List of sensors

Acoustic, sound, vibration

Geophone

Hydrophone

Lace Sensor a guitar pickup

Microphone

Automotive, transportation

Air flow meter

Air–fuel ratio meter

Blind spot monitor

Crankshaft position sensor,A crank sensor is an electronic device used in an internal combustion engine to monitor the position or rotational speed of the crankshaft.

Curb feeler, used to warn driver of curbs

Defect detector, used on railroads to detect axle and signal problems in passing trains

Engine coolant temperature sensor, or ECT sensor, used to measure the engine temperature

Hall effect sensor, used to time the speed of wheels and shafts, for example speedometer

Knock sensor, used to detect detonation in internal combustion engines

MAP sensor, Manifold Absolute Pressure, used in regulating fuel metering.

Mass flow sensor, or mass airflow (MAF) sensor, used to tell the ECU the mass of air entering the engine

Oxygen sensor, used to monitor the amount of oxygen in the exhaust

Parking sensors, used to alert the driver of unseen obstacles during parking maneuvers

Radar gun, used to detect the speed of other objects

Speedometer, used measure the instantaneous speed of a land vehicle

Speed sensor, used to detect the speed of an object

Throttle position sensor, used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine

Tire-pressure monitoring sensor, used to monitor the air pressure inside the tires

Torque sensor, or torque transducer or torquemeter measures torque (twisting force) on a rotating system.

Transmission fluid temperature sensor, used to measure the temperature of the transmission fluid

Turbine speed sensor (TSS), or input speed sensor (ISS), used to measure the rotational speed of the input shaft or torque converter

Variable reluctance sensor, used to measure position and speed of moving metal components

Vehicle speed sensor (VSS), used to measure the speed of the vehicle

Water sensor or water-in-fuel sensor, used to indicate the presence of water in fuel

Wheel speed sensor, used for reading the speed of a vehicle's wheel rotation

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

Fluorescent chloride sensors

Holographic sensor

Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer

Hydrogen sensor

Hydrogen sulfide sensor

Infrared point sensor

Ion-selective electrode

Nondispersive infrared sensor

Microwave chemistry sensor

Nitrogen oxide 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

Voltage detector

Flow, fluid velocity

Air flow meter

Anemometer

Flow sensor

Gas meter

Mass flow sensor

Water meter

Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles

Cloud chamber

Geiger counter

Neutron detection

Scintillation counter

Navigation instruments

Air speed indicator

Altimeter

Attitude indicator

Depth gauge

Fluxgate compass

Gyroscope

Inertial navigation system

Inertial reference unit

Magnetic compass

MHD sensor

Ring laser gyroscope

Turn coordinator

TiaLinx sensor

Variometer

Vibrating structure gyroscope

Yaw rate sensor

Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration

Auxanometer

Capacitive displacement sensor

Capacitive sensing

Flex sensor

Free fall sensor

Gravimeter

Gyroscopic sensor

Impact sensor

Inclinometer

Integrated circuit piezoelectric sensor

Laser rangefinder

Laser surface velocimeter

LIDAR

Linear encoder

Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT)

Liquid capacitive inclinometers

Odometer

Photoelectric sensor

Piezocapacitive sensor

Piezoelectric accelerometer

Position sensor

Position sensitive device

Rate sensor

Rotary encoder

Rotary variable differential transformer

Selsyn

Shock detector

Shock data logger

Stretch sensor

Tilt sensor

Tachometer

Ultrasonic thickness gauge

Variable reluctance sensor

Velocity receiver

Optical, light, imaging, photon

Charge-coupled device

CMOS sensor

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 tubes

Phototransistor

Photoelectric sensor

Photoionization detector

Photomultiplier

Photoresistor

Photoswitch

Phototube

Scintillometer

Shack-Hartmann

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

Piezocapactive 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 temperature detector

Resistance thermometer

Silicon bandgap temperature sensor

Special sensor microwave/imager

Temperature gauge

Thermistor

Thermocouple

Thermometer

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

Biochip

Biosensor

Capacitance probe

Capacitance sensor

Catadioptric sensor

Carbon paste electrode

Digital sensors

Displacement receiver

Electromechanical film

Electro-optical sensor

Fabry–Pérot interferometer

Fisheries acoustics

Image sensor

Image sensor format

Inductive sensor

Intelligent sensor

Lab-on-a-chip

Leaf sensor

Machine vision

Microelectromechanical systems

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

Transducer

Ultrasonic sensor

Video sensor

Visual sensor network

Wheatstone bridge

Wireless sensor network

Other sensors and sensor related properties and concepts

Actigraphy

Air pollution sensor

Analog image processing

Atomic force microscopy

Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric Sensor

Attitude control (spacecraft): Horizon sensor, Earth 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