Modular sensor assembly including removable sensing module

摘要

A modular sensor assembly (10) in which a sensing module (14) may be packaged and provided separately from a signal processing module (16) and which, in some applications, may facilitate disposal and/or replacement of the sensing module (14) when exposed to a "dirty" or "contaminated" environment without requiring disposal and/or replacement of the entire sensor assembly (10). In certain applications, the sensing module (14) may include at least one transducer or sensor (18) and a local memory (30) containing a set of conditioning coefficients. The sensing module (14) may be removably coupled to a signal processing module (16) which, in some cases, may be configured to download the set of conditioning coefficients stored in the local memory (30) of the sensing module (14), and to use the set of conditioning coefficients to produce a substantially linearized output signal.