Ensuring regulatory compliance with smart sensor technology
Summary
Here, Richard Mount, Director of Sales at ASIC design and supply company Swindon Silicon Systems, explains how ASIC-driven smart sensors can help businesses maintain and prove regulatory compliance. Meeting these standards often requires extensive reporting on the part of the manufacturer, which may include historical data, detailed process methods, and maintenance logs. Implementing sensor technology into the shop floor can help, continuously measuring metrics such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and noise. Combining these sensors with IoT technologies means that this data can be accessed real-time, ensuring operators can pick up faults almost immediately and take necessary action. But to give smart sensors a technical and competitive edge, opting for a custom Application Specific IC, or ASIC instead can elevate sensing technology to the next level.