Sensors

Accurately measure the real world

Why TI for sensors?


From self-driving cars to smart homes, systems are increasingly making decisions based on the world around them. Leverage our portfolio of highly accurate sensors with quick response times to capture the necessary information to enable real-time control and autonomy in a wide range of end equipment.

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Explore our portfolio to see how our sensors can make your product visions a reality.

Humidity sensors

Create safer, more comfortable environments with relative humidity sensors


Optical sensors

Understand your surroundings with ambient light sensors, color sensors and proximity sensors


Magnetic sensors

Achieve maximum system performance with Hall-effect current sensors, latches, switches, single and multi-axis linear and angle sensors


Specialty sensors

Solve unique design challenges with our inductive sensor analog front ends (AFEs), ultrasonic AFEs and signal condtioners


mmWave radar sensors

Enable automotive and industrial sensing applications with long range, high resolution and edge AI


Temperature sensors

Monitor and protect your system with our large portfolio of temperature sensors

Advanced sensing technologies for accurate and reliable monitoring, protection and control

Our advanced sensing technologies help you design products for a range of applications, from electric vehicles (EVs) to industrial automation. With decades of experience, we offer both discrete and integrated solutions that enable high accuracy, low response times and uncompromising reliability.

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Achieve accurate and fast current sensing in every system

Whether you need to detect an overcurrent fault, improve system efficiency, or provide closed-loop feedback, TI's large portfolio of current-sensing solutions enables industry-leading accuracy for a range of common-mode voltages and temperatures – without sacrificing system size, complexity or cost. Through decades of experience, we have developed leading-edge current-sensing technology that empowers engineers to achieve maximum system performance, power efficiency and reliability.

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Low-power, highly accurate cost-optimized magnetic solutions for any system

Our magnetic sensing portfolio consists of switches, latches, and single and multiaxis linear and angle sensors for position-sensing applications. These sensors have capabilities such as open or close and on or off detection with switches, rotary encoding with latches, angle sensing with 3D linear sensors, and linear displacement measurement with 1D linear sensors. Through decades of experience, we have developed leading-edge magnetic-sensing technology that empowers engineers to achieve maximum system performance, power efficiency and reliability. Further your understanding of our magnetic sensors with top-notch evaluation tools, reference designs, application notes and simulation tools.

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Reliable, contactless, magnet-free inductive solutions for any system 

Our inductive sensor portfolio consists of devices that can offer benefits such as high resolution, low power, external magnetic field immunity, multiple channels, and wide frequency ranges. These devices can be used for a variety of applications including tamper detection, high speed rotational angle sensing, button pressing, incremental encoding, and metal proximity detection. We have developed leading-edge inductive-sensing technology that empowers engineers to achieve maximum system performance, accuracy, and reliability. Further your understanding of our inductive sensors with evaluation tools, reference designs, and application notes.

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Enhance your system with our ultrasonic sensors for level, proximity and distance measurements

Our ultrasonic sensor portfolio consists of devices that can offer benefits such as digital signal processing, configurability, diagnostics, high resolution, high accuracy and time-to-digital conversion. These devices can be used for a variety of applications including liquid level sensing, obstacle avoidance and presence detection. We have developed leading-edge ultrasonic-sensing technology that empowers engineers to achieve maximum system performance, accuracy and reliability. Further your understanding of our ultrasonic sensors with evaluation tools, reference designs, and application notes.

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Making mmWave radar attainable for new and existing industrial and automotive applications

Our broad portfolio of 60GHz and 77GHz radar sensors enables redefined and enhanced existing sensing applications, from low-power simple motion detection to high-end imaging radar. We help solve vision-sensing challenges in automotive and industrial applications across the globe with high-performance sensors that can withstand tough environmental conditions.

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Technical resources


Video series

Watch our video series where our experts teach you about temperature sensors, magnetic sensors and ambient light sensors to help you reduce design time and move quickly from proof-of-concept to production.


E-book
An Engineer's Guide to Temperature Sensing (Rev. A)
Learn about the design fundamentals of temperature sensing in real-world applications.
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E-book
An Engineer's Guide to Current Sensing (Rev. B)
Get a comprehensive library of application-specific current sensing design challenges and learn how to solve them.
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