Perhaps the most familiar temperature sensor to many people is the fever thermometer used to determine if one’s body temperature is out of the normal range. It generally indicates the presence of a fever or systemic infection, if higher than normal, and something perhaps even more serious, if much lower than the norm.
In recent years the use of electronic fever thermometers has become widespread and the Infrared Ear Thermometer, pioneered by Dr. Jacob Fraden , The Inventor of the brand named device Braun’s “Thermoscan (TM)” has become readily available and widely used in medical facilities and in the home.
There are many other uses of temperature sensors in biology and medicine and we’ll be expanding this section as the inputs are received.
In the interim, note that FOOD SAFETY has been moved to its own area of the measurement topics list
