Introductory Chapter: Temperature Sensing - The Book

Abstract

Temperature is the most often-measured environmental quantity, and temperature sensors can be found just about everywhere. They are present at our homes, schools, workplaces, cars, busses, airplanes, home appliances, and electrical devices. They are being used in environmental monitoring and various industrial, medical, and biological applications for process monitoring and control. Scientists are continuously improving ways of temperature sensing, and list of temperature sensor applications grows longer every day. Our idea was to invite scientists from different parts of the world to share their knowledge, ideas, and research results in the field of temperature sensing. Thanks to their efforts, readers are given an opportunity to learn more about temperature sensing based on optical fiber sensing technology and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy, industrial applications of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy, and last but not least about temperature measurements in machining of aluminum alloys.