List of sensors

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

Acoustic, sound, vibration

 * Geophone
 * Hydrophone
 * Microphone
 * Pickup
 * Seismometer
 * Sound locator

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

 * Air flow meter
 * Anemometer
 * Flow sensor
 * Gas meter
 * Mass flow sensor
 * Water meter

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
 * 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
 * Ground-penetrating radar
 * Synthetic aperture radar
 * Radar tracker
 * 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

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