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

English

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
History of Sensor6:46
ICT Technology3:23
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
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
Future Directions for Environmental Monitoring5:16

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.