EDN

Designer’s guide to accelerometers: choices abound

Also known as inertial sensors, accelerometers are critical elements in key applications such as automotive air-bag deployment, smartphone motion tracking, and industrial predictive maintenance. These ...
EDN

3-axis accelerometer sets low power benchmark for mobile devices

Norwood, Mass. — Analog Devices, Inc. today announced the availability of the ADXL330, the industry's lowest power 3-axis accelerometer for a wide assortment of portable consumer devices with small ...
Hackaday

TapType: AI-Assisted Hand Motion Tracking Using Only Accelerometers

The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of wrist-worn devices, that ...
Phys.org

A better way to measure acceleration

You're going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when a car barrels out of a driveway on your right. You slam on the brakes, and within a fraction of a second of the impact an airbag inflates, ...
Business Wire

Analog Devices’ 3-axis High-g MEMS Accelerometer Enables Highly Accurate Impact, Shock, and Concussive Detection Systems

ADI’s ADXL375 200-g digital MEMS accelerometer delivers more than twice the bandwidth at less than half the power consumption of competing sensors used to measure high-g events. NORWOOD, ...
Nature

Feasibility of the Energy Expenditure Prediction for Athletes and Non-Athletes from Ankle-Mounted Accelerometer and Heart Rate Monitor

Due to the nature of micro-electromechanical systems, the vector magnitude (VM) activity of accelerometers varies depending on the wearing position and does not identify different levels of physical ...
Business Wire

Analog Devices' 3-Axis MEMS Accelerometer Available Now; Sets Ultra-Low Power Consumption Benchmark

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2005--Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), innovating in MEMS technology for over a decade, today added a 3-axis accelerometer to its iMEMS(R) family of motion ...
Embedded

Tiny device combines accelerometer and temperature sensor

A tiny 3-axis MEMS accelerometer, the LIS2DTW12 from STMicroelectronics embeds a temperature sensor that boasts typical accuracy of 0.8°C. The device’s thin 2×2×0.7-mm LGA-12 plastic package allows it ...
Medical Xpress

Wearable accelerometer and vibrator 'thimble' could reduce falls amongst seniors

Japanese researchers have developed and tested a prototype device—wearable on the fingertips—that incorporates the concept of 'light touch' to enhance the sense of balance. If widely implemented, the ...
Nature

Quantifying finer-scale behaviours using self-organising maps (SOMs) to link accelerometery signatures with behavioural patterns in free-roaming terrestrial animals

Collecting quantitative information on animal behaviours is difficult, especially from cryptic species or species that alter natural behaviours under observation. Using harness-mounted tri-axial ...
Science Daily

A better way to measure acceleration

That's a higher sensitivity than all accelerometers now on the market with similar size and bandwidth. With further improvements, the NIST optomechanical accelerometer could be used as a portable, ...