A California company, Sportwall International, is similarly developing long-distance versions of racket sports, basketball and baseball by incorporating digital sensors and microprocessors into walls or mounted targets.
Haptic devices may incorporate tactile sensors that measure forces exerted by the user on the interface.
Larger, medium-risk areas can be monitored by scanning towers that incorporate fixed cameras and sensors to detect smoke or additional factors such as the infrared signature of carbon dioxide produced by fires.
Such mines incorporate electronic sensors designed to detect the presence of a vessel and detonate when it comes within the blast range of the warhead.
Developed in 1996, it incorporates computer and electrical wiring, lighting, motion-detection sensors, and sprinklers into the chilled beam unit.
The clock incorporates two motors and sophisticated sensors which communicate the position of the hands to the computer.
They incorporate advanced sensors, robotics, and computer simulation and control technologies in an integrated package and tackle a number of unique challenges in trying to address specific industrial needs.
Applying the latest technology, Dr. Gunn designed an electronic camera incorporating sensors known as charge coupled devices to be mounted on the Palomar telescope.
One day, these units may also incorporate seismic sensors.
The exploder in the Mk 67 warhead is computerised and incorporates magnetic, acoustic and pressure sensors.