Self-Powered Sensors Will Detect Impact Damage

An EADS Innovation Works-led consortium is developing energy-autonomous sensors to embed in aircraft skins to detect impact damage. The sensors draw energy from the difference in temperatures of the air outside and in the passenger cabin. Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working with Micropelt to...

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