Today’s smartphones utilize a wide array of accelerometers, gyroscopes and various other sensors in their designs. Relatively unknown is the barometric pressure sensor, which measures air pressure.

Barometric pressure sensors measure atmospheric pressure in a variety of applications, providing crucial data for weather forecasting, altitude measurement, and environmental monitoring. In the field ...

A tiny gel-infused package protects Bosch’s BMP384 barometric pressure sensor from the ingress of water, dust, and other contaminants. With dimensions of just 2×2×1 mm, this robust sensor is ...

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TDK Corp. is choosing CES 2018 this week in Las Vegas to highlight two new products: a new ultralow-noise MEMS microphone as well as an ultralow-noise and ultralow-power MEMS capacitive barometric ...

Many portable electronic devices, like smartphones and tablets, now include a built-in GPS receiver with a variety of mapping apps that can be used to detect the location or provide directions to ...

Apple recently launched the much-anticipated Apple AirPods Pro with noise-cancelling feature, making it the third iteration of the company’s true-wireless earphones. The company has now patented a new ...

I would like to obtain local barometric pressure data and figured my Samsung Galaxy S10e should be perfectly capable of doing this. Any suggestions for how to go about it. If there are no recommended ...

One of the sensors Apple added to its newest iPhones measures barometric pressure. That's handy to watch for local weather changes but it's even handier when the data from thousands of iPhone 6 and 6 ...

IKEA already has a side table that doubles as an air purifier, but now it has a way to gauge just how clean that air really is. The home store has introduced a smart indoor air quality sensor, the ...