# List of sensors

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
* Oil level sensor
* Oil pressure sensor
* Omniview technology
* Oxygen sensor (O$_2$)
* 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
* 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

## 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