Opportunities for Sensors in Home Appliances - Sensor TOE

This Sensor TOE profiles innovations, opportunities, and needs for sensors in home appliances including Hall-enhanced extraordinary magnetoresistance sensors, wearable magneto-inductive sensors, ultrasound haptics, and plant cell incubators for producing food ingredients.

Sensor TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) captures global sensor-related innovations and developments on a weekly basis. Innovations are directed toward developing smart and intelligent sensors with functionalities beyond sensing. Research focus areas include: low power sensors (energy harvesting), industrial automation sensors (M2M, vision sensor), ubiquitous sensor (WSN, sensor fusion), smart sensors (wearables, quantified self), high sensitivity and smaller size (MEMS, nanosensors), and improved security (CBRNE, terahertz).

The need for low power, smaller, lighter sensors with enhanced performance attributes and minimal false alarms is driving innovations in the sensors space. The Sensors and Control cluster covers innovations pertaining to technologies such as wireless sensors and networks, energy harvesting, haptics and touch, MEMS and nanosensors, Terahertz, ubiquitous/smart sensors, CBRNE, quantified-self, sensor fusion, M2M communications, and drones.

Keywords: Hall sensors, magnetoresistance sensors, ultrasound, haptics, plant cell incubator, bioreactor, cell culture, refrigerator, washing machine, microwave oven, stove, food ingredients