Problems of Sensors with a View to Digital Twins: A Review of the Literature

Góngora-Biachi, Gabriel; Marmolejo-Saucedo, José Antonio

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-94630-1_3

Problems of Sensors with a View to Digital Twins: A Review of the Literature

Journal

EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing

Publisher

Springer Nature Switzerland

Date Issued

2026

Author(s)

Góngora-Biachi, Gabriel

Marmolejo-Saucedo, José Antonio

Facultad de Ingeniería - CampGDL

Type

Book chapter

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-94630-1_3

URL

https://scripta.up.edu.mx/handle/20.500.12552/13127

Abstract

This work presents a theoretical approach to sensors as components of digital twins. It seeks to know the different types of sensors used in factories and their problems with a view to being one of the information input mechanisms of digital twins. The most commonly used sensors were identified as distance, humidity, position, pressure, proximity, sound, temperature, speed, magnetic, and light sensors. Thus, this chapter briefly describes the main characteristics of these sensors and highlights the problems that different authors have reported, with a view to being considered when integrating them into the digital twin. The problems identified in the literature by types of sensors are classified to identify their recurrence. Kendall’s coefficient of agreement was applied to look for similar problems between different types of sensors. The results showed little agreement, with technical results being the most frequent, followed by physical and environmental results. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.