Smart Sensors

HBK´s smart sensors enable new possibilities for machine digitisation, smart manufacturing processes, and monitoring solutions – thanks to their integrated signal-processing capabilities and standardised bidirectional communication interfaces.

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HBK's IO-Link Sensors help you digitalise your industrial processes

Smart features and IO-Link technology provide enhanced accuracy, reliability and efficiency while reducing costs. Discover HBK's force, load and torque sensors.

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Analogue to digital to smart

Smart sensors are ‘smart’ because of their ability to provide the necessary results that the underlying machine, process or system requires to function – in many cases eliminating the need to process the continuous measurement data in the PLC. This shift in concept enables decentralisation and allows innovative new system architectures for devices, machines, and manufacturing – plus testing processes and monitoring solutions.

Generate a continuous output signal but have limited signal-conditioning capabilities.

Smart sensors feature built-in microprocessors with signal preprocessing functions to analyse, interpret and perform domain-specific calculations, thus providing results and enabling real-time decision making.

Convert measured physical values into discrete binary values, enabling digital filtering and scaling.

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Smart sensor elements

Accuracy, intelligence and connectivity

Smart sensors integrate the sensing element, the signal processing and a communication interface into one single unit.

They enhance precision by performing linearisation and compensation algorithms, thereby drastically reducing measurement uncertainty. HBK’s expertise spans a wide range of sensor domains – from strain, force and torque to sound and vibration. Utilising this domain-specific knowledge, our solutions feature signal-processing algorithms covering both the time and frequency domains, allowing smart sensors to perform fit-to-purpose calculations and self-health monitoring tasks.

Proven communication interfaces such as IO-Link, CAN-Bus and Industrial Ethernet protocols enable easy integration into any OT and IT-level applications.

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Sensing Elements
Embedded Analytics
Communication Interfaces

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Sensing elements

Track proven sensors
Time and frequency domain
Quality and precision

Outstanding accurate and robust sensors. Results you can trust under any circumstances and harsh environments.

Accuracy

Extended measurement range
Compensation algorithms
EMV resistance

Accuracy saves cost: higher accuracy enables a wider measurement range, less sensors are required, and spare parts are managed more efficiently. Challenging measurements demand higher precision.

Embedded analytics

Condition indicators
Sensor health monitoring
Field-level insights

Providing early warnings when critical operating conditions are detected increases machine uptime and reduces unnecessary servicing, improving your cost efficiency.

Signal processing

Additional information
Smart functions
Domain-specific-algorithms

Save calculation and data capacity in the PLC. The sensor delivers application specific results and/or the measuring values, just as required. More information from the field-level provides a good basis for understanding machines.

Communication interfaces

Bidirectional communication
Standardised interfaces
Fieldbus independent

Leveraging open standards allows for easy integration into different system architectures. Proven communication protocols are utilised: Industrial Ethernet, IO-Link, Wireless, CAN and more.

Standardised cables and components

Cheap unshielded cables
Standardised commissioning software
OTS components

Standardised unshielded cables and OTS components significantly reduce costs. Utilising open protocols enables efficient, centralised sensor parametrisation and reduces commissioning time.

Discover HBK's smart sensor solutions

Our expertise covers a wide range of mechanical sensor domains; from strain, force and torque to sound and vibration – and optical fibers.

We use our domain-specific signal-processing knowledge for both the time and frequency domains, enabling our sensors to perform application-specific calculations and monitoring tasks. These are known as ‘smart functions’ and ‘condition indicators’.

HBK’s smart sensors can be strain gauge-based, use piezoelectric crystals, or incorporate MEMS. They feature proven, open-standard bidirectional communication protocols such as IO-Link, CAN-MD®, or Industrial Ethernet, ensuring easy and efficient OT and IT system integration.

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IO-Link

HBK’s IO-Link sensors are available for the force, load and torque domains.

All HBK IO-Link sensors feature integrated sensor-health-monitoring that tracks the sensor-specific static and dynamic load as well as thermal limits. If exceeded, the sensor triggers an event.

The IO-Link interface enables efficient and fieldbus-independent system integration, all while minimising downtime and maintenance costs – and enhancing your operational efficiency.

CAN-MD®

CAN-MD® is a digital sensor platform that processes raw analogue data inside each sensor on the machine, enabling a bussed architecture that delivers actionable results, not just raw data.

It is a flexible solution and expands to multiple sensor domains and solution expansions, such as software and cloud integration.

The solution is based on high-quality, high-precision digital accelerometers. The solution is tailored for vibration monitoring applications but also works for any other type of monitoring scenario.

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