Accelerometers, other sensors and calibration

Sensors for sound, light, fluid, movement, inertia and more may be fundamental to your product’s performance, so integrating the right sensor is important.

We understand the underlying parameters and constraints of each sensor technology and can guide you in practical ways:

• knowing what characteristics to look for and how to verify which sensor fits your application
• assessing the suitability of off-the-shelf or bespoke components to integrate sensors in your situation
• working with researchers to develop new sensors if your application is novel
• developing low noise electronics to maximise sensor performance
• developing software to enable accurate sensor timings.
• modelling and developing algorithms (see Signal processing)

We work with myriad sensor technologies, including:

• MEMs technologies (accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes).  We develop sensor models, calibration processes and rigs to overcome the long term bias drift, temperature drift and non-linearity inherent with these technologies, so we can achieve very high accuracy from  relatively low grade sensors.
• Fluidic based sensors. Often used in new devices for medical, agriculture and industrial applications, we work with leading research organisations like CSIRO to develop sensors for these new applications.
• Capacitive and resistive sensors. Our extensive experience with different excitation techniques ensures we can gain the highest performance for these sensors.

In addition, our extensive in-house test facilities let us model sensors to achieve the highest performance, and then to test and calibrate them.