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The document discusses the uses of different types of sensors and their advantages and disadvantages. Sensors are used for monitoring and control applications like burglar alarms, scientific experiments, and automatic doors. Temperature, pressure, light, sound, humidity, and pH sensors are described along with examples of their uses.

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Sensors

The document discusses the uses of different types of sensors and their advantages and disadvantages. Sensors are used for monitoring and control applications like burglar alarms, scientific experiments, and automatic doors. Temperature, pressure, light, sound, humidity, and pH sensors are described along with examples of their uses.

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Sound Humidity/Moisture pH

Uses of Sensors Examples:


# Sensors are used in monitoring and control applications.

# When monitoring, the data is sent directly to some sort of a computer and is then
processed and used.

For A burglar climbs through a window and walks through an alarm’s light
example: sensor. The computer inside the alarm will pick up on the broken light signal
and use this information to sound the alarm
Sensors in burglar alarms can
automatically detect intruders.
# Sensors can also be used for a wide range of data collection and everyday
applications.

For
example: Taking measurements in scientific experiments
Measuring pollution in the atmosphere
Sensing the temperature in a room and using this to either turn a
heating system on or off
Automatic doors open themselves when they detect a person nearby.

# The table below specifies the uses of different types of sensors:

Automatic doors open when people are


Type of Sensor: Used For: detected nearby.

Temperature Automatic washing machines, Central heating systems,


Automatic greenhouses, Cookers.

Pressure Burglar alarm systems, Washing machines, Robotics,


Environmental monitoring.

Light Automatic greenhouses, Automatic doors, Burglar alarm


systems, Street lighting control.

Sound Burglar alarm systems, Voice recognition systems (like using a


voice command to start a car).

Humidity/Moisture Automatic greenhouses, Environmental monitoring, Agriculture,


A variety of sensors are used on automatic
Factories that manufacture items that can be ruined by too
greenhouses to keep plants in perfect conditions.
much air moisture (microchips etc).

pH Automatic greenhouses, Chemical manufacturing,


Environmental monitoring, Aquariums (wrong pH can kill fish).

Advantages/Disadvantages of
Sensors
# The table below highlights some of the main advantages and disadvantages of using pH sensors are used to monitor the acidity and
sensors: alkalinity level of aquariums (wrong levels can kill
fish).

Advantages Disadvantages

Readings taken using sensors are more accurate


than those taken by a human. Faulty sensors can give incorrect
results.
Sensors can monitor information constantly
(They don’t get tired like humans can). For example: if the sensors on a
car that help with reverse parking
Sensors can respond to information immediately become dirty they may not identify
(Burglar alarms goes off as soon as an intruder is an obstacle and cause you to crash
detected). into it.

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