These add-on modules might be designed for measuring vibration, temperature or displacement in fields where precision is important, such as agriculture, aviation and the medical field.

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Image quality is checked, along with other functions, before the camera heads to temperature and vibration testing in a sealed chamber.

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Twine itself is a block of plastic containing an accelerometer (which senses motion or vibration), a temperature sensor and a processor much like Botanicalls.

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