A fabless semiconductor start-up in Ireland, which was previously unknown to Electronics Weekly, has a wireless chip that also senses.
The firm, ChipSensors, has a chip which senses temperature, humidity, some gases and pathogens. The firm says:
The 0.13µm sensor chip has obvious applications as an all-electronic replacement for the type of electromechanical thermostats and humidistats used in building management and environmental monitoring systems. ChipSensors is also currently developing an ultra-low-power wireless version of this sensor - which integrates all the signal conditioning, microcontroller, memory and RF transceiver functions onto the same chip as the sensor itself - for incorporation into passive and active ID tags.