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Title:	Smart sensors
Author(s):	Paul G. Ranky, (Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT/MERC), Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Multi-lifecycle Engineering Research Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Tel: 00 1 201 493 0521; Fax: 00 1 201 493 0522; E-mail: ranky@admin.njit.edu)
Citation:	Paul G. Ranky, (2002) "Smart sensors", Sensor Review, Vol. 22 Iss: 4, pp.312 - 318
Keywords:	Sensors, Standards
Article type:	Technical paper
DOI:	10.1108/02602280210444627 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Abstract:	The purpose of developing smart (analog and digital) sensors for networked machine/process monitoring, and other tasks, is to make them as easy and trouble free to deploy, program and maintain, as plugging a keyboard, or mouse into a computer. The IEEE 1451 smart transducer interface standards describe a set of open, common, and network-independent communication interfaces for smart transducers. (“Smartness” here means on-board data storage/processing capability, interfaced/ integrated with the analog and/or digital sensor.) Several companies and individuals involved in networked control systems of machines, and the measurement and control industries are developing these new standards, in the USA sponsored by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Technical Committee on Sensor Technology (TC-9), and the US Department of Commerce NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory.