Description
Book SynopsisFrom simple thermistors to intelligent silicon microdevices with powerful capabilities to communicate information across networks, sensors play an important role in such diverse fields as biomedical and chemical engineering to wireless communications.
Trade Review"...this book provides a good basis for anyone entering or studying the field of smart sensors...not only...for the inexperienced...but also...very useful to those with some experience." (
IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, December 2002)
Table of ContentsPreface.
List of Abbreviations and Symbols.
Introduction.
Smart Sensors for Electrical and Non-Electrical, Physical and Chemical Variables: Tendencies and Perspectives.
Converters for Different Variables to Frequency-Time Parameters of the Electric Signal.
Data Acquisition Methods for Multichannel Sensor Systems.
Methods of Frequency-to-Code Conversion.
Advanced and Self-Adapting Methods of Frequency-to-Code Conversion.
Signal Processing in Quasi-Digital Smart Sensors.
Digital Output Smart Sensors with Software-Controlled Performances and Functional Capabilities.
Multichannel Intelligent and Virtual Sensor Systems.
Smart Sensor Design at Software Level.
Smart Sensor Buses and Interface Circuits.
Future Directions.
References.
Appendix A: What is on the Sensors Web Portal?
Glossary.
Index.
