This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

Acoustic, sound, vibration

• Acoustic radiometer

• Geophone

• Hydrophone

• Microphone

• Pickup

• Seismometer

• Sound locator

Automotive

• Air flow meter

• Air–fuel ratio meter

• Blind spot monitor

• Crankshaft position sensor (CKP)

• Curb feeler

• Defect detector

• Engine coolant temperature sensor

• Hall effect sensor

• Wheel speed sensor

• Airbag sensors

• Automatic transmission speed sensor

• Brake fluid pressure sensor

• Camshaft position sensor (CMP)

• Cylinder Head Temperature gauge

• Engine crankcase pressure sensor

• Exhaust gas temperature sensor

• Fuel level sensor

• Fuel pressure sensor

• Knock sensor

• Light sensor

• MAP sensor

• Mass airflow sensor (MAF)

• Oil level sensor

• Oil pressure sensor

• Omniview technology

• Oxygen sensor (O2)

• Parking sensor

• Radar gun

• Radar sensor

• Speed sensor

• Throttle position sensor

• Tire pressure sensor

• Torque sensor

• Transmission fluid temperature sensor

• Turbine speed sensor

• Variable reluctance sensor

• Vehicle speed sensor

• Water-in-fuel sensor

• Wheel speed sensor

• ABS sensors

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

• Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy

• Fluorescent chloride sensors

• Holographic sensor

• Hydrocarbon dew point analyzer

• Hydrogen sensor

• Hydrogen sulfide sensor

• Infrared point sensor

• Ion-selective electrode

• ISFET

• Nondispersive infrared sensor

• Nose

• Microwave chemistry sensor

• Morphix Chameleon

• Nitrogen oxide sensor

• Nondispersive infrared 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

• Test light

• Voltage detector

Environment, weather, moisture, humidity

• Actinometer

• Air pollution sensor

• Bedwetting alarm

• Ceilometer

• Dew warning

• Electrochemical gas sensor

• Fish counter

• Frequency domain sensor

• Gas detector

• Hook gauge evaporimeter

• Humistor

• Hygrometer

• Leaf sensor

• Lysimeter

• Pyranometer

• Pyrgeometer

• Psychrometer

• Rain gauge

• Rain sensor

• Seismometer

• SNOTEL

• Snow gauge

• Soil moisture sensor

• Stream gauge

• Tide gauge

• Weather radar

Flow, fluid velocity

• Air flow meter

• Anemometer

• Flow sensor

• Gas meter

• Mass flow sensor

• Water meter

Ionizing radiation, subatomic particles

• Bubble chamber

• Cloud chamber

• Geiger counter

• Geiger–Müller tube

• Ionization chamber

• Gaseous ionization detectors

• Neutron detection

• Particle detector

• Proportional counter

• Scintillator

• Scintillation counter

• Semiconductor detector

• Thermoluminescent dosimeter

• Wire chamber

Navigation instruments

• Airspeed indicator

• Altimeter

• Attitude indicator

• Depth gauge

• Fluxgate compass

• Gyroscope

• Inertial navigation system

• Inertial reference unit

• Machmeter

• Magnetic compass

• MHD sensor

• Ring laser gyroscope

• Sextant

• Turn coordinator

• Variometer

• Vibrating structure gyroscope

• Yaw-rate sensor

Position, angle, displacement, distance, speed, acceleration

• Accelerometer

• Auxanometer

• Capacitive displacement sensor

• Capacitive sensing

• Displacement sensor (general article)

• Flex sensor

• Free fall sensor

• Gravimeter

• Gyroscopic sensor

• Impact sensor

• Inclinometer

• Incremental encoder

• Integrated circuit piezoelectric sensor

• Laser rangefinder

• Laser surface velocimeter

• LIDAR

• Linear encoder

• Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT)

• Liquid capacitive inclinometers

• Odometer

• Photoelectric sensor

• Piezoelectric accelerometer

• Position sensor

• Position sensitive device

• Angular rate sensor

• Rotary encoder

• Rotary variable differential transformer

• Selsyn

• Shock detector

• Shock data logger

• Sudden Motion Sensor

• Tilt sensor

• Tachometer

• Ultrasonic thickness gauge

• Ultra-wideband radar

• Variable reluctance sensor

• Velocity receiver

• Magnetic sensor

Optical, light, imaging, photon

• Charge-coupled device

• CMOS sensor

• Angle–sensitive pixel

• 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

• Photomultiplier tube

• Phototransistor

• Photoelectric sensor

• Photoionization detector

• Photomultiplier

• Photoresistor

• Photoswitch

• Phototube

• Scintillometer

• Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor

• 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

• Piezocapacitive 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 thermometer

• Silicon bandgap temperature sensor

• Special sensor microwave/imager

• Temperature gauge

• Thermistor

• Thermocouple

• Thermometer

• Phosphor thermometry

• 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

• BioFET

• Biochip

• Biosensor

• Capacitance probe

• Capacitive sensing

• Catadioptric sensor

• Carbon paste electrode

• Digital sensors

• Displacement receiver

• Electromechanical film

• Electro-optical sensor

• Electrochemical fatigue crack sensor

• Fabry–Pérot interferometer

• Fiber Bragg grating

• Fisheries acoustics

• Image sensor

• Image sensor format

• Inductive sensor

• Intelligent sensor

• Lab-on-a-chip

• Leaf sensor

• Machine vision

• Microelectromechanical systems

• MOSFET

• 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

• Tapered element oscillating microbalance (TEOM)

• Transducer

• Ultrasonic sensor

• Video sensor

• Visual sensor network

• Wheatstone bridge

• Wireless sensor network

• Through-beam edge sensor

Speed sensor

Speed sensors are machines used to detect the speed of an object, usually a transport vehicle. They include:

• Wheel speed sensors

• Speedometers

• Pitometer logs

• Pitot tubes

• Airspeed indicators

• Piezo sensors (e.g. in a road surface)

• LIDAR

• Ground speed radar

• Doppler radar

• ANPR (where vehicles are timed over a fixed distance)

• Laser surface velocimeters for moving surfaces

• Bicycle speed sensors

Others

• Actigraphy

• Air pollution sensor

• Analog image processing

• Atomic force microscopy

• Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric Sensor

• Attitude control (spacecraft): Horizon sensor, Earth sensor, Moon sensor, Satellite 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

References

• Global List of Sensor Manufacturers List of commercial sensor manufacturers from around the world