Sensata Technologies provides portfolio of “green” sensors that help protect health and benefit the environment


Sensata Technologies B.V. is producing a portfolio of sensors that help solve some of the world’s toughest environmental problems.

This is not new for this engineering and manufacturing firm based in Attleboro, Massachusetts. In fact, this 92-year-old global company has been producing devices that aid the environment for three decades.

What is new are several key products it recently developed that help to combat troublesome air pollutants and global warming, and boost energy efficiency.

In June 2008, Sensata’s Doug Strott presented a paper about these environmentally friendly products at Sensors Expo, one of the sensors industry’s largest annual conferences. Strott and colleagues Michael Blaney and Dave Field teamed to write that paper entitled “Robust Design Enables Pressure Sensors for ‘Greener’ Technologies.” Blaney is a marketing representative and Field is a design engineer.

Blaney said recently, “At Sensors Expo, we discussed how higher energy costs will impact companies’ products. We explained that we have low-cost sensor technologies that companies need to help them deal with rising fuel costs and the greenhouse effect of their products.”

Strott, an engineering manager, outlined environmental challenges that several industries face. One is stricter emissions standards scheduled to phase in between 2010 and 2014 for diesel vehicles. Another is the need to reduce fuel consumption by boosting efficiency and reliability. Additionally, appliance makers face a continually tougher mandate to produce more energy-efficient equipment.