Digital Sensors and Practice Integration

Digital sensors are all part of a well-designed practice integration system.




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What Are Digital Sensors?

What are digital sensors?  Digital sensors refer to an electronic device which uses digital means to transmit and convert data. The sensors are usually used to conduct analytical measurements involving chemical and physical properties of various liquids. The most used measurement parameters are conductivity, pH, redox potentials and oxygen among many others. The measurements are important in the industrial and medical field to give vital input for the purposes of process control. In the recent past, analogue sensors were used to conduct the measurements but in the recent technological world digital sensors have been produced and used. The traditional disadvantages of analog sensors stimulated the development of the sensors. The system in a digital sensor consists of a transmitter, a cable and the sensor itself.
Digital Sensor Diagnostic Area
The dimensions of sensor are very crucial to the diagnostic utility. The larger the image area or the active surface the more the information the sensor provides to the practitioner. The traditional 2 sixed film provides a large image or diagnostic area of about 1100mm2 while a scan X size 2 wireless digital sensor will produce a diagnostic area of 1080mm2.


Advantages of Digital Sensors

1. Unlike the analog sensors, a digital sensor has an electronic chip that enables the requisite signals to be converted directly into digitals signal inside the sensor.
2. The digital data transmitted inside the sensor is digital and it is not sensitive to cable resistance, length, impedance and the data is also not influenced by the electromagnetic noise. Therefore, the results from a digital sensor are quality and errors are minimal.
3. In the analog sensor, the related corrosion and humidity in the cable were a big issue to sensor performance. Digital sensors have wireless cable connections between the sensors done through inductive coupling. Therefore the improvement solved the humidity and corrosion issue.
4. It was not possible to perform long and electromagnetically hostile connections when using an analog sensor. For the digital sensors, there is an alternative of using compatible fibre optic cables to solve the problem.
5. Digital sensors can be calibrated apart from the entire system enabling distance performance and observations of the results.
6. Digital sensors are easy to use.
7. There is improved patient comfort especially to the people who have trauma over X-Ray radiation.
So as you can see, these sensors have several advantages.  For more information about our digital sensors or our dental software, give us a call.

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