Sensors and Sensor Fundamentals

Name: Sensors and Sensor Fundamentals
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Exploring Technology and its Relationship with the Environment

Created byCarrie Moore

Last updated 5/2017

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What you'll learn

Participants will learn about the different types of sensors.
Participants will comprehend how sensors can be used within design to help with sustainable design.
Participants will understand the basic way sensors work in order to properly use them in design.

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 1h 0m total length

Introduction to Sensors5:30
Explore the basics of sensors and sensor fundamentals, how they convert physical input into electrical or optical signals, and how they differ from transducers, including moisture and air quality sensors.
History of Sensor6:46
Explore how sensors employ transducers and signal transformation to measure physical, chemical, and biological properties, from temperature and motion to glucose biosensors and MEMS-enabled wearables.
ICT Technology3:23
Explore how ICT technology enables wireless sensors and cloud-connected networks to provide real-time environmental monitoring, from air quality sensors on buildings to global data for informed decisions.
How Will Sensors Continue to Evolve?7:21
Sensors will become consumer-ready through commercialization, enabling environmental monitoring via smartphones for air and water quality, crowdsourced data, and IoT-driven smart cities that inform policy and personal health.
Sensing Environmental Challenges6:57
Explore how sensor technologies reveal environmental challenges and enable tracking of water quality, soil moisture, and crop conditions to support sustainable landscape design and responsible choices.
Types of Sensors8:50
Explore mechanical, optical, semiconductor, and electrochemical sensors, including strain gauges, accelerometers, and MEMS, and their applications in design, health wearables, and consumer electronics.
Environmental Monitoring with Sensors16:04
Explore how sensors enable environmental monitoring by detecting air, water, and soil pollutants at low concentrations, supporting scalable decisions for climate, water quality, and irrigation management.
Future Directions for Environmental Monitoring5:16
Explore future directions for environmental monitoring and the growing sensor market driving consumer interest. Show how mobile devices and sensors—from air quality to CO2 and humidity—enable interactive, climate-responsive landscape architecture.

Requirements

You should be able to use a PC at beginner level.
An interest in technology would be an advantage.
An appreciation for nature and landscape architecture will also be an advantage.

Description

A sensor is an electronic component or subsystem utilized for detecting modifications or events within its environment. A computer processor is one good example of sensor technology, also touch-sensitive elevator buttons known as tactile sensor. This innovation made a huge impact in the world of information and technology and almost every field or industry is using it for productivity and progress.

This course will talk about sensors and their fundamentals. Technology is not just for the design process, but is becoming an integrative part of Landscape Architecture Design. Sensors represent a tremendous opportunity to augment sustainable design and behavior for environmental monitoring. They can be used for a wide variety of sustainable design uses. This webinar discuses the basics of sensors, how they work, types of sensors, and how they can be used in design.

Who this course is for:

Individuals with passion for technology.
Professionals who want to gain knowledge about the latest trends in technology.