Vehicles, appliances and even toys now leverage seamless internet connectivity and take advantage of many innovative sensing technologies that were once considered too expensive to add to standard product configurations or excessive. Robber sensing technologies are credited with real-time “driver-assist” decision-making in today’s automobiles. That’s above and beyond the hundreds already controlling and optimizing the vehicle’s efficiency and the occupants’ comfort. While components of industrial control systems for many years, sensors were considered part of the “black box” and little attention was paid to their stand-alone usefulness.  Devices are smarter, can connect to the internet, often wirelessly, and are becoming less expensive and easier to integrate. 

Join Jason Low, senior manufacturing engineering specialist at NC State University Industry Expansion Solutions, for an introduction to commercial, off-the-shelf sensing technologies that can help you unearth and share essential production data or assist you in becoming your own integrator-of-things without the integrator price tag.