Sensors and the analytical process

PRELIMINARY S. OPERATIONS SIGNAL MEASURING AND TRANSDUCING DATA ACQUISITION AND TREATMENT RESULTS ACCORDING TO SPECIFICATIONS 

simplification clearly facilitates automation and miniaturization, and miniaturization assists automation. 

GENERIC ADVANTAGES OF (BIO)CHEMiCAL SENSORS AS REGARDS THE ANALYTICAL PROCESS 

Any powerful technology has two faces. In fact, the adverse connotations of nuclear power (e.g. atomic bombs, radioactive pollution) are offset by important positive applications (e.g. in nuclear medicine). Sensors have two opposing faces as well. On the one hand, they make a major choice for the Analytical Chemistry of the XXI century on the other, the ease with which they can output signals (and hence results) may induce careless (non-contrasted) use and obtainment of spurious analytical information, particularly in the hand of non-experts (e.g. physicians, engineers) obviously lacking 

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