A pressure sensor measures pressure, typically of
gases or liquides.
Pressure is an expression of the force required to stop a fluid from
expanding, and is usually stated in terms of force per unit area. A
pressure sensor usually acts as a transducer; it generates a signal as a
function of the pressure imposed. For the purposes of this article,
such a signal is electrical.
Pressure sensors are used for control and monitoring in thousands of
everyday applications. Pressure sensors can also be used to indirectly
measure other variables such as fluid/gas flow, speed, water level, and
altitude. Pressure sensors can alternatively be called pressure transducers, pressure transmitters, pressure senders, pressure indicators, piezometers and manometers, among other names.
Pressure sensors can vary drastically in technology, design,
performance, application suitability and cost. A conservative estimate
would be that there may be over 50 technologies and at least 300
companies making pressure sensors worldwide.
There is also a category of pressure sensors that are designed to
measure in a dynamic mode for capturing very high speed changes in
pressure. Example applications for this type of sensor would be in the
measuring of combustion pressure in an engine cylinder or in a gas
turbine. These sensors are commonly manufactured out of piezoelectric materials such as quartz.
Some pressure sensors, such as those found in some ,traffic enforcement cameras
function in a binary (off/on) manner, i.e., when pressure is applied to
a pressure sensor, the sensor acts to complete or break an electrical
circuit. These types of sensors are also known as a pressure switch.
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