Advantages of PRT

The advantages of Pulse Ranging Technology (PRT) lie in the direct nature of the measurement methods, which achieve accurate, reliable and unambiguous measurements; accurate repeatability; as well as short response times.

Only industrial sensors with PRT achieve accurate, reliable, unambiguous and reproducible results regardless of ambient and object conditions such as surface condition, dark color or extraneous light.

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Due to short high-intensity light pulses, PRT measures over larger distances with greater accuracy than indirect measuring methods, such as phase correlation or chip-based processes. There is no drift of the measured value, even after prolonged periods of operation.

Compared with industrial sensors with light sources that are transmitting all the time, PRT provides a high degree of immunity to extraneous light by emitting discrete light pulses. As a direct consequence of this pulsing technology, the sensor is highly resistant to changes in the measurement path caused by environmental influences, such as mist, dust, etc. Several sensors can be used without mutual interference.

PRT is immune to interference from multiple targets in the measurement field. Objects in the far distance, outside the measuring range, are reliably suppressed. This guarantees that phantom objects are not detected.

Due to time determination, the hallmark of pulse ranging technology, the surface of the object has a negligible effect on measurement accuracy. “Black-white difference” is not an issue for PRT.

As opposed to triangulation, the measurement range of PRT does not rely on the geometrical layout of the optics. Industrial sensors with PRT, despite the relatively small housing, can be used for substantially larger measurement ranges and perfecly complement sensors with background suppression.