Surveyors Use Reed Sensors to Accurately Measure Linear Distance

Introduction

For many years surveyors’ essential piece of equipment was and still is their measuring distance device called the surveyors wheel. Most plots of land are precisely broken up into parcels of land in a very accurate manner, particularly in residential areas where every foot or meter needs to be accounted for. Often squabbles occur between residents with the only way to resolve them is the accurate pacing off of the plot distances by an accurate measuring device and a competent surveyor. Often these measuring devices used a walking device having a wheel that translates circular motion into a linear distance. These devices used a mechanical means to establish the distance. These mechanical devices did not always prove reliable and would often fail at the most inappropriate times. Designers have now chosen Standex Electronics’s reed sensors as an inexpensive way to accurately measure the linear distance in a very reliable manner.

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