Today’s manufacturing industry is highly dependent on sensors. Whether it is heavy industrial products or smaller consumer products – they are all more or less dependent on well-functioning sensors that control levels, presence, temperatures and pressures. Even in medical technology, sensors are used, for example, to measure EEG and ECG, to name only two areas of use.
The extensive spread of the IR sensor began in the 1950’s when industries expanded in size and gained a higher degree of automation. In this process, the sensor came to play a significant role in the development of the manufacturing industry, and so it does still today with the same principle.