analyze their factories’ air quality parameters in real-time. Dust, fumes, VOCs and humidity fluctuations impact industrial manufacturing processes and ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - December 2018
Some respiratory applications use diaphragm based barometric absolute pressure sensors to estimate flow. Sensirion's thermal flow sensor is often selected for flow measurement applications, which demand virtually noise free pressure output signals or require precise measurements of ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - August 2018
Some high-end sleep quality monitors use inflatable mats tucked below the bed lining to measure respiration with an absolute pressure sensor. However, the inflatable mats can be damaged or leak due to normal wear. An alternative solution is the use of a not inflated mat with a highly sensitive pressure sensor ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - May 2018
A problem of many air conditioned environments is the missing user feedback. An individual's "perceived temperature" is not accounted for by most climate controls. In some applications (e.g. luxury cars) infrared sensors are used to measure a drivers' skin temperature to assess his thermal comfort. However, it is known, that wind chill effects can make people feel cold, even when ambient temperature remains unchanged. Therefore, skin temperature measurement alone ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - April 2018
If you like hot showers, you know the issue of a completely fogged mirror after leaving the shower. There are heated mirrors available, but they heat constantly and therefore waste a lot of energy. With a humidity sensor the heating can be automated and therefore energy consumption can be drastically reduced. Condensation on the mirror corresponds to a too high relative humidity. By a given absolute humidity of the air, only the temperature of the surface ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - April 2018
Some inhalation devices use puff sensors to count the number of puffs or detect inhalation. To enhance drug delivery a flow sensor could characterize volume, peak flow and duration of the inhalation ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - March 2018
A spirometer is used for lung function testing. The exhaled air volume is plotted against time to identify lung diseases such as COPD, asthma and others. It is a simple, quick, and painless way to check lungs and airways. Traditional analog sensing technologies with paddle wheels or turbines could be substituted by digital low cost sensing technologies, whithout sacrificing accuracy specifications ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - February 2018
Non-local breath detection separates electronics from the patient interface which is often a face mask or nasal connection. The separation from the patient requires sensing the patients breath through long and often thin tubing, for example as in the case of nasal cannulas used in supplying the patient with oxygen. The requirements on the sensors are then very high sensitivity at very low flows, a strength of the SDP3x differential pressure sensor ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - February 2018
Wearables measuring stress, emotions and moods are an emerging trend. Autonomous driving and man machine interfaces require knowledge of the human being's emotional state or comfort feeling. A very sensitive relative humidity sensor can detect the perspiration level. Thus, it is possible to detect stress, mood or emotions by measuring directly the sweat evaporated from a human's skin ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - February 2018
A recent Harvard study measuring cognitive function scores in a controlled office environment demonstrated significant higher cognitive function scores at 550 ppm CO2 level compared to 745 ppm CO2 level. The largest effects were seen for Crisis Response, Information Usage, and Strategy, all of which are indicators of higher-level cognitive function and decision making. Sensirion's CO2 sensor is based on dual-channel nondispersive infrared (NDIR) technology. CO2 concentration is measured as a function of infrared light absorption ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - February 2018
Milk fat concentration of cow milk is measured on a routine basis in the laboratory. A disposable quick test would allow instant verification of milk fat content during milking. Sensirion's concentration sensor allows precise measurement of such variations in thermal conductivity subject to variations of milk fat concentration ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - January 2018
Low power infrared (IR) sensors enable presence detection of users in front of smartphone or computer displays. A visible light camera or other components can be awakened upon detection of the presence of a user or other suitable actions may be taken.
Sensirion's thermal flow sensor technology can be used as thermopile based infrared sensor with on-chip signal conditioning and digital output ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - January 2018
Bluetooth low energy chipsets such as nRF51 & nRF52 series from Nordic Semiconductor or others consume a lot of energy especially when their radio is active in BLE beacon advertising mode. For certain use cases a low power relative humidity sensor or temperature sensor could detect ambient changes and act as trigger for a BLE beacon ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - January 2018
Conventional "non-smart" metered dose inhalers or dry powder inhalers against asthma, COPD and other diseases suffer from limitations such as unreliable and inconsistent drug delivery, lack of dose confidence and no compliance monitoring. Monitoring of inspiratory flow and volume in smart inhalers overcome these limitation, leading to less waste of costly drugs and improved patient outcomes ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - December 2017
In areas where the temperature drops close to freezing or lower during the night, the windshield of a car is very often covered with a layer of ice in the morning. Knowing if the windshield has ice allows a notification to be sent to the driver advising them to get to the car a little bit earlier to manually de-ice the windshield or, in a more automated car, the windshield to be automatically ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - November 2017
Wearables measuring heart rate is a growing trend. Mostly the pulse is measured with photoplethysmography (PPG) using LEDs and photo diodes. However, dirt on the optics, dark skin or tatoos can make PPG based pulse measurement on the wrist difficult. A very sensitive differential pressure sensor can detect the air wave generated by the pulse wave in the artery or carotid ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - November 2017
A surveillance camera will only detect intruders within its field of view. However, breaking into a house through a door or window will generate a pressure pulse, which can be detected with a sensitive pressure sensor. Also the opening and closing of doors generates an air pressure wave, which is reflected from the walls of the building. The frequency of reflection depends on ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - October 2017
Persons and objects cause air turbulences when moving around. A flow sensor can detect the direction of such air turbulences. Thus, it is possible to determine the direction of movement of persons and objects passing by the air flow sensor. This valuable information can be used to drive actions for building control or surveillance purposes. A smart home might turn on lightning ...
Author: Sensirion Innovations Team - October 2017
An Adblue concentration sensor supports monitoring of the Adblue tank in order to avoid refuelling with water, diesel or incorrect Adblue concentration. Sensirion's flow sensor is a semiconductor MEMS version of the traditional hot wire anemometer. The sensing principle is based on thermal conductivity through the liquid or gas in contact with the wetted sensor surface ...
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