How Does sensorFUSION Technology Help Micro-Hybrid’s INC5502D Inclination Sensors Perform at the Highest Level?

Micro-Hybrid offers a broad portfolio of inclination sensors designed for use in demanding environments.

These compact devices are integrated into outdoor systems and industrial machinery, where they must remain highly resistant to external influences. Despite harsh operating conditions, they need to deliver reliable and precise angle measurements. Vibrating equipment, sudden shocks, and mechanical impacts are all obstacles in these applications. Micro-Hybrid’s INC5502D sensor line is built to handle such challenges, making it exceptionally suited for industrial monitoring and predictive maintenance in laboratory use and field deployment. But how do these sensors handle compensating for disturbing forces such as vibration, centrifugal forces, and sudden shocks? The answer is SensorFUSION technology.

Practical Example: An Excavator Arm

Imagine monitoring the angle of an excavator arm. While determining the angle at which the arm is raised might seem like a relatively straightforward challenge, the reality is more complex. As the excavator moves, factors such as centrifugal forces and vibrations interfere with accurate readings, which have the potential to mislead the sensor and result in it reporting incorrect angles. Let’s look at a few examples.

-Centrifugal Force Compensation - For example, as the excavator’s upper body rotates, centrifugal force can confuse the signal even if the arm’s angle remains unchanged. The black line shows these misleading spikes. With a low-pass filter (green) and SensorFUSION (red), the INC5502D allows the sensor to compensate for this distortion.

-Shock Compensation - Sudden shocks such as stone impacts against the excavator arm can cause chaotic sensor readings, as seen here in the black line. Thanks to the intelligent sensorFUSION algorithm, the measurement signal remains stable and free of overshoots even during sudden movements

-Vibration Filtering - Engine vibrations in mobile machinery can distort readings as well. SensorFUSION blends out these disturbances, ensuring accurate and actionable information for machine operation.

Easy Integration and Adaptability The INC5502D sensors feature a slim design and flexible alignment options.

The flexibility of both wall-mounting and table-mounting is not a feature customers will find everywhere in the market. Micro-Hybrid simplifies installation on moving machinery such as construction equipment, agricultural vehicles, forestry machines, cranes, lifting platforms, and ships. The sensor's rugged design ensures an exceptionally wide field of use, with outstanding signal stability against fluctuating temperatures, magnetic fields, and mechanical stress.

Application-specific parameter sets are available on request. These presets are based on proven configurations tailored to standard use cases and can be transferred to the sensor using the sensorTOOL software, ensuring optimized performance for each application.

Contact the Micro-Hybrid team to learn more about how Micro-Hybrid’s INC5502D inclination sensors with sensorFUSION technology can deliver unmatched accuracy, stability, and reliability for your application. Whether you are monitoring heavy construction machinery, agricultural equipment, or industrial systems, our sensors ensure precise measurements even under the toughest operating conditions. We can tailor the right solution to your system requirements.