MATERIAL AND OPERATIONAL PROPERTIES OF LARGE-AREA MEMBRANE TYPE SENSORS FOR SMART ENVIRONMENTS
Abstract
Certain plastic film materials can be used as sensitive tactile and impact sensors covering large surfaces. In surveillance and health care applications they can sense movement, activity or some physiological parameters. Various available film materials and their operational principles are reviewed. Comparison has been made between piezoelectric polymer film, thin porous electret material, and soft capacitive film materials in their sensing capabilities. Generation of the signal and measurement instrumentation for different sensor configurations is discussed. The structure and properties of a voided polypropylene film material and some applications and measurement results are presented. It can be shown that especially in large area applications the electret type porous films show several benefits when compared with the other solutions.
Event details
- Event
- XVII IMEKO World Congress
- Place
- Dubrovnik, CROATIA
- Time
- 22 June 2003 - 28 June 2003
- Website
- http://www.hmd.hr/imeko/