QCE Digital Solutions Unit 3: Intelligent systems, sensors and actuators
Students learn how sensors, microprocessors and actuators work together in an intelligent system, and how analogue and digital signals move through its inputs and outputs.
One content description from the full QCE Digital Solutions Unit 3 — Interactions Between Users, Data and Digital Systems journey. All 15 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (15)
1
What an automated system is
2
What a sensor is
3
Matching sensors to the data they capture
4
Analogue sensor data and analogue-to-digital conversion
5
Microprocessor
6
Comparing a sensor reading with a stored value
7
Actuator
8
Feedback in an automated system
9
Sensors, microprocessor and actuator in a control system
10
Input devices
11
Output devices
12
Analogue versus digital input and output signals
13
Speaker
14
Choosing input devices, output devices and sensors together for a system
15
Describing how an automated system works
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