New environmental sensor kits from ams enable easy prototyping of indoor air quality monitoring systems

Sensors Enable the Smart Home
Consumer acceptance and demand for “smart home” capabilities must be driven by the simplicity of use and perceived value those smart home services deliver. Real-time sensing is the critical touch-point behind delivering both simplicity and value, enabling the IoT’s “things” to deliver their service.

New small, low-power MOX VOC sensors: how might they be used for indoor air quality monitoring?
Stories in the news media are heightening people’s awareness of the importance of the quality of the air we breathe. The average human inhales about 15kg of air a day, 80% of it indoors. And while the quality of outdoor air is routinely monitored by public agencies, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring is the responsibility of the building’s operator. A new generation of small, surface-mount, low-power VOC (volatile organic compound) gas sensors offering the potential for distributed, local IAQ monitoring by small and affordable devices. This article explains the operation of these new VOC sensors and the differences between them and absolute single-gas sensors. It also shows how they can provide data which enables air management equipment to respond most efficiently and effectively to variations in indoor air quality.

New AS7261 color sensor from ams offers superior performance with lower BoM and assembly costs
Calibrated XYZ color sensor provides complete, integrated platform for handheld color analyzers, color calibration and mobile analysis devices

ams launches AS7225 tunable-white lighting smart system sensor
Sensor-driven system-on-a-chip lighting family expands to speed OEM and market adoption of variable-CCT and daylight-responsive LED lighting

Highly accurate relative humidity and temperature sensor IC from ams ideal for space- and power-constrained designs
ENS210 enables portable and connected smart home devices to improve performance and implement valuable new features

New environmental sensor kits from ams enable easy prototyping of indoor air quality monitoring systems
CCS811 and CCS801 evaluation kits with on-board relative humidity/temperature sensor are simple to set up and operate with PC-based user software

ams Launches AS7221 Spectral Tuning IoT Smart Lighting Manager
Extension to smart lighting manager family enables cost-effective, accurate, IoT-connected variable-CCT LED lighting

ams launches world’s first digital multispectral sensor-on-chip leveraging breakthrough wafer-level filter technology
AS7262 and AS7263 six-channel digital multispectral sensor ICs bring the lab to the sample to enable a revolution in consumer and industrial spectral analysis applications

New time-to-digital converter from ams offers industry-best combination of speed, precision and power
The ams TDC-GPX2 measures time intervals at a resolution of up to 10ps for ultra-accurate time-of-flight measurements in laser ranging and medical scanning applications

ams launches the industry’s smallest module to offer color, ambient light and proximity sensing
TMD3700 optical sensor module performance and small space requirements are optimal for next-generation mobile devices with ultra-thin profiles and narrow bezels

Next generation ams light sensors to shrink smart phone apertures up to 50%
TMD2620 proximity sensor and TMD2725 ALS modules reduce LED emitter-to-sensor gap to just 1.0mm while eliminating the effect of optical cross talk

Innovative gas sensors from ams enable new Cling VOC fitness wristband to measure indoor air quality and alcohol in breath
Cling VOC wristband from HiCling benefits from CCS801 and CCS803 sensors’ small size, high accuracy and very low power consumption

ams' new temperature sensor offers best-in-class combination of accuracy, ultra-low power consumption and small size
New AS6200 digital temperature sensor in 1.6 mm x 1mm package is easy to design into IoT, mobile and battery-powered applications

New magnetic position sensors for automotive applications support full ISO26262 safety compliance and provide System-in-Package (SiP) format
AS517x devices include full data path diagnostics and enhanced self-test capabilities to enable automotive systems to comply with the highest safety standards

Launch of ams’ tiny, cost-effective AS3412 opens up mass market opportunity for active noise cancellation
New AS3412 noise cancellation speaker driver is ideal for use in the bundled head-sets supplied with smartphones

ams introduces complete single-chip hardware and software solution for ultrasonic water flow metering

ams launches ultra-compact, efficient 200mA boost converter for products powered by a single-cell li-ion battery

ams introduces industry’s first total solution for 24/7 heart rate measurement for wearables
The AS7000, the first member of ams’ biosensor family, offers highest-accuracy, low power optical pulse rate measurement

New reference design board from ams for 48V lithium battery monitoring systems
Board provides complete solution for monitoring of high-side current as well as cell voltages and temperatures

New Eve home air-quality monitor from Elgato uses ams gas sensor for accurate VOC measurements
Tiny, low-power AS-MLV-P2 MEMS gas sensor helps Eve Room run for months on a small, replaceable battery

ams delivers industry’s first sensor module to integrate universal remote control, barcode emulation, color sensing, proximity and 3D gesture detection
Low-profile, optical sensor module reduces board space requirements and lowers smartphone BOM cost

High speed rotary position sensor from ams ideal for use in safety-critical automotive applications
New AS5147P position sensor IC offers magnetic stray field immunity and supports ISO26262 compliance programmes