Sensor

Supertype: Component

Definition: Component that responds to a physical stimulus and transmits a resulting impulse or value from a sensing unit.

Version Info

Introduced	Deprecated	Updated
1.2

Documentation

Description

If modeling individual sensors, then sensor should be associated with the Component that the measured value is most closely associated.

When modeled as an Auxiliary, sensor SHOULD represent an integrated sensor unitintelligent piece of equipment that manages the signals of one or more sensing elements and provides the measured values. system that provides signal processing, conversion, and communications. A sensor unitintelligent piece of equipment that manages the signals of one or more sensing elements and provides the measured values. may have multiple sensing elementsmechanism that provides a signal or measured value..

See SensorConfiguration for more details on the use and configuration of a Sensor.

Inherited Properties

Name	Type	Int	Dep	Multiplicity	Description
id	ID	1.2		1	unique identifier for the Component.
name	string	1.2		0..1	name of the Component. When provided, Component::name MUST be unique for all child Component entities of a parent Component.
nativeName	string	1.2		0..1	common name associated with Component.
sampleInterval	float	1.2		0..1	interval in milliseconds between the completion of the reading of the data associated with the Component until the beginning of the next sampling of that data. This information may be used by client software applications to understand how often information from a Component is expected to be refreshed. The refresh rate for data from all child Component entities will be the same as for the parent Component element unless specifically overridden by another Component::sampleInterval provided for the child Component.
sampleRate	float	1.2	1.2	0..1	DEPRECATED in MTConnect Version 1.2. Replaced by Component::sampleInterval.
uuid	ID	1.2		0..1	universally unique identifier for the Component.
coordinateSystemIdRef	ID	1.8		0..1	specifies the CoordinateSystem for this Component and its children.

Inherited Relations

Name	Type	Int	Dep	Multiplicity	Description
hasDescription	Description	1.2		0..1
hasComposition	Composition	1.4		0..*
hasComponent	Component	1.2		0..*
hasConfiguration	Configuration	1.2		0..1
observes	DataItem	1.2		0..*
madeObservation	Observation	1.2		0..*
hasReference	Reference	1.3		0..*
hasComponentStream	ComponentStream	1.2		0..1
isComponentOf	Component	1.2		0..*

Subclasses

Name	Int	Dep
Thermostat	1.0	1.2
Vibration	1.0	1.2