Maxim’s Santa Cruz (MAXREFDES23#) reference design is the world’s smallest IO-Link® light sensor compliant with IEC 61131-9. The Santa Cruz has six different types of sensors: ambient light (clear), ...

An overwhelming majority of handheld devices these days have ambient light sensors built into them. A large percentage of TVs and monitors do, too, and that proportion is growing. The sensors allow ...

Since the backlight of the LCD panel in a smartphone accounts for around 40% of the device’s total power consumption, one can benefit greatly by adjusting the brightness in response to changes in ...

The TCS3448 is a 14-channel highly versatile, multi-purpose spectral light sensor. It is optimized to sense spectral components of ambient light in the visible range. Such spectral information is used ...

Joining Keyence’s sensor lineup is the LR-T series of multipurpose laser sensors, which employs the time-of-flight detection method to achieve reliable detection over long or short distances, ...