Every position sensor serves a specific function needed in today’s advanced technological situation. Position sensors can detect motion in a linear path, even the angular ones. With tilt sensors, position sensors of this type measure the tilt with reference to a plane on an axis or multiple axes of an object. Tilt sensors consist of a ball mechanism that moves two pins thus turning the device on or off. A movement in the sensor to a specific angle results in the turning off or turning on of the sensor. With this design, tilt sensors have become crucial and well-integrated into the functions of many machines we see day to day. Listed here are machines that you probably may not know have a tilt sensor in them.
Security systems in vehicles
Several alarms systems in vehicles, be they large or small, are based on the use of tilt sensors. Whenever there is an unauthorised vehicle attempting to tow your car, the tilt sensor engages the alarm that then produces an electric signal, prompting the warning siren to make loud sounds.
Airplanes
In monitoring horizontal and vertical inclinations of aircrafts such as airplanes, helicopters, and jets, tilt sensors form an altitude monitoring system. This function allows pilots to make stunts and rotary movements with their aircraft.
Robots
Robots need balance, especially to walk or at least stand up. In helping to give details on the corresponding inclination of robots to specific directions when moving, tilt sensors send electrical signals.
Portable computers
Ever wondered why no matter which direction you move your mobile gadget, its display still stays in the correct position with the way you hold it? That is because of tilt sensors. Tilt sensors allow the alignment of computers to the direction of the user’s hands. With this design, motion-based gaming devices, such as gaming controllers, are also based on tilt sensors.
Tilted trains
High-speed trains found in subways that run on standard railway tracks tend to lean. When a train meets the point where the railway track has bends, the train exerts force to resist the direction of the gravitational force. In other words, the train pulls itself towards the opposite direction of the curve – where the gravitational force is heading. The movement of the train pulling itself allows the train to continue travelling at high speed all the while ensuring the safety of the passengers aboard. The measurement of the angle of inclination on such bends is done by tilt sensors perceiving the degree of tilt and sending this information to a processing unit.
As seen in the list provided, when a device is versatile in its functions, it becomes integrated into machines that we often use in our daily life. And the proof of this happening is tilt sensors being put in almost every machine we hold. These sensors serve many purposes, and without them, modern equipment would not be able to function with such high accuracy and quality.
