Dynamic Sensor Verification for Microwave Bale Moisture Imaging

Sensors utilized in process control are one of today’s modern factory’s biggest assets as well as cause for concern when the sensors malfunction and a faulty reading destroys the quality of the product the sensor was designed to preserve.  To ensure this doesn’t happen, some form of quality control, to ensure the sensor is operating correctly, is required.  This research reports on a new method, for use in microwave bale moisture sensing, that allows the sensor to dynamically self-verify that the readings it is obtaining are accurate and that the system is operating correctly.